Little Shop of Horrors: Day 13

Today, most people were assigned the task of updating their blogs. As I only had to to copy and paste my rehearsal notes from my phone notes to blogger, I was up to date in two minutes. This allowed myself, Harry and Dan to set the dance to Mushnik and Son, that Dan had choreographed. At first, we both found the dance rather difficult purely due to the pace of the song and how quick the transitions into different moves were. The routine itself was simple to remember, the main problem was trying to execute it at the speed required without messing up.

Afterwards, we ran through the dance to Little Shop of Horrors and Ya Never Know before our teacher took myself and Meg to go and work on the dialogue running into Suddenly Seymour, which we set and practiced through a couple of times. I think the most important aspect to get right in the song is the movement. Many times, we both moved too fast which didn't fit the tender and slow pace of the song. Therefore, I think we need to work on getting the movements slow enough and with enough meaning to show the audience that these two characters are in love with each other, but are timid in showing it to each other.

Then we moved  into the opening number to Act 2: Call Back in the Morning. This number proves to be extremely difficult due to how quick the bars are and the pace of the spoken word as well as the singing, combined with the tune and frequent changes between myself and meg in singing. We decided to listen to the song a couple of times to try and grasp the tune and pace, so hopefully, we will gradually be able to start singing along with the cast track before performing the piece with the backing track.