Little shop of Horrors

Today we started to stage the opening of the show which is the song “Little shop of Horrors” that starts with a powerful voice narrating, which is done by Toby for our show. After the voice is done speaking, the songs beat starts and the urchins move down the centre of the audience, clicking in time with the beat. After the first couple of beats, more members of our chorus come up, following behind them, clicking with the beat. They all run on stage as the rest of us come out on stage and join in with the clicking as we all move into positions on stage to start the dance.

Dance part 1: we start with 2 steps together, jumps towards the right and 2 to the left followed by a mimic of a swimming motion with our arms then drop straight to the floor. We move straight back up and step diagonally towards the right extending and distending our arms twice and then again to the left. We then do a reach from right to left towards the centre followed by 3 head rocks. We all then do a step over hip slap twice towards the right of the stage ending with us holding our arm out in a style of a stop gesture. We then do to step clicks followed by a box step slide and start walking towards centre stage wriggling our finger then swap fingers after 8 beats. We all then run back to our starting positions and make an over the top scared face as we then run in 2 circles, one on each side of the stage, then back to start positions.

Dance Break: The dance break starts with a right over left step then turn back on myself to a full spin in which I lift my right leg up and both my arms then slap my hands on my thighs as I take 2 steps to the right with a shoulder roll then repeat these steps but in the opposite direction. After these steps we do 2 step backwards with a thigh slap into a box step and a jumping pattern going forward, backwards, right, left then running on the spot.

Dance part 2: we all start a step click up stage right, when we reach the top stage right we do a hand circle twice on both sides on our waist then do a full rotation and run back to our stating spots following with 3 steps forward leading with the left as our arms flap. The next step is a clap above our heads on the right and then 2 on the left followed by an arm spin as we jump down the up into a body ripple forward. We then do 2 slides to the back right of the stage and then 2 jump and shimmy’s around back to the front as we run back to positions. When we arrive back we do 4 poses each time the urchins say “look out” followed by us bringing our arms down in front like were driving a car and then flick our left wrist 3 times. We then wiggle our fingers while walking towards the centre then disburse into our positions to run in circles again. We end by a step click to off stage in time with the beat.