Sapphira's lesson 17th april

Our singing lesson we had today was very intresting as we were told by Sapphira that we were performing at an Old peoples home called 'The Sunshine' on the 15th of may. We were singing a range of songs from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.

Once i was told about the performance, i was very excited to make the old people smile and enjoy our company. I have sung in an Old peoples home before and i was very proud to hear that they enjoyed my visted and would love for me to come back, i was hoping that i would get the same feeling after this performance coming.

I have asked if i can perform a solo however i have been offered to perform a duet from the famous west end production 'West Side Story' with David. The song choice was 'Somewhere'. I was very excited to sing this song with him because its a song from one of my favourite musicals. The song is lovely and has lovely lyrics. Me and david were told to act out the song to show more emotion.

Our aims for this week were to learn the two songs, "If you aint got that swing" and "Sway"

Both songs are really good song choices for the whole group to sing to as the beat wants to make you dance around.

My aims are to:

Listen to Sapphira more, concentrate and not muck around in her lessons.

Do the singing warmups daily as this will help my voice get stronger and control my breathing.

Rehearse with david for the solo and choerograph movement.

21st March 2nd&3rd Performance

Today we had our 2nd and 3rd performance in one day which meant as a group we were all quite busy and nervous.

Our 2nd performance was not as successful as the first as we thought because the first performance was very good the second was going to be even better however we didn't really like about it much and thought it would just come to us. The energy was very low and we didn't pick up the pace.

I felt that i had stayed in character the whole time and didn't corpse however i wasn't very quick on my cues and could of had a more stronger confidence on my lines. I feel that apart from all the little mistakes we had to clean up the performance worked rather well, we all knew to learn from all the little mistakes and perform our very best for the next performance.


Our last performance had some brilliant feedback from the audience. I feel that i had put all my effort into this performance, i wasn't afraid to play around with it seen as it was our last performance at nescot. i feel that i had very good connection with the other characters and also the audience.
As a group i feel that all our cues were very good and kept at a good pace, we were also very good at remembering lines.

Overall the sound and lighting gave a great Aribian Nights atmosphere and i think this helped us get into character.

20th March First Performance

Today was our first performance, we were very nervous but we had all listened to our feedback from the open evening and turns out that the first performance was very successful seen as we all did very well at staying in character, rememebering our lines and our cues.

The stories were very clear and the energy was kept at a high standard, we also showed very bold movements. We still had some difficulties with the flats but we managed to work around it without the audience really noticing.

I feel that the story of Ali Baba wasn't as good as it shouldn't of been, as a group i think we have rehearsed this story many of times and we are now at te stage where we are very bored of it which slows down the pace.
Idividually i feel that i should of had much more diction and had more projection when i was saying my lines.

20th march Open Dress

Today was our very first performance however it was only a dress rehearsal and we didn't have a big audience, becasuse it was only a dress rehearsal we were allowed to call "LINE" if we needed help and if we also forgot a prop or que it wouldn't down grade us.

The first act went rather well especailly when it was our first performance to an audience. The ques were kept at a good pace and everyone was staying in character however in the story of Ali Baba we still wasn't positively sure about moving the flats.
The second act the energy was thrown to the ground when we performed the story of the Envious Sisters. many of the props were very messy seen as Nicole accedently hit Demi withone of her props which caused all the cast come out of character and start laughing which is very un professional. Luckly enough Daniella saved us by putting ALOT of emotion towards her monologue.

Overall the two stories (Little Beggar+Abu Hassan) was our strongest stories seen as the audience was reacting with huge laughter which is what we aimed for and the two stories (Ali Baba+Envious Siters) was our weakest  stories because they were both running very slowly and we definitly needed to improve on our lines and ques.

19th March Tech Rehearsal

Today was our Tech rehearsal which was a very productive reheasral. Our aim was to get two whole run throughs completed by the end of today. We had worked very well as a group however we needed to have alot more confidence in using the props. The first run through we had excellent focus however most of the cast needs to learn their lines and ques. The second run through went much better seen as the rehearsal ran through very smoothly and most people practice learning their lines during the break we had between the two run throughs however we need to pick up the pace of the show so the energy doesn't drop.

Feedback:
-Project our voices, so our voices are heard over the music
-Stay in character in something goes wrong
-Take more care where putting things down
-Much bigger physically and vocally
-Always be careful of sight lines
-Very good at the little beggar
-Es-Sindibad wonderful to watch
-Envious Sisters...Characters needs to be quicker on the que lines.

15th March Gavin

Today we had ran through the whole show seen as we had blocked everything and now all we needed to do is improve everything that needs improving. i feels that this run through was very poor because no-one was used to the flats yet.

In the first act i think the characterisation was at a very poor level as people were very unfocused, however during the second act the energy was kept at a very high standard and it was flowing quite well.

12th March Gavin

In today's rehearsal I helped out create 'The Story of the Envious Sisters'

usually Shanice, Becca and Laura had the roles for the sisters however Shanice and Laura were unable to turn up to the rehearsals but the story had to be created asap. I offered to help and step in for Laura and Paige also offered to help and step in for Shanice.

We started acting out the scene with help from Gavin.





Shanice had come back from being late to rehearsals and played her origianl role.
Gavin noticed how well i was playing the role and asked if i could take that role instead of Laura, I accepted.