Little Shop of Horrors: Day 27

Today, we had our dress rehearsal. It started really well, everyone knew what they were doing and knew their lines. Which was brilliant. The dialogue seemed to flow and we improvised where necessary. I felt that the singing was good in solos also. However. Some chorus numbers did seem flat and the energy seemed to die away the more we performed. Feed me was a bit of a disaster as we only had the piano for it, meaning it sounded completely new to us and we didn't know where to start, I tried to carry on best I could and felt that I carried out my bits rather well. We stopped at the end of act 1 to sing numbers with the piano. In addition, Mushnik and son seemed a lot slower than normally, so we wet through that too. All I can think of is that the show just needs a lot it's energy and character. Two or three people being over the top isn't enough and throughout the run through today I felt as if the show was flat, which is extremely disappointing, as we have all worked hard on this.