In the past few lessons we've been doing full rehearsals including one dress rehearsal, set design and finishing off some things in our teams such as ticket sales, putting up posters and making a Facebook event.
Since watching the Little Shop Of Horrors film I've realised that I'm going to change my characters costume as Patrick Martin wears a coloured suit with a skinny tie and a hat. My original idea was to wear a white shirt, black trousers and a tie with a weird logo on.
Above is a picture of Patrick Martin with Seymour. Now that I know my lines, this is how I intend my character to look. I want to also replicate the behaviour of him. I'll doing this by acting very 'in your face' and over the top. I'll be forceful towards Seymour and not give him time to speak.
With show night on Monday and Tuesday I used today's rehearsal to get used to operating Audrey Two, a problem I faced doing this was that because Audrey Two was only finished a few days ago Danny and I don't have much time to get used to how Audrey Two moves and when to move in position to move her mouth so that we can 'talk' for her.
Practising each song and dance without the backing track and with live music is also going quite well, even though it is a lot different, the company are finally starting to get used to it.
In today's lesson we chose different groups for everyone to be in in order to prepare for the show. The groups all work separately to provide a good final service for the show. These were decided before we went off in our groups to work on our area. I was put in the marketing team and this included making programs, cast lists and posters to put around the school. Next lesson I plan to learn my lines so that when we run act to I can act more as my character rather than constantly looking down at my script.
During today's lesson we substituted the backing tracks of each song for a piano played version. This is how we plan to sing the songs on the night, we went through in order of each song using the piano and practised some of the songs we were still not sure on because they are so different to the backing tracks. The main songs that we struggled with were 'Closed for renovation' and 'Mushnik and son'. During this lesson we also decided we have changed the dates of the performance to the 20th and 21st of July. There will be 2 evening performances and one during the school day.
