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