This lesson we had resumed to rehearsing Rent after the two lessons of blogging. It was in someways refreshing to be up on our feet singing again. It was decided by our teacher that we would delve deeper into Act 2 of this musical. We started with Happy new year B then worked on Voice mail #3, and Take me or Leave Me then finally started to listen to Without you.
"Happy New Year B"- 15th number.
The performance of this song this time round was much more energetic compared to the last time we performed this song. I was surprised that everyone had learnt their parts to this song during the short amount of time given. The fact that everyone knew what they was doing made the number run smoothly. This meant that we could move onto more important numbers that we need to block. Staging wise nothing has changed from last lesson and it looks good when we are performing it.
In my own time I worked on practicing the high note at the end of the song, and i feel as though i have made significant progress. I am now much more confident in singing in this octave. However it was noted that I will just need to increase my volume a little more so the mics will pick up my voice.
We ran through this number so we could end up blocking it and we was able to. Now in the future when performing this number we need to make sure it is at this level of energy all the time as this was our best performance if it to date.
"Voicemail #3"- Dialogue
As Warren and Tyler don't have any main parts they have smaller characters who still have the same impact as the mains do. This is one the voicemails both of them are in. Tyler plays Mrs Jefferson (Mark's mother) and Warren plays Alexi darling. In this bit of singing dialogue there really needs to be a sense of bickering to make it seem funny however i am not feeling it from Tyler and Warren, perhaps this is something that they should work together in their spare time a little more.
"Take me or leave me"- 16th number.
This number is one of the best songs out of the musical so far. Alice and Lorna really put so much energy into their performance that you can really see it shine through. Although, they both have experience in musical theatre outside of school so are already trained in this area. They already knew this song before hand so it was more of a walk in the park for the two. Overall projection was on point, along with everything else. Staging wise can't be done as most of it is in the cabaret seating area for the audience and we haven't had the opportunity to experience this as of yet.
"Without you"-17th Number.
This number is mainly Mimi's solo however Rodger joins in at the end of it. It was decided that this song is going to be the number I die in as well. We didn't get to stage my death in this number this lesson, however I hope it is something we focus on in our next lesson and also get to stage some of "I'll cover you (reprise)" as that is my funeral.
Overall I think we have made significant improvement to our rehearsal process.
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