Little Shop of Horrors - Improvents for future rehearsals

In our previous lesson we spent half of the lesson doing doing vocal practice and then we ran through the songs in a chronological order. When doing this we sung along with the cast version and then we sang as a company to the instrumental tracks which we found were a lot more fast and upbeat so it meant that we had to speed up the dialogue that was included in the songs. Then we ran through Act 2 in which we came across songs and dances that we have recently been rehearsing which meant that we are maintaining the dance moves and not forgetting them.

One thing that I want to work more on is dances that we haven't done in a while as I want to try and keep them as fresh in my mind as possible because when we last ran through skid row some people had forgotten some of the moves which meant we had to just had to do a walk through if the dance and then we ran through it as if we were going to perform it and I think that it has helped quite a lot. So one thing I want to do in a future rehearsal is to just through all the dances we have done.

Little shop of horrors - Finale (Don't Feed the Plants!)

revolutionarts2016: Finale (Don't Feed the Plants!) rehearsal



 Here is the video for the song 'don't feed the plants' which is the finale song to the production. This is one of my favourite songs to sing/perform to as it has a lot of cheesiness in it which I find really funny and amusing. I've found that learning the lines for this song has been a lot easier than the others as I think that this song has a catchier tone to it so therefore I remember more of it

Little shop of horror - Vocals

In our last lesson, as a class we ran through a few of the songs and dances that we have covered ('Da Doo' and 'You never know') we worked on our vocals by going through the songs with the cast version and then afterwards we would sing them without the cast. This helps us as we can then allow ourselves to hear how well we are singing along to the song, how we need to improves our voices (weather we need to project it or change harmony etc).

Little Shop of Horrors - You never know

revolutionarts2016: 'Ya Never Know' Choreography


Don't it go to show you never know

For last weeks lesson we worked on finalising the dance 'you never know', for the process of learning this I thought it was very difficult as it has a lot of foot work and I find it a bit tricky as I'm not used to dancing in this face paced style, however I feel that it is a rather jolly song and I feel that once I get into the hang of it the moves then I'll feel more confident with the moves.

Little Shop of Horrors - Character Idea

In our last lesson we worked on developing our character as there were too many people thinking of similar characters, so I decided that I would be a school child that is doing homework/work in an alley way and is friends with a homeless man called Sunny, which makes him look intimidating however he's actually quite caring and gentle. He also goes skateboarding as a hobbie and he tends to just sit on his board and work. He doesn't like to go home as his  parents abuse him and he oftend spends nights in the alley way with Sunny.

Little shop of Horror - Finale

For the staging of the finale I think is actually and quite cheesy but I believe that is what the audience would want to see after seeing this kind of production. The bits I like in this is when we have to say 'this theatre' and we all jump up in the air to really show off the cheesynes of the show. I also like the movements that we do, such as whenever we say the name of a location like Peoria or New York ,we point in one direction and from the audience point of view it would look quite funny just to see if one kind of point and then like a freeze-frame.  Personally I actually quite enjoy singing this song because of the amount of cheesiness they can go into it, but also the vocals aren't actually that difficult for me.