"Pretty Women": Rob and Lewis sang through this song today as they hadn't done it for a little while. It actually sounded really good. They both know all of their lyrics off by heart and are confident with the harmonies.
Backing tracks: We have now managed to find backing tracks for almost all of the songs now, which are good quality tracks. They are the movie versions so are all in the key we want them to be in. However, almost all of the tracks are on one long track, so I have to cut them on to separate tracks on audacity - though this is a lot easier than trying to find all different tracks and cutting them separately. I shall be cutting all of the tracks over the break.
The final song: We have cut a lot of the final song as we don't feel it is necessary, we don't have time to set it all and we don't want to use our additional cast members too much (as it would mean more rehearsals to fit them in, which we don't have time for). We have cut all of the lunatics section as it is not necessary and we don't have a chorus and we have cut the reprise of "Kiss me". We cut the dialogue between Todd and Johanna as it is not needed (because the audience is told earlier that Johanna would be brought there), so jumped from Todd killing the Judge to Mrs Lovett screaming "Die! Die! God in heaven - die!". This works quite well as it is the Judge that clings on to Mrs Lovett's skirt that makes her scream. We cut the final section of Tobias singing "pat-a-cake" as we felt this wasn't an effective ending (as we had already agreed previously that we were going to cut the epilogue) - we thought it would be nice to end it on Rob singing the word "naive", and then James killing him and running away.
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