Monday 22nd June

In today's lesson we ran through all of act 2. Once we had done this we ran through the few scenes in that act that we didn't knoe very well. These were 'Meek shall inherit' and 'The finale'. I hope next lesson I can improve on my American accent and to warm up my vocals before I sing. I'll concentrate on sorting out my accent when I fully learn all of my lines.

Tuesday 16th June

In today's lesson we ran through all of act 2. After doing this we started to choreograph a dance for the dentist song 'Gas'. This should hopefully become polished in the next few lessons and I'll then be able to upload a video of it on here. One problem I faced today was singing the songs in act 2 without doing a vocal warm up. Next lesson I hope that we can start doing full rehearsals without any stops and go through the 'Gas' song a few more times. 

We have decided to perform the show on two or three nights, these will be the 16th, 17th and possibly the 18th of July.

'The Meek Shall Inherit' -Rehearsal video

'Don't Feed The Plants' - Finale rehearsal

'Dentist' - Rehearsal video

This was the first rehearsal video of the song 'Dentist'. We hope to improve this as we polish over each Act 1.

Tuesday 9th June

In today's lesson we started off by warming up our vocals. After this we sang through every song with and without the backing track. We went through each song twice whilst Meg and Kyle (Audrey and Seymour) went and practised on their songs together.
Once the company were reunited together we ran through act 2. One thing I'd like to improve on in my own time is my American accent as there are a few words that I cannot say using it. I remain unable to participate in a few of the faster dances but as I progress with physiotherapy I can hopefully re join into these dances soon. 

The Meek Shall Inherit

I relly enjoy this song and it's possibly one of my favourites of the show. The dance to this is very easy as we all get in a clump and do hand movements and then go back to our original positions. This is repeated 3 times but on the third time its done in a more choiresque style. By this I mean we stand in lines instead of a clump and then sway our arms slowly. Once we have done this the final 'by and by' we raise each arms on the first two words and the the final 'by' we raise both hands. As the song fades out we drop our arms and keep our haid raised.

Closed for renovation and Dentist

For 'Closed for renovation' everyone off stage is lined up in two lines on each wing. At a certain point in the song we all walk on stage and Liam calls us in. We walk in and clean up around the shop. To add to the cheeseyness of the performance Liam kicks us round the shop and does comedic things so that it stays the same all the way through.

For Orin's first song 'Dentist' we devised a dance for it. It starts off by him scaring me off stage and then we start claps at a certain time in the music.We then come back on stage and walk round Toby who's placed in the dentist chair, as Orin comes over I put on his rubber gloves for him and Kai gives him his gas. When Orin says 'Success' and there's a break in the music we all stand straight. We've then added a part where we're all going to turn round to face the audience and have a picture of a mouldy tooth. I'll add the video to this dance above. 

Little Shop Of Horrors- Finale

During rehearsals of the finale we decided that everyone will come on stage holding small plant, this is because our piece is quite cheesey. This adds to the cheeseyness as times such as when we sing 'And this theatre' we all do a big jump with our hands and legs in the air. Also the movements we do add to this such as pointing in different directions when we say each place such as 'Peoria' and 'New York'. I face no probelms with the movement/dance in this song as its minimal and easier to do than most of the others. One thing I'd like to improve on is my vocals as I find high notes hard to do.

Da Doo Song

For this song the company were split into small groups and told to make up a small shop. Each of these shops were then added together in a row to simulate the line of shops where Seymour found Audrey Two. Once we had shown the rest of the company each of our 'shops' we encorporated these together to the music of Da Doo. We had rehearsed this many times but it still wasn't perfected. To perfect this we added a few changes. So each time there was a change in the music we'd freeze. Also every does a hand movement at the 'total eclipse of the sun' and then change direction we're facing to look at the sun.

Thursday 14th May- Weekly Blog

This week we concentrated on the Skidrow song. We chose that instead of starting on stage in positions we'll stay in our original stage positions in the character we chose to be. The character I chose to be was a 16 year old school boy who always ran away from school and has no friends and lives with his mum. My character will be wearing a shot thats unbuttoned at the top and black trousers, when I become Patrick Martin I'll do up by top button and wear a tie so I look like a business man. A main reason why my character goes to Skidrow is because he knows no one will look for him down there.

I don't have many problems with the Skidrow dance, I believe there are no more reheasals needed for this dance unless we do a full rehearsal. One thing I do find challenging is trying to keep in character whilst I'm singing and dancing, this is because my character doesn't enjoy doing much and is always bored around Skidrow.