For this lesson, we were back in our normal room of the Gallery Theatre. We began this lesson with a quick vocal warm up as normal and then moved on to "La Vie Boheme". We spent a long time on this as we knew that last lesson it was really lacking energy and was quite weak. Therefore, we added a lot of movement in to the piece. However, whilst adding movement, we had to keep in mind that the characters supposedly sing this in the restaurant spontaneously. Therefore, all movement had to look spontaneous so we said roughly what we wanted to do, but left it up to each individual to do it in their own way (for example, we wanted people to move over to other people and interact with other people, however, we left it up to each person to decide how they will move and who they will interact with and how).
After "La Vie Boheme", we did "Santa Fe" again to ensure that we remembered our harmonies and the vocals were all okay. As we haven't done it for ages, we all sang through "Rent". We didn't bother staging it as we didn't know what our teacher would like us to do, so we just focused on getting the vocals right. Cameron and I also ran through "Tango: Maureen". We remembered all of our lyrics, but due to it being the wrong backing track, the dance itself wasn't brilliant as we kept getting lost. However, this won't be a problem once we have cut the backing track and begin working with the right one. This is one of the pieces that we shall keep running to improve our stamina and our ability to sing and dance at the same time.
Next lesson we shall perform "La Vie Boheme" to Mr Webb and Mr McKay to see if they are happy with the movement we have added. We shall also continue to work on our projection and energy in other numbers. Hopefully, we shall also stage the title number, "Rent".
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