Cort Room Dance and Singing Rehearsal

This afternoon I began learning the first part of choreography and song I am properly involved in. This is in the second section of the play when Paul is transformed to the book of alice in Wonderland where there is  trial going on about who stole the Queen of Hearts tarts.
In this scene I am a jurer. This means that I do not have a speaking role but am very much involved in the demanding part of the jury ensemble. After learning the very face paced song 'Guilty' , we began to piece three sections of choreography to the three different sections of the song. the first part of cheorgrpahy is very sharp and rigid , this goes along with the part of the song which begins the routine and is then a constant under current to the rest of the songs versus. We then moved on to a much more bouncy part of Choreography alongside the first verse of the very fast  part of the song. Finally we learned a much more fluid dance to go with the last section of the song.

Initially I found the cheorgrahy very hard to pick up as though the movement itself was simple the pace at which were learning it and the pace of the dance itself was very confusing. This was highlighted with the fact that we were learning cheorgraphy to three sections of the song which all had a different feel in tempo and pace and fluidity. To create a busy bustling cort room we then mixed up different groups of people with different sections of song and dance. Meaning the whole room was filled with chaos which had to be extremely organised and perfect in order to look good. Also as i have never done musical theatre before learning to dance and sing at such a high pace was a struggle as i was very tempted to focus on just one element meaning often my singing volume would be very low and words unclear.

However though thew rehearsal was very challenging nearing the end I felt myself beginning to get the hang of it which was very encouraging. The challenge now is to keep going over it and making sure I have not forgotten any of it by Fridays rehearsal.