Steven & Susanna's GH concert photos and news

Prologue: Note: Steven and Susanna Kwan's Malaysian Genting Highlands Concert Day 1 Thursday (8/21/2014) opened to a full house and ended its last show on a high note with another sold-out concert. The auditorium seats about 3000. Apparently per jv entertainment weibo, Steven and Susanna's concert is the first time ever that GH Resort World held a 3-day concert. The concert is organized as a kick-off event for GH RW's 50th anniversary next year.

Oddly enough Susanna Kwan and Steven Ma’s first time collaboration is not to film a tv series together but to hold a joint concert in Malaysia instead.  Steven said it is his first time holding a concert in Malaysia.  The duo besides singing also invited random fans to get on the stage to sing, among them was a woman dressed in a polka-dot outfit, at seeing her Steven jested, "Siu Fung Jie is here!" (tn: in reference to HK singer, Paula Tsui 徐小鳳 in her 'famed' polka-dot stage costumes)

Thinking he had the Malaysian language down pat, Steven steps onto the stage and greets his audience: “Dai ka hou, Terima kasih!” (Audience: That’s “thank you!”) It’s not“How are you?”  Coached by the audience, Steven greets his audience, “Apa khabar?”  Seeing that the group of randomly selected uncles and aunties were unafraid to sing on stage, Steven quips to Susanna: “They sang so well, we should leave!” Susanna says: “We called them onto the stage to give them a present, but since they could sing so well they should give us presents instead.”  When presenting his signed photos to them, a fan asks Steven if the photos were taken when he was 18 years old, eliciting Steven’s pleased response: “They were taken yesterday.”  When a male fan requests Steven to sing the theme song of the TV series, “The Pride of Chaozhou 《我来自潮州》, Steven chuckles and says: “That’s an ATV tv series, don’t get confused. Haha! Not that it matters!”

Even though this is Steven’s first time performing on stage in Malaysia, his series of quips amused his audience greatly making them happy. After singing a series of tv theme songs, Steven then asks the audience if they liked his singing, he says: “If like, then applause loudly; if not, applause even louder. Haha!”

Steven has been in the industry for 20 years but he still maintains his looks very well, he says: “Still can deceive people ba! (tn: appearance)  In 1993 I participated in a singing competition. When debuted as singer, I released three music albums but they did not sell well. Then Lee Tim Sing and Catherine Tsang asked me to do a screen test for a tv series.  I didn’t know how to act then.  I was a singing competition champion but I had failed 43 times prior. Gradually my focus shifted from singing to filming mostly ancient period dramas because they thought that the shape of my head was suitable for ancient dramas.” When asked about the change in his collaboration mode with TVB, Steven says with gratitude towards TVB:  “Even though our collaboration mode is different but you all still can see me. TVB is my alma mater.”

Recalling singing Jackie Cheung’s “Lee Heong Lan”《李香兰》, Steven narrates: “At the time, my teacher said if not handsome but wanted to win then must pick a difficult song to sing”.   Purposely a leading remark to fish for compliments from the audience, Steven tries again and says "I know I’m not handsome" but the audience remains silent, so he says coyly: “Give some response ma!  I’d hoped to elicit your saying ‘not so’. You all don’t know how to sweet-talk...”  After that he mentions he has released a music album last year and this year too, and that he has written a separate song for his parents. Tonight he especially sings the song written for his father,《爸士》.

Songs:
1st day:  想飞 / 曾经几许 / 水中仙 / 爸士 / 天意/ 海滩 + 新鸳鸯蝴蝶梦 + 戏班小子 / 李香兰 / 月亮代表我的心 / 不了情 + 新不了情 .

2nd day: 《心照》《往事只能回味》《明天會更好》《曾經幾許》replaced 1st night's《巴士》《月亮代表我的心》《在雨中》

3rd day: 《漫步人生路》

Duet with Susanna: 在雨中 / 两忘烟水里
Susanna: 为我献上心韵 / 永远守着他 + 甜蜜蜜 + 我只在乎你 + 千言万语 + 梦如人生 / 无心害你 / 万千宠爱 / 讲不出声

News source
source2; source3

For enlarged pix goto weibo link

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credit bottom pix sources as labeled. Crop out person from pix to ensure their privacy.
Some said they staked out at his hotel lobby (Genting Grands) to take pix with him.

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sources: GH RW weibo photo album 云顶世界; mobmusic weibo
credit all pix as labeled,
more pix link1; link2; sm fb