Whole Show Practice Part 1

Today we started to work on our whole children's theatre piece in order starting with our opening with Freya, Toby, Tom and Meg where Toby and Freya are boring the children as teachers so Meg and Tom enter. we changed this so as they enter saying they have the book we all start saying "They have the book" while scattered across the audience. The rest stayed the same as we got to end of the opening and started Little Red. Little Red was a good run through as we didn't have to stop and go over any of the scenes more than once as I showed we had clearly practice this number but  when we reached the end of the Little Red run we we're told that some of us need to show more energy so that we would have a better chance of getting a reaction out of the children with our performance. We were then suppose to move on to the transition to for Goldilock but we skipped these two as we didn't have time to set up silhouette this lesson so we said we would do it next lesson and as we didn't do Goldilock we skipped the transition. We also skipped the Jack and the beanstalk transition as we wanted to focus on jack as it is the most recent piece we created so we were more likely to be not as familiar with it. We started Jack and the beanstalk which went could until we got to "You've got a friend in me" which we still needed to stage it, so we spent some time deciding what we would in which we changed the song:
Tom:

She's got a friend in me
 She's got a friend in me
When the road looks rough ahead
And you're miles and miles
From your nice warm bed
You just remember what your old pal said
Boy, She's got a friend in me
Yeah, She's got a friend in me

 

You've got a friend in me
You've got a friend in me
You've got troubles, and I've got 'em too
There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you
We stick together and can see it through
'Cause you've got a friend in me
You've got a friend in me

 

In this number we all walk around except me as I stand there listening to him as I'm his mother and the Co and Jack dance during the second chorus. We then move on through the rest of the show very well until the end after Jack and Goose had just jumped down the beanstalk. The scene that followed had some problems as none of us knew the lines we were saying as it was clear we hadn't gone over this last scene so we were instructed to go over it for next lesson.

Todays lesson went good as we managed to go over half of our production with little problems but it means we will need to go over certain scenes for next lesson like the ending of Jack and "You've got a friend in me" as we are performing our show next Tuesday (23rd June). We were informed today that we would only be performing to Themes view infants school only as we were unable to find a date we could of perform to St. Margret's infants. To improve our whole performance we will need to work on our whole energy out put for the performance as we should be exhausted by the end of the performance if we are putting the right amount of energy in as everything we do must be over the top. At the end of the lesson we had a sit down to talk about what we each needed to collect for the performance, these are the items I need to collect:

• Beak for start of Little Red (Can be made from some paper and cello tape)
• Tree costume for the scene in the woods with Little Red (We are making this at school next lesson)
• Dress for Mother in Jack and the beanstalk (Our teacher is supplying me with this item)
• Tray to sell goods in market scene (I can supply this from home)
• Broom for mother to clean with (I am borrowing this from Carl Tyler another member of the cast)