Styles

The 39 steps is a very slapstick comedy relying on big actions for the comedy, what makes "39 steps" very slapstick is because of the plot of the show as a definition of slapstick is clumsy actions and humorously embarrassing events which is shown the natural plot of Hannay trying to get to scotland in Act 1, we have used slapstick elements in all of our scenes for 39 steps as a lot of slapstick is written into the script like when Annabella dies and falls across Hannay stopping his movement, this is very slapstick as it is a clumsy action. the style of slapstick is all over the show as the main style of 39 steps is slapstick. Another style that is used a lot in 39 steps is multi rolling as the show is reliant on a four person cast so needs to use multi rolling. Multi rolling would be a key part of 39 steps as it is another form of the show's humour like in the train scene where the two clowns keep changing between the Salesmen, Porter, Mrs Higgins, Policeman and paper boy. This scene is made incredibly funny due to the chaotic and randomness of the changing characters, without this the scene becomes a lot more dull. A style 39 steps is very similar to how the english comedy group "Monty python" work in the sense of Monty python create humorous sketches for their audiences while 39 steps is performed very similar with each scene of 39 steps feeling like a sketch in a comedy show.
An idea our group had was adapting the style of "The play that goes wrong" as we had watch a scene from the play one lesson and really like how they performed the show so we had worked on adapting the style to 39 steps. We showed this style in like the scene where Annabella dies over Hannay, after Hannay gets out we leave her on the chair as we just move it to the side for the next scene and then back on after. Another part of how we adapted this was in our last scene of the Act between the professor and Hannay, for this scene we wanted to make it seem like to the audience we didn't know our lines so had another one of us behind the curtain reading out the lines behind the curtain every time one of us cofed the line was read out obviously to the audience before we'd then say it. We made this idea even more obvious by repeating lines already said before and us as actors acknowledging this and reacting to this. Another part we have kind of adapted from the play that goes wrong is just before Hannay gets shot, as the professor looks in all his pockets and then just points his hand at Hannay like a gun, we thought this was funny because it makes the professor look like he's forgot the gun and very childish as he's using his hand as a gun.

Transitions

We were working on our plan for staging of 39 nine steps and our plains for transitions as we are performing in the Avenue theatre as it is a small theatre that will accommodate the tone of the show helping the audience to be immersed in the humour. Our transitions will be done by our cast to help with the humour side having random bits of scenery come on like in Crofter's house when i'm told to take a seat, so I look around see there is nothing so go into the wings and pull on a table with 3 chairs on, or in the professor's house when the professor appears he slides on in the armchair acting like he's alway been their. I like these scene changes as they add their own bit of humour to an already funny show making the show just as quirky. We played with the idea of transitions by using the idea of our characters being aware their in a show, so like in the pilot scene when the plain crashes they keep screaming, look at the audience like whats going on before getting up and just leaving like this was suppose to happen which was but has the illusion of it going wrong.

Today we have found out that the Avenue have a performance booked on the day we want to perform our production so we are now doing the show in our schools main hall as it has helped us change some transitions to make them more appealing. A member of our group suggested having our stage curtains closed a it helps makes the stage look more full with us on it as we are a small cast, this idea helped us come up with an another idea for transitions which involves having the train scene preset behind the curtain and for the start of the scene having it open into the train scene. After the train scene ends it would close until Crofter scene when Margaret lets Hannay into the house which is the que to open the curtain showing the house. I liked this as it was an easier way for us to set up scenes as well as creating an illusion of entering the house with the curtain opening. Another new transition we added was in the radio announcer scene where Hannay jumps of the bridge, for this i'm actually going to jump of the stage as it will help add to the humour of the scene when our sound effect of me falling goes off. Overall for 39 steps we have managed to create a load of creative and humours scene changes and movements between our scene.

Voice

As I am playing Hannay in our production of 39 steps so my understanding of voice is a lot similar then everyone else as I do not multi role so I only need one voice. My voice for Hannay needs to be a well brought up posh man from the thirties. I was able to mold my voice into this easy but I had a recurring problem. My pronouncing of some words isn't great due to the area and people I was brought up with I naturally slur words and don't pronounce all the letters of a word. I spent a short time working on this as once I became aware of this I was able to adapted and change my speech pattern. I had another bigger problem with my voice that was later pointed out to me and that was with my "f" and "th". I had a speech pattern where I would naturally say "th" as "f" making words like "that" into "fat" or "thirty" into "firty". This was becoming a big issue for me that I was struggling to overcome as I found my self naturally saying "f" for every thing.
To try and help with thus issue I looked up some tongue twisters that I could use to help involving "th".

"I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn't the thought I thought I thought"

"They threw three thick things"

"Father, mother, sister, brother- hand in hand with one another"

I used these tongue twisters before practicing Hannay's monologue at the start of the show. These tongue twisters over time helped with this issue but has not got rid of it. While playing Hannay I have to really thing about the movement of tongue because. Eventually after focusing on this issue I was able to use my voice with thus only being a little issue in my performance as I still naturally find myself saying "th" but the amount I do this has definitely decreased since I became aware of the issue and started working on it.

Pace

This is the definition of pace: "the speed at which someone or something moves, or with which something happens or changes". Pace can make or break the performance of "The 39 steps". The 39 Steps is a much beloved english comedy play and one of the reasons that it's such a successful comedy is because of the pace of the show and the amount of energy put in by the actors. Each scene needs to be treated like a little sketch where we focus all our energy and focus on because if we are splitting our focus across the show, we won't be using all our energy in each scene. The show doesn't work if the actors talk really slow and their movement is lacking the energy the show very quickly becomes boring so the high energy is needed to make 39 steps the spectacle that it is. Pace is enssntial weather the scene needs the slow pace reaction for an old man moving and talking or the face pace speak between Hannay and the milkman when he's trying to run away, Pace is constantly used in the show and without the pace the show becomes a bit boring as it goes from scene to scene needing to change pace every scene to what is suitable for the interractions between characters while still keeping the fast pace sketch like performance tone. In Thirty-Nine Steps pace is most important to the two clowns as although Hannay and the girl do alot, the clowns have an endless number of quick changes and characters to perform as. Like in the train scene in Act 1 when the two clowns are constantly changing between the two underwear salesmen, a policeman, a paper boy, Mrs Higgins and the train assistant. This scene would lose all comedic value if the clowns pace is slow because the changes between the characters needs to be fast and chaotic.

Characterisation

I'm playing Hannay in Act 1 of our production of 39 steps. Dan S is also playing Hannay but in Act 2 instead so we had worked together to create our character of Hannay by deciding certain characteristics that we can share in our acts. We talked about how are Hannay should stand in every scene, we thought it was obvious that Hannay would have strong posture because he is use to a higher living and would of had a strong upbringing which also would mean Hannay has a very clear and well pronounced English accent. After me and Dan had sorted this first part of details we were then stuck deciding what to do with our hands in the posture, whether to hold then at our side, fold them or hand over hand in front. We didn't like the idea of having folded arms and having our hands by our side didn't seem right either so what we do is hold our hands togeather in front of us as Dan and I agreed that Hannay would use alot of hand gestures and this hand position we have agreed on will help this.

Another part of Hannay we worked on together was how Hannay should sit. We had already said Hannah was of upper living so I suggested we sit up right with legs together but Dan then said he thinks we should have our legs crossed which would show Hanny's comfort and control in scenes wgere he gets to sit. We cross left over right. I then suggested that we should do something else begore we sit. I said we could like brush our legs before we sit and kicck our leeft leg forward before we cross. We would place our hands on our stomach when were not moving them.

The last bit of characteristics we decided was when Hannay enters a scene. We agreed that no matter how tired or beat up Hannay is from the previous scene he will always take a second to sort out his clothes/smarten himself up before moving on with the scene.

The 39 Steps

Today we started to work on our next unit which is "Appling acting styles" and for this unit we are going to do our own production of "The 39 Steps". For our own performance of this we have split our class into 2 groups and each will be given an act to perform for a production. The 2 groups are Freya, Dan S, Toby and Tom in one group with Dan S playing Hannay, Freya playing Pamela and Tom and Toby as the 2 "Clowns", they were given Act 2 to do. My group is Meg, Dan M, Carl, Dom and I, our casting is me as Hannay, Meg as Annabella, Margret and Pamela, and then Dan M, Carl and Dom as the "Clowns", we were given Act 1.




Vaudeville research:
Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment. It was especially popular in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. A typical vaudeville performance is made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill. Types of acts have included popular and classical musicians, singers, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, female and male impersonators, acrobats, illustrated songs, jugglers, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and movies. A vaudeville performer is often referred to as a "vaudevillian".
Vaudeville was variety entertainment, consisting of a highly diverse series of very short acts, or "turns." The acts ranged from singing groups to animal acts, from comedians to contortionists, from magic tricks to short musical plays. A typical vaudeville bill consisted of approximately 13 acts, most of which were typically 6-15 minutes long. Many of the modes of performance developed in vaudeville had a profound effect on popular culture that continues into the present day. For example, many of the ethnic stereotypes prevalent in television and film -- Jewish, Irish, Italian, African American -- derive from the ethnic caricatures that were a mainstay of Vaudeville comedy. The comedian Frank Bush, whose act is recreated for Virtual Vaudeville, exemplifies this brand of ethnic humor.


Appling:
Vaudeville is a very useful acting style to apply for "The 39 Step" as Vaudeville is very fast pace and full of energy that we need to show in our performance. The way Vaudeville is performed with sketch after sketch is similar to "The 39 Steps" as each scene in "The 39 Steps" gives an impression that it being performed as a sketch by it's uniqueness and quirkiness that needs to build more and more each scene.

Workshop Evaluation

We had just finished our workshop performances of "Rent" which went very well for our first production of the workshop. If we were to take this production further into a bigger venue we would need to listen and respond to the feedback given about the performances from our audiences and cast. Our biggest complaint with our workshop production was that our audiences members struggled to hear what was being said as well as sung during the show. I thought about this issue and how we would resolve this issue if we were to continue, my first thought was to use radio mics instead of having our mics at the front of stage which we did have but I was then made aware that in a lot of professional productions the cast didn't have mics at all and would project their lines across the theatre with no problem. Thinking about this point I then thought that with the type of rock music "Rent" is projection wouldn't work well so that help me realise that if we were to take our production of "Rent" to a bigger venue we would use radio mics on our cast so that our audience wouldn't have trouble hearing our vocals.

If we were also to take it to a bigger venue I would like to of had a production team to focus on our use of Props, Costumes and Stage crew. Props we would need to work on as we lacked a lot of props needed for our first production and some of the props we did have wasn't decade appropriate. Costumes we had for our version were nice but we had a member of our cast sort them so it would help further our production if we could have a separate team to create our costumes for the show. If we were to take it to a bigger venue, having a stage crew would help with our scene changes we have to do as before we were moving everything so we had to add over score so we could set up. Having a stage crew would really help but if were to have the, I think it would look good if they were dressed in costumes and appeared to be apart of the show but having them as just stage crew would be nice as they could just focus on set. Overall I would probably have them dressed in costumes because then we could change set with lights up and have it not look strange.

Taking Rent to a bigger venue I would have like to change some of the numbers we had cut, I think the production would further itself if we had re-added numbers such as "La Vie Boheme B", "Halloween" and "Happy new year A". I feel these number would help improve the production as one of our complaints about our production was that our audience struggled to follow the plot of the show, so I think by putting these numbers back in to the show would help improve the narrative but I would also take some number to shorten the run time, I would remove "We're okay", "You'll see" and "Vociemail #1" because these numbers serve no massive relavences to the narrative of the show as well as being song that take alot of time while still serving no character development relvences. Another objective I'd like to achieve before we would moved venue would be to add more dances to our show, in our whole show we only really had 3 dances and I believe we could better the show if we improved the dances we have in our show. As an example I would like to make our version of "Tango Maureen" more dances orientated, as the whole number is ment to be a tango but we only started to dance a little at the end of the dance. I would like it if we looked into making it a much bigger ensemble number from the start with a visually appealing dance. One last improvement I would make to our production before we took it to another venue would be changing how we performed some of our songs, I feel our narrative of the show would better itself if we didn't sing the whole show. I would take a song like Tune up #1 and change it into a scene, by doing this I feel it would help our audience to understand the whole story of our show as one of our audiences complaints was that they struggled to follow the story.

Maureen

Today we had Lorna for the whole lesson so we focused on all the numbers she is in for this rehearsal so that she could know what she is doing in our show we started bu working on "Rent" and adding Lorna into our dance as well as our frantic beginning were we move objects around our stage. After this we then went through Tango: Maureen so she could practice with her partner, lucky we had already showed Lorna the dance before so we only practiced the number a couple of times so she could get use to her partner (Carl) and the timing of the dance. After this we showed Will I+ which we ran quick as all she had to do was sing in group 1 with me and Tom. We then moved forward to "La Vie Boheme" which we put Lorna in, showing here our first Choreograph part of the number at the table and then showing her the level of energy needed for the rest of the number. We then ran "Seasons of love" which was simple but we then had Lorna sing the very high solo at the end which he previously removed because none of us can do it. She sounded great doing it so we added it to our version before moving on to "without you" which had to show Lorna the movement to as I was the one who created her movement when we created this piece. After showing her this we ran through Goodbye love onwards until the end integrating Lorna into each part she needed to be involved in vocally and physically.

Finishing our run through

Today we continued with our whole show we had started a week ago starting from where we left off which would be Voicemail #4.
Voicemail #4: Voicemail #4 went well as Dom performed Alexi with very big actions like he was ment to and portayed the wacky agent.
I'll cover you reprise: The number sounded nice but we were told to remember that we are at a funeral as we didn't look upset enough like we needed to at the furneral.
Goodbye love: Goodbye love started off well but we ran into a few timing difficulties with the backing track as after everyone leaves excluding Tom and I we struggled to find our correct place in the song  we should be at for our lyrics but it didn't work each time we tried. We also learned that the backing track didn't include a part of mine and Tom's dialogue but instead jumps straight into Meg's verse we had to work with timing to pause the track at the right time so me and Tom can talk as well as then have meg come in at the right time with dialogue.
What you own: This number sonded alright but I had to spend sometime of finding my notes for the frist half of the song as struggled to pitch myself at the start as I would sing lower than i should.
Finale A: We spent alot of time on this song because at frist we worked on christmans bells at the start because we were told there wasn't enough attitude with the singing, we then worked on mine and Rogers part which we were suggested to speake not sing so that we could stay in time as well the problem being that there is no tne to sing to at that part of the song. We then spent while working on the part where Mimi comes in dying as non of us knew the timing of the words within the tune of the song.
Your eyes: This number ran well.
Finale B: Other than a little bit of timing truble at the start of the song the rest ran smooth sounding very nice for our ending number.

Workshop: Light my candle and I'll cover you

Today we worked on our notes from last lesson staring by working on "La vie Boheme". We ran through this number 4 times until we were happy with our end result, while running through this number we worked on getting up and moving more throughout the song when were all singing at points, we also worked on the dialogue at the end where we all tell stories about each other and how we could make it more appealing. when anyone starts to speak we now all cheer them on as well as having the person who is having told a story about them act it out e.g. Mimi start to do a dance when her story is being told. We then quickly worked on "Happy new year B" to see if we had worked on our timings of our lines in the song which we had so quickly moved on from to work on "Light my candle". We worked on the song by having Tom and Meg repeatedly perfrom the number while the rest of us watch them while suggestng ideas to make it more appealing. One of the main attrabutes of the number we wroked on was how to make meg more flirty with Tom. After we'd finish working on "Light my candle" we strated to do the same with "I'll cover you" having Toby and Dan M slowly working through the number as we all suggeted ideas on how to make them appear as a gay couple to an audience, this was the last number we worked on this lesson but we had managed to work our way through the mojority of notes given to us the lesson before.

Full Run On Stage

Today is our last rehearsal before our workshop performance of "Rent". So we spent our lesson doing a full run through on stage and in costume. While running through Miss made several notes on each number to work for the performance.

Tune up #1: Ashley slow down the opening  paragraph, audience needs to here the dialogue I say. Both Tom and Ash watch the timing of this number.
Voicemail #1: Sounds good, could be louder.
Tune up #2: sounded good no major notes.
Rent: Ashley hold the note at the end of the first note, don't slide off it. Everyone sings last line not just Ash and Tom.
One song glory: Careful with voice, Tom goes very red, remember to breathe.
Light my candle: Meg and Tom you could both be louder
Voicemail #2: Sounds good but Dan S need more energy with the lines.
Today 4 U: looks great, Ashley don't look so scared of Dan M. Tom careful where you put your guitar so it's not in the way.
You'll see: All 3 of you need to watch your timing in this number
Tango Maureen: Sounds and looks great.
Life Support: Dom try speaking your lines, Carl louder and watch the timing on your line.
Another Day: Sounded good but everyone needs to watch our harmony when we first come in to the song as we're off tune.
Will I?: Sounded really nice.
Santa Fe: Everyone needs to go over the backing vocals we all sing as everyone clearly doesn't know what to sing, also some people need to go over the dance steps as not everyone is confident enough.
I'll cover you: Looked really nice performance
We're Okay: Sounded nice, remember to grab the phone.
La Vie Boheme: Good energy, Ashley watch the timing for when you first start to sing
Seasons of Love: Most of us need to sing a lot louder as we're not clear in what we are singing.
Voicemail #3: Looks great try to be a little bigger with your actions Dom
Happy New year B: This number works really well and sounds good.
Seasons of Love B: We all need to project our voice more.
Without you: Needs to be a lot louder and everyone needs to remember to sing the last line.
Voicemail #4: Looks really nice and funny.
I'll cover you reprise: Looks really lovely but would like to move Toby on to the lower decking for this song.
Goodbye love: Sounded nice to start but Ash and Tom need to looking into the timing of your argument as you keep ending up with a long pause in the music. Some people also need to sing louder.
What you own: Sounded really nice but everyone needs to make you know when you come on to sing.
Finale: Need to look at our dialogue after Meg comes in as we are struggling to fill the time we've got with the dialogue we have.
You're eyes: Sounded Nice, no major notes for this number.
Finale B: Sort out the timing for the start of the song when we say our lines but everything else is good.

Whole show run

Today we attempted a whole show run through our show from start to finish. With our run through we only made it to act II "without you before we ran out of time.

Tune up #1: Nothing wrong with that his number other than I need to go over the lyrics and not confuse them with the lyrics from Finale A.

Voicemail #1: Sounded good no problem

Tune up #2: Need to go over timing of this number again for Bennie's entrance as we kept going faster then the backing track.

Rent: sounded good. I need to not fall on the last note of the first verse and everyone needs to remember to sing the last line.

One song glory: Sounded good, Tom watch your breathing.

Light my candle: Needs to be louder as the number is hard to hear.
Voicemail #2: This number went well with no problem other then Dan S was requested to be more other the top with his dialogue.
Today 4 u: This number ran through smoothly with no problems in our performance.
You'll see: We need to spend time on the correct timing of this song as we keep falling out of tune with the backing track, we were recommended to try and speak the lines instead of singing them.
Tango Maureen: Vocally this number sounded good but to improve the vocals me and Freya stand in the middle of the stage while the others now dance around us so we could focus on our vocals more.
Life support: We all need to speak our lines in this song so that we can be heard as right now we our all struggling to project our solos in this number.
Another Day: Once again we need to project our lines as this number is really quiet also we all need to watch our pitching for when we start to sing our backing vocals in this song as our first notes didn't sound right.
Will I?: This number sounded good with no problem.
Santa Fe: We all need to go over the choreography in the show as not all of us know the steps to the number, we all need to go over our backing vocal for the number and when we actually sing in the number as not many of us are sing at the moment.
I'll cover you: Need to focus more on the singing instead of movement.
We're okay: No problem with the performance of this number
La Vie Boheme: sounded good but we all need more energy with this number and to make all our movements so much bigger as well as to cheer each other on (Embrace the bohemian).
Seasons of Love: sounded nice but needed to be projected louder.
Voicemail #3: sounds good but Dom was asked to go bigger with his action if he could.
Happy New year B: We need to work on our timing with this number as not everyone is sure on what they are singing and when. We were also recommended to try speaking the lines more then singing.
Seasons of Love B: sound nice but need to be louder while singing as we can not be heard.
Without you: This number needed polishing with the movement we do in our pairs as not everyone is sure on timing or the actual movements they do.

Requested practice

Today we had just come back from christmas holiday so we all requested several song to do this lesson so we could refresh our memory. We started by working on "La Vie Boheme" as it had been a long time since we had performed this number and after we had we realised that we needed to work on this number again in another rehearsal we also realised that we still needed to sing through the last part of the number. We moved on and looked at "rent" which was fine other than the last verse which everyone needs to sing with confidence so that it sounds good. We ran through "Today 4 u" which we spent time on workshoping ideas for this number as we hadn't set this number fully yet. Through out the first half of the song Tom and I fumble around the stage as Angel knocks us about as well as in to each other. When the drum solo starts in the song, Dan as Angel slides down into the audience in which he flirts with the audience members instead of actually performing a drum solo. The number ends with Dan doing a spin on the table.

Seasons of Love B

Today we looked at seasons of love B and what we wanted to happen in the number.  We split into groups that slowly walk on stage from the back of the hall then cross  onto opposite sides of the stage, then walk off. After we had worked on this for a bit we ran through the first seasons of Love which leads into voicemail 3 and happy New year. We refreshed our memory over theses 3 numbers as well before we then tried an Act II run through all of what we had done so far so we worked through the show.

Seasons of love: The number ran well but as a group we need to work on our volume of the song as well as our pitching of ntes when we hold the lyric "Love"

Happy new year B: This number is getting better we all just now need to be confident with a lines as well knowing whether we want sing them or just say them to the tune.

Take me or leave me: We still haven't done this number yet.

Seasons of love B: This number has no problems as we had created this today.

Without you: We went through this number with little problem except we need to remember that we all sing the last without you and turn to face Angle.

I'll cover you repries: This number ran smooth with just the need for a little bit of improvement needed for the harmonies on the number.

Goodbye Love: We spent sometime working on each part of the dialogue in the song so we could perfect the interactions between each of our characters.

What you own: We ran through this number with no problem

Finale A: We ran through this number a couple of times as we were trying to work on our interaction between each other as well as the timing of our lines.

Your eyes: We skipped this number today.

Finale B: we ran through this number with little problem.

I'll cover you reprise

To day we started to look at I'll cover you reprise as we had song through this song in our previous lesson. We started to think of ideas of how to set the number and I came up with the idea of having 4 chairs in a line on each side of the stage and a gap in the middle. We would be sat in this order at the start:
Tom (Roger), Lorna (Maureen), Dom (Paul), Dan S (priest)
Me (Mark), Carl (Bennie), Toby (Collins), Freya (Joanne).
We have Mimi in the middle already starting her eulogy first and then when she finishes I swap seats with her so she is now sat next to Bennie who she came with, I then swap with Maureen so I'm next to Roger and finally Maureen swaps with Collins so everyone is next to the person they should as well as Collins being centre stage for his solo.
As we had sang through this number last lesson we found this easy to sing through today. We all rise one by one just before and after we sing with Collins. We have no movment while singing as its a sad song to be focused on the death of Angel.
We performed this song several times focusing on the vocals of the song so we could have a hard hitting affect on the audience.

Backing Tracks

Today miss arrived and gave us the backing tracks for every number in the show using our email addresses and blogs. So in lesson we sang through every song to try the backing tracks out
"Tune up 1" backing track: with this backing track I struggled to stay in time with the music as it progressed through the song as either I was going to fast or to slow compared to the backing track.
"Voice mail 1": has no backing track.
"Tune up 2" backing track: I managed to stay in time with this track after getting yse to the pace from the last track so we made it through this song with little problem.
"Rent" backing track: this number went fine for us to sing along with but at the end miss reminded us we need to shout less for the songs as it causes us to lose the tone.
"One song glory" backing track: Tom sang through this number with no problem.
"Light my candle" backing track: this was their first time singing through this song but they managed to sing through it with little mistake of keeping in time.
"Today 4 you" backing track: this number me, Toby and atom sang through our first part of the song with little difficulty as we had practice it before but Dan struggled to sing the rest of the song as hasn't done the number before.
"You'll see" backing track: this number we went well other than a few mistakes with timing of lines.
"Tango Maureen" backing track: With this number we got up and ran through the dance as well as the song as it had been a while since we had practice the dance.
"Life support" backing track: we ran this number with no problems.
"Another Day" backing track: this number had little problem except some of us struggled to sing a long with our part at the end of the song.
"Will I?" backing track: ran through this with no problem.
"Santa Fe" backing track: ran through this with no problem.
"I'll cover you" backing track: ran through this with no problem.
"La Vie boheme": we ran through this number with little difficulty until the end where we all tell stories of the other characters which we tried to do but have never done before so we struggled with the timing.
After we had sang through those song, we then had a listen to "I'll cover you reprise" as we were going to set it next lesson. We sang through with little problem and put ourselves in groups to sing the last part of the song.
"With a thousand sweet kisses": Freya, Meg, Lorna, Dan M and Tom
"Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes": me, Carl, Dan S, Dom