Staging Act 1 and "Closed for renovation"

Today we had 2 main objectives in our lesson for little shop:

1. Set and run all scenes in act 1

2. Set "closed for renovation

1: we ran all the numbers and scenes we set which was scenes 1 as well as musical numbers we've staged which were "little shop of horror", "skid row" and "Da doo". After we had successfully run and then perfected each of these songs and the first scene, we moved on and stage scene 2-4. We had also decided that for the show none of us would leave he stage except for costumes change, so we are all sat along the front of stage as our characters from skid row and we watched each scene as the show goes on. Scene 2 starts with Seymour and an interview on stage left and the urchins, Mushnik, Dom, Toby and me gathered around a radio centre stage as we listen to Seymour's interview. "Ya never know" is the song that starts during this scene but we skipped it today as we haven't set it yet. Midway Through the song there is dialogue as Seymour comes up to us and asks how he did with the interview and Mushnik says he wants a photo with everyone. All of us on stage crowd around Seymour for a photo then run back to whee we were. The song finishes as Audrey walks on to talk with the urchins about where she was, they tell Audrey to leave her boyfriend for someone better as Seymour walks on to work on plants as we then hear Audrey say she doesn't deserve Seymour leading into "somewhere that's green" ending scene 2.

Scene 3 starts with "closed for renovation" which we are staging later today. We then work on the scene out in the street when the urchins meet Orin and try to get him to leave Audrey when "dentist" starts but we skipped it as we haven't set it yet. The next part of scene 3 is when Seymour and Orin meet and then Orin taking Audrey out. This leads into the songs "Mushnik and son" and "git it". Finally this leads to scene 4 which when Seymour goes to the dentist to kill Orin, everyone is sat across the front of the stage in a waiting room while centre stage we can see Seymour and Orin interact in the scene lead ing into "now (it's just the gas)" which we haven't staged yet but is also the end of act 1.

2: We started "closed for renovation" which for the first 2 verses only has Mushnik working at his desk with Seymour and Audrey cleaning. For the last verse of the song 7 of us from each side of the stage walk on looking all confused and estranged as we clean the shop but getting more wacky in the way we clean as the song nears the end like we start to clean each other and characters on stage as during the last part of the song we get kicked off and stubble away.