Without you: I am not present in this number so I took the opportunity to observe it from an audience member's point of view and took the liberty of taking photos. This song is primarily about the death of Angel which should provoke a lot of sympathy and emotion throughout the song because Angel is seen to be the neutral character who is always there to help people and never seems to complain, hold grudges and is only full of love. I think they pull this off very well and it is a great send for the character, and it is very emotional form start to finish. When Collins carries Angel to his/her death bed showing no signs of struggle whatsoever, shows that this man truly loved Angel, he'd clearly put himself in harms way for Angel. Towards the end, everyone has left except Collins and Benny, who stays not only out of respect for both Angel and Collins, but also to comfort Collins too. We see this in their physicality and proximity, when Benny gently puts his hand on Collins' shoulder and he responds by hugging Benny showing a tremendous amount of respect for who Benny really is: a good, loving and caring man. During this number, Joanne and maureen
I'll cover you (reprise): This song is the funeral of Angel - we all stand together around Angel's death bed, and then when Collins begins to sing, we all take a step back to reveal Angel behind us and we look in towards Collins to highlight his space and him. Further in the song, Angel stands up on the block to join Collins in singing, this represents Angel's role - always looking over us and looking after us. Always has his head up and optimistic
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
Wednesday, 7 December 2016
RENT - A few act 2 songs 7/12/16
La Vie Boheme - I think today was one of the worst practices of this song in terms of energy and staging, I think maybe people just weren't feeling it today, but regardless this does need more rehearsal time. Also we were told that we all need to make sure we go over and remember our lines confidently for this song especially because there are a lot of very wordy parts like the 'bisexuals, transsexuals, homo sapiens' part - and we need to work on our articulation on this number because I sometimes find it hard to actually understand what some people have said.
One of the main notes we got was about professionalism and our lack of it; when we have finished a scene/song we need to quietly move off stage without taking or asking 'what's next?', and we should of our scripts every rehearsal an never lose them. We were also told that we need to learn the dialogue between the songs, not just the songs and dialogue within the songs. I think that these bits of dialogue never really crossed us because we only ever really look at the songs in class and only the songs.
I also took the opportunity to go and see Mr Quinn about setting out microphones on the stage so that we can be heard better. We decided to set out 4 condenser mics at the front of the stage (condenser mics are designed to pick op sound in a large space) because everyone will be singing towards the front any way so it shouldn't make much of a difference when people are towards the back and people towards the front.
Goodbye love - now that people were at least a lot more familiar with the song, we were able to try and do this properly. This song is primarily an argument between us, and I see people getting close to people's faces and in terms of proxemics, this shows that they're not afraid to stand up for themselves. At the part where Mimi, Maureen and Joann sing "I'll be happy to die for a taste of what angel had, they come forward as one. I like this because they come together as one and move downstage which just really highlights not only for them singing it just, but it highlights what they are singing too. During the argument of Mark and Roger during this song, we decided to have very little movements at first but as the argument gets more heated and good, we move on and towards and around each other a lot more, and we include physical contact, for example, when Henri sings about me bing a 'failure' I begin to walk out the apartment to show that I can't listen to what my bets friend had=s to say about me anymore, but Henri pushes me back to show that he is not done and that he feels strongly about what he has to say and he wants desperately wants to get it off his chance. For voice, we used the same kind of concept as we did for the movements, as the argument gradually becomes more heated and tense, we both increase our voice dynamics to show that we are really getting personal and we really mean what we say. For example, when I say "Hey! ...who's heading out of town", I shout the first "hey!" because it will really grab the audiences attention and instead of a gradually build up the shouting, I hit them with it so suddenly they will hopefully feel a bit shocked because it's unexpected and the first time we've seen Mark like this.
One of the main notes we got was about professionalism and our lack of it; when we have finished a scene/song we need to quietly move off stage without taking or asking 'what's next?', and we should of our scripts every rehearsal an never lose them. We were also told that we need to learn the dialogue between the songs, not just the songs and dialogue within the songs. I think that these bits of dialogue never really crossed us because we only ever really look at the songs in class and only the songs.
I also took the opportunity to go and see Mr Quinn about setting out microphones on the stage so that we can be heard better. We decided to set out 4 condenser mics at the front of the stage (condenser mics are designed to pick op sound in a large space) because everyone will be singing towards the front any way so it shouldn't make much of a difference when people are towards the back and people towards the front.
Goodbye love - now that people were at least a lot more familiar with the song, we were able to try and do this properly. This song is primarily an argument between us, and I see people getting close to people's faces and in terms of proxemics, this shows that they're not afraid to stand up for themselves. At the part where Mimi, Maureen and Joann sing "I'll be happy to die for a taste of what angel had, they come forward as one. I like this because they come together as one and move downstage which just really highlights not only for them singing it just, but it highlights what they are singing too. During the argument of Mark and Roger during this song, we decided to have very little movements at first but as the argument gets more heated and good, we move on and towards and around each other a lot more, and we include physical contact, for example, when Henri sings about me bing a 'failure' I begin to walk out the apartment to show that I can't listen to what my bets friend had=s to say about me anymore, but Henri pushes me back to show that he is not done and that he feels strongly about what he has to say and he wants desperately wants to get it off his chance. For voice, we used the same kind of concept as we did for the movements, as the argument gradually becomes more heated and tense, we both increase our voice dynamics to show that we are really getting personal and we really mean what we say. For example, when I say "Hey! ...who's heading out of town", I shout the first "hey!" because it will really grab the audiences attention and instead of a gradually build up the shouting, I hit them with it so suddenly they will hopefully feel a bit shocked because it's unexpected and the first time we've seen Mark like this.
Monday, 5 December 2016
RENT - Goodbye love 5/12/16
Today we worked on this song properly, mainly just vocals because we didn't really know it that well so it was appropriate to mainly focus on developing voice.The only evaluation I have for this number is that we all need to learn it properly - we will never know our strengths and weaknesses in this number if we don't know it so we just need to learn it.
We then went over Happy new year B a couple times, and the first time we did it there was a big proble with everyone's vocals - we were out of time a lot, a few of us were not singing in tune and some people still need to a) learn the lyrics and b) open up their mouths when they sing so we hear a much cleaner and confident voice. I just need to look at the timings of my lines in this song becasue I was always either too early or too late.
New setlist
Due to a lot of us not knowing some of the songs, and our desired performance date approaching very soon, Dan and Mr Webb had been forced to cut a lot of songs from the show in boths acts:
Act 1
We then went over Happy new year B a couple times, and the first time we did it there was a big proble with everyone's vocals - we were out of time a lot, a few of us were not singing in tune and some people still need to a) learn the lyrics and b) open up their mouths when they sing so we hear a much cleaner and confident voice. I just need to look at the timings of my lines in this song becasue I was always either too early or too late.
New setlist
Due to a lot of us not knowing some of the songs, and our desired performance date approaching very soon, Dan and Mr Webb had been forced to cut a lot of songs from the show in boths acts:
Act 1
- Tune up 1
- Voice mail 1
- Tune up 2
- Rent
- Tune up 3
- One song Glory
- Light my candle
- Voice mail 2
- Today 4 U
- You'll see
- Tango: Maureen
- Life support
- Another Day
- Will I?
- Santa Fe
- I'll Cover You
- We're okay
- Over the moon
Act 2
- La Vie Bohme
- Voice mail 3
- Happy New year B
- Take me or leave me
- Without you
- Voice mail 4
- I'll cover you (reprise)
- Goodbye love
- Seasons of love A
I can see exactly why songs have been cut, but cutting What you own has greatly annoyed me because a) me and Henri both know it very and have spent quite some time on it previously trying to get the vocals right and harmonies sound good, and b) I feel this song would really bring out all my skills I have worked on in this unit and I could really show off what I can do, I find it very hard to do this with the other songs because I don't really understand them as well as I do for What you own (so yes I do need to do more thorough research on the other songs)
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