Whole show practice part 2 (Day of Performance)

Today we were off our normal time table at school so we could practice this performance as we were performing this at the end of the day. We started by laying out all the items we have for the show and then talking about our plan for the day:

• 9:00-10:00= Polish all numbers and scene we are not confident with
• 10:00-10:40= Make the Tree costumes and other items needed
• 11:00-12:20= Run the whole show with costumes and props while timing it.

We were informed today that we would be unable to perform our Goldilocks piece as the hall in the infants school was to small to set up a silhouette performance so we would only need to practice "Little Red" and "Jack and the beanstalk". We started by practicing the following numbers and scenes first: Little Red opening, Red in the Woods, Grandma house with Wolf and Red, You've got a friend in me, I've got the magic bean, Welcome to the sky, Cutting the beanstalk and "We're a believer". Our objective was to make sure we not only see if we knew these piece but also could put the full of energy. The opening of Little Red went very well so we only ran it once and moved on to Red in the woods which is where Red is on her way to her grandmothers. She is skipping in out of us while we are the trees but as a last minute add we had "Pink Panther" theme tune played in the background as the trees did a step kick and jazz hands in time with the beat of the song. We then skipped to Grandmothers house and speed ran through it to make sure we all knew what we were doing before we moved on to "you've got a friend in me" which was also find so we moved on to "I've got the magic bean". We ended up running this number a few times so that some of us could show more energy and smile more we performed the number, in total we did this number 5 times before we moved on to out next part which was "welcome to the sky". This number like last one, we ran over a few times, as some of us struggled to show enough energy but we sorted it and then moved on to cutting the beanstalk which was the scene where Jack had just come down the beanstalk and the one we weren't sure of our lines on. We managed to run through this though with no problems as we started "we're a believer" which went well but we had to decide weather we'd use backing track or the actual number, we took a vote and decided backing track.

We then spent time making our tree costumes from bin bags and leaves we cut from different shades of green and yellow paper. We also made a shinning gold egg for the goose to us in Jack and the beanstalk.