Practice 1

Today (4^th June) we started to go over past number we have done and worked on perfecting the dance moves as well as going over the lyrics for the songs. We started by looking at Da Doo and changed it so that everyone would sing the song instead of just the Urchins for the song. We all went over lyrics and the tune for Da Doo so that we could all learn the words before we went over the market place scene that happens during the song. After we were all comfortable with the lyrics we ran through the song once with movement and then we did it a second time but we used more energy in the market place during the song to make it appear more cartoon like with our animation in the song so that we were over the top in all of our actions. After we were happy with the energy level put into “Da Doo” we moved on to our next musical number which was “Meek Shall Inherit”. We started with the dance for the song to make sure we all remembered the steps to the number, we then spent some time polishing the steps for some of cast who weren’t sure on the moves or weren’t here to learn when we stage the number. After this we ran the whole number with the track and tried it without the track so that we could focus on the beat instead of relying on the voices in the tracks.

I believe that todays lesson was successful as we have now set all of our chorus numbers so we are now polishing all the numbers starting with "Da Doo" and "Meek Shall Inherit". I think this is good because there are a few numbers that need sorting in either the Dancing or Singing for the song. in my opinion the main problem for most of us is the energy we put in as it seems like some of us are lacking in the energy. Next lesson I think we need to get our energy going in the warm up so that we can create a better performance