Little shop of horrors: Day 2

Today we began with a run thorough of skid row to remind ourselves of how it went and to rehearse it a little further to make sure it would be fresh in our mind. After practicing we filmed it with the backing track, however one of our choreographers main concern was that the piece looked a bit basic and it didn't flow one movement into another and involved us waiting around momentarily before continuing on. Fortunately, there is a lot of time and room for us to fill in parts and polish it as we go, I'm sure it will change before our final performance.

For the rest of the day, we worked on Da-Doo, we began by watching the film version of the song to gain ideas of how it was set. Then, we split into groups to come up with ideas ourselves. I was kept in the group with Audrey and Mushnik, with the customer who comes into the shop. We rehearsed our scene and thought of ideas of how we could stage it. We were very cautious of our staging and wanted to give it layers. So we had standing, siting and leaning in the scene. Again, one of my main problems was that I wasn't acting geeky enough. The way I stood was still to cool for Seymour, so I had to work on my body language again. In terms of accent I think I'm fine, I jut really need to work on my posture and body language to make it more geeky and lacking confidence, which is difficult for me to mantain as naturally, I have confidence.

After we worked on the scene and experimented with how we said certain lines or actions to go with it, the other groups came back in and presented their idea of how to set the piece. It turned out to be very nice and for the beat very well and we were all very impressed. The next step was for our choreographer to include the parts he done with the three girls Into the piece, again this fit very well as they walked across the front of the stage, whilst all the cootion happened in the background. Then, I stepped into the action to complete the piece. I felt that, in pieces, I made the piece look a bit messy as I didn't know where to stand and when, so I was just ambling around at times, so I think that that is also an area to think about. So for the future, I think I need to work on my body language and my movement in da doo.

Little shop of horrors: day 1

Today we began to set the dance for Skid Row. To remind ourselves of how we learnt the song we stood in our harmony groups and sang the song through. After that our choreographer began to direct us and set the dance we wanted. One of the main features of the dance is that he allowed us a lot of freedom to allow the different personalities of the characters to come through. We began with a freeze frame, whilst trying to make our position as big and over the top as possible. As Seymour, one of my main efforts was to try and hide myself in the ensemble piece and try not to draw attention to myself to show him as being a very shy and nervous person. Another thing I found difficult was the beginning I my solo piece. Naturally I move around and jolt a lot, moving my arms and dancing around when singing. However as Seymour. I really had to think about how he would stand. What his body language would be like, how he would stand, how would he use his arms, what faces would he pull. I tried very hard to think about that and decided to stand feet together and playing with my hands to show his nervous and geeky character. In addition, one target I would set myself would be to learn the dance set, as dancing is my weak point and I feel very conscious about messing up, so by learning it as much as I can, I will eliminate all mistakes and feel confident in the dance when we come to perform it in rehearsal. I also need to look at theast part of the song as I don't know all of it and forgot my second to last line in one of the practices.