Act II run

Today we planned to run Act II as we have now stage all numbers and scenes in Act II except one scene which Kyle and Meg went away to stage while the rest of us worked on singing in all of Act I. We all sang through “Little shop”, “Skid Row”, “Da Doo”, “Ya Never Know”, “Closed for Renovation” and “Dentist”. We managed to sing and sort out our harmony for each of these numbers before we started to run Act II, a problem accrued while singing through these songs was that we found that the backing tracks are a lot faster than the tracks we were listening to, so we had to sort out our timings for each number. We started to run Act II going through all scenes and numbers in the act. The run was going well until we got to mine, Ali and Liam song “Meek Shall Inherit”, the problem with the song was that like the other backing tracks was that it played really fast compared to the actual track. This was a problem because there is dialogue between choruses so we kept losing the starting point for each of our solos, so we had to keep going back to start of the song. After this we kept running the act without any more difficulty as the rest of the act was solos for the leads which they already knew so we were able to go through very quickly to the finale of “Don’t feed the plants”. We performed this number with no difficulties except realizing none of us did the finale bow in the song, this was our note to remember for next time as that was the end of the lesson.

I think todays lesson went well as today I feel that more of us put in the energy during run of Act II so I was able to see what our show could be like. In my opinion I believe that we are making good process towards the show week in making sure were performance ready. my own personal goal is to make sure I am comfortable with my lines and solo in "Meek Shall Inherit" for when we next run this number again. To improve ourselves as a ensemble I think we all just need to familiarizes ourselves with the running order of the show as most of us never know what scene follows after a song with using there scripts.