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.
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