In rehearsals for the "cart drum" part, Ho Lo's actors, versed only in the more rigid and structured gestures of Taiwanese opera, could not at first attain the soft and curving postures typical of the cart drum performance. Some of the actors looked like they were dancing the cha-cha, while others, messing up their footwork or gestures, moved like zombies.
排練場中，熟悉「仔架」（作功亮相）的歌仔戲演員，一時做不來車鼓小戲柔軟妖撓的姿態，有的像在跳恰恰，有的錯了腳步手勢還硬掰的樣子，活像僵屍。