Little Shop of Horrors: Day 5 and 6

Day 5: We began today by running all the musical numbers we had set so far and dialogue up to closed for renovation. We then started to work on the musical number. We began by dividing up and organising who said what line of the song between Mushnik, Audrey and Seymour. We listened through it a couple of times before our choreographer set the piece, telling us where to go and when, tweaking parts of the timings as we went on and at the same time, allowing people to know when the large Audrey 2 is brought on, allowing Harry, Meg and myself to work where the plant wasn't going to be. After this we performed "Little Shop of Horrors" and "Skid Row". Once with the real track and then with the backing track.






Day 6: Today, we began with running through skid row once with backing vocals and then with purely the backing track to see how far we had come and how good we were without the broadway version playing over the top of us. Thankfully, I said all the lines of my part in the right order and now feel confident enough in terms of the vocals, what I now need to work on is how I stand, for how long I stand and how I move during the piece, as I was unsure and probably remained to static during singing, which would be boring from an audiences point of view, but at the same time, I don't want to draw attention to myself as the people dancing have a nice routine and create an atmosphere. I wouldn't want to detract from that by moving around too much. After that we a started from the dialogue and ran all the way to the end of act 1 skipping out the musical numbers to aid us in line learning and allowing us to set scenes and gain an understanding of what happens as we continue through the play. We also set the scene for when the dentist gasses himself to death. Of course, we are still very early in developing the scenes, but eventually we will get more and more used to the scenes and perhaps begin to add some of our own creative spins on the piece. Which is something I'm certainly looking to do. Of course, Seymour is a very specific character with a very unique personality, as are all of the characters in the musical. However, I don't want to just regurgitate the characters I've seen from the film and broadway musical. I want to play Seymour in my own way, whilst still remaining believable and with enough of the original Seymour, which I will develop more of as we act the scenes out more, as well as practicing with ideas at home.