Pancake learns a 'foreign' language
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"Lamsing Singer" - the first venture onto the theatre stage by movie studio GTH - has involved a lot of hard work for its star, Kemmanij "Pancake" Chamikorn - and also her maids at home.
The Channel 7 actress will be speaking in the Isaan dialect onstage, so as well as rehearsing the lingo and luk thung songs with director Piyakorn “Mook” Budprasert, she’s chatting more than usual with her maids from the Northeast.
Like other television and film actors who’ve made the leap, Pancake has realised how much tougher it is performing onstage. It doesn’t help that she’ll be up there live, without a safety net, alongside experienced stage entertainers like Nantida Asavahem, Direk “Tu” Amartayakul and Panisara “Opal” Pimpru.
Pancake expects to be basically living at the Rachadalai Theatre for the month before the comedy opens on December 21 but, regardless of all the challenges, she’s thrilled to have this opportunity. “I used to think it was such a far-fetched dream,” she says, “but now I have a chance.”
Marathon man
Yuthana “Pa Ted” Boonorm is looking slimmer these days, and not because of all the effort he’s putting into his annual Big Mountain Music Festival, coming up on December 8 and 9 at Bonanza Khao Yai.
Pa’s gone all fit on us since signing up with Thai Health Promotion. He had to do a lot of running to be ready for Thai Health Day Run, its 10-kilometre marathon held last Sunday from the Royal Plaza.
He proudly posted a photo on Instagram of himself at the starting line, saying he was ready to roll. He must have been – he’d been jogging five kilometres around his moo baan every morning for months. Rooting for him were his wife Kay and daughter. “I always praise him and told our daughter all about it so he could be proud of himself,” Kay says.
Pa’s family cheerleaders got him around the circuit no problem, keeping pace with much younger celebrities including his pal Atiwara “Toon” Bodyslam.
