 Together with composer Dick Lee, conductor and musician Jason Voo, music producer Roslan Aziz and arts students from the Universiti Teknologi MARA, they held a 10-day workshop for the musical, working on the script and songs.Following the workshop, Saw, who had been invited to direct the production, bowed out due a conflicting project.Writers Zahim and Adlin became the director and co-director respectively.