December Rains (Chinese: 雨季; pinyin: Yǔ jì) is the first original Mandarin musical written by veteran songwriter Liang Wern Fook[1] and Jimmy Ye, directed by theatre director Alec Tok[2] and producer James Toh.
[5][6] December Rains follows a pair of students heavily devoted to their motherland, China during a tumultuous period of social disorder and violent riots in 1950s’ Singapore.
Protagonists, Ying Xiong and Li Qing navigate through the aforementioned obstacles in this heartwarming coming-of-age musical as audiences witness their budding, tragic love story.
"[7] Mayo Martin of Today said the reproduction in 2010 "has an affinity with productions like Miss Saigon and Les Misérables" and Goh Boon Teck had succeeded in "constructing a visually elegant tale".
[12] In 2015, Ng Yi-Sheng of The Straits Times said the second reproduction "holds up magnificently as a classic work of Singaporean theatre" and "arguably more moving than the recent deluge of historical musicals".