Welcome to the sky

Today we continued working on Jack and the beanstalk from where we left off which was jack on his way home to show his mum the beans. In this scene there is just Jack (Tom) and the Mum (Ashley), this starts with mum cleaning the house in a very camp fashion as jack enters. mum asks "have you sold the cow yet?", jack says yes, so mum rushes over but is shocked to find beans in Jacks hand instead of money. Jack's mum then takes the beans and throws then out the window. The next scene is where Jack discovers the beanstalk and decides to climb it with help from the children by teaching them a chant ("Climb the stalk"). Jack reaches the top of the beanstalk and meets a stranger who relies that Jack is a new person so he calls all of us on stage to sing a song. this song was inspired by "Shrek's Duloc" song:

"Welcome to the sky, such a perfect place,

Stay right where you are, we will tie your lace,

Have no fear, its time for fun, come and play with everyone,

This is a perfect place.

Just keep off of the grass, shine your shoes, wipe your…. Face.

The sky is…. The sky is……. The sky is a perfect place."

 

After the song we all then tell jack that he should never go in the castle, then we all march off merrily to the tune of the song we just sung. Narration then takes over the scene as Jack runs into the castle and the narrator describes all the things he sees like giant pieces of rubbish and furnisher. Jack hides which then starts the scene I was given to create at the start of our project.

(The ground shakes with loud bangs to the ground)

Narrator: Then the ground started to shake with a loud bang was moving closer to Jack, in fear Jack hide as he heard a mighty and powerful voice.

Giant: Fe Fi Fo Fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman!

Narrator: Jack shaked with fear as he hide from the Giant

Giant: Fe Fi Fo Fum, I want to taste this Englishman in my tum!

(Jack looks up from behind his cover to gaze at the Giant)

Jack: The Giants going to eat me, I need to get out of here.

Giant: Fe Fi Fo Fum, I think the Englishman wants to run!

Narrator: Jack looked for a way to get out but there was nowhere to go, nowhere to run.

Giant: Fe Fi Fo Fum, I can’t see any Englishman!

Narrator: the Giant walked away. So Jack went to run away but the hears a noise of goose above him.

This was as far as we managed to get with our performance today. we have managed to stage a lot of Jack and the beanstalk so if we can continue with the commitment we are showing towards this production we should finish jack in the next couple of lessons. For my part of Jack's mother I am looking into how to stylize her for the show by looking at similar characters like "Edna Turnblad" from "Hairspray". If I am able to capture the characteristics of this character I believe it will better my performance as Jacks mother.