Musical Theatre (39) - Evaluation

What went well:

• The lighting was very effective. We all also managed to remain in the correct places, for the majority of the time, to allow us all ot be lit.
• We all have a good relationship off of the stgae, and these translated to when we were on stage. We all worked well together and our character relationships were believable.
• The majority of us could be heard throughout the majority of the show.
• We all stayed in character throughout the entire play.
• The dancing in "Tango: Maureen" was probably one of the best times we have done it! We really worked on our character relationship and our intentions. We both also worked hard on our breathing and general use of breath, so we still had enough breath to sing at the end of the number, having done all of the dancing. 
• Although I ended up using the wrong phones during "We're Okay", I styled it out, and made it look like Joanne was getting confused on what she is talking about, rather than myself! There is a fairly long musical interlude in the middle of the song, but I filled this by pretending my father had said something amusing, and I was laughing at him. I thought this worked quite well with my character as she doesn't want to disappoint her parents. 
• Alice and I really got in to "Take Me or Leave Me". Despite having technical difficulties with the track going quiet in places, so we struggled to hear it, we remained in character throughout and really bounced off of each other. I think we used the space quite well, when going through the audience - we didn't leave our backs to one area for too long.
• I think our overall energy levels, as a cast, were really strong. 
• The audience all really enjoyed it, and we received some lovely feedback.
• We raised a lot of money for our desired charity - Royal Marsden.

What could have gone better:

• We had some technical issues with sound during this performance. Where we were playing our backing tracks through Lewis's phone, his notifications went off a few times during the performance! He had put his phone on "do not disturb" but it still managed to go off. We couldn't put in on airplane mode because this would have turned off the Bluetooth and disconnect it from the speaker. What we could have done was turn the internet off on his phone to avoid any Facebook messages coming through.
• At some points, it was difficult to hear some people, so they should have been positioned nearer the microphones.
• Where some of the cast had never done a musical before, you could tell that they were nervous. At times, they were more focussed on getting the song to sound perfect rather than remaining I character and acting the song.

What we would have done next time: 

• If we were to do the show again / what we have learned from doing this show is that we should play our music through a laptop.
• To ensure EVERYONE can be heard at ALL times, we could have done more work on positioning, to ensure that we were all near a microphone whenever we were singing. Ideally we would have all had a headset mic each, but we didn't have the budget for this!