In this, I sang in the ensemble songs as a man and a woman. I feel that because I wasn't on a lot I was able to sing offstage to boost the sound on stage, I think that because of the group we were able to create a good sound that leads to the show getting good feedback. For example that the sound was good but the last song seemed to have some confusion of the words. I think the energy was lacking for a lot of the show rehearsals but everyone stepped up and put in loads of energy for the actual shows.
I was singing offstage a lot but this boosted the volume and my family commented on the volume saying how it was loud.
So Sing Evaluation
In this, we started the piece with Wake me up, then we went into This is me, Then changing and Everything you didn't do. I had a solo in Wake me up which I feel went well and then joined in with Lily for the start of this is me as a trio. I then did a lower harmony in everything you didn't do which I think could be heard well because of the singers that were singing it, For example, Charlotte and Fran. I think both performances of our piece went well and we got a good reaction from them. One piece of feedback I got was that it was good and the songs flowed well into each other.
Rehearsal footage
https://www.facebook.com/IsabelMillieKing/videos/1679674978722464/
20-minute musical evaluation
In this, I played Adelaide and Rusty Charlie and sang as both. I sang Fugue for tin horns as Rusty Charlie and Marry the Man today as Adelaide with Sarah. Marry the man today was not recorded due to not having enough space on the memory card so we don't have from sky asking Sarah to go to Havana. We chose the songs by giving everyone a chance to sing, I suggested the songs because of the pitching of them and also that they start and finish the musical. Also, many of the numbers are ensemble numbers and require more people in the songs to get them to the best they could be and not look like the stage was empty. We chose these songs as it gave all of us the chance to do some singing in the mini-musical thus giving us all equal amounts to do. I think that Fugue for Tinhorns went well besides the fact that I forgot some of the lyrics. Marry the man today went well and this was because of our characterisation and the reactions from the audience. They laughed a lot throughout because of our over the top characterisation and the lines in our mini-musical. We had few rehearsals and in this, we decided on harmonies by just singing the songs. For Marry the man today we decided I would take the higher part at the end of the song as I knew it better than Charlotte. Because of the duet with me and Charlotte, I chose to take the smaller part in Fugue for Tinhorns and to harmonise the ending by going lower.
I feel that I did a lot of the decision making in this as I did the script and chose the marry the man today. I feel like I could have had more help in this as they told me after the first draft that I needed to change some of the parts of it and we would have then been able to start rehearsing earlier. When choosing the songs we had to give everyone a chance to sing meaning that me Dom and Jaime were fine but charlotte had nothing, so having knowledge of the songs in the musical meant that I could suggest one that wasn't too long but was good for charlotte. I checked this with charlotte to see if this was ok and we decided that as long as we work on the vocals it will be This song was a duet however good. and it is an interaction between Sarah and Adelaide so I needed to sing it with her. I feel that Charlotte could have used more facial expressions and been louder however I knew that she wasn't too confident with the song so I feel that with more rehearsal this would have been better. I feel that Jaime could have improved his facial expressions and worked on his body language in Fugue for Tinhorns. Dom could have worked on his facial expressions and body language in the songs but in terms of singing I feel that there isn't much he should change.
I feel that I did a lot of the decision making in this as I did the script and chose the marry the man today. I feel like I could have had more help in this as they told me after the first draft that I needed to change some of the parts of it and we would have then been able to start rehearsing earlier. When choosing the songs we had to give everyone a chance to sing meaning that me Dom and Jaime were fine but charlotte had nothing, so having knowledge of the songs in the musical meant that I could suggest one that wasn't too long but was good for charlotte. I checked this with charlotte to see if this was ok and we decided that as long as we work on the vocals it will be This song was a duet however good. and it is an interaction between Sarah and Adelaide so I needed to sing it with her. I feel that Charlotte could have used more facial expressions and been louder however I knew that she wasn't too confident with the song so I feel that with more rehearsal this would have been better. I feel that Jaime could have improved his facial expressions and worked on his body language in Fugue for Tinhorns. Dom could have worked on his facial expressions and body language in the songs but in terms of singing I feel that there isn't much he should change.
Musical variety Show Evaluation
In the rehearsal process, I feel that we worked too much on revolting children and hard knock life and left a lot of stuff to the last week or to for the first time run them in a full run of the show. This made us have little time to work on our characters as we were not getting time to run the scene with the correct people when we were not thinking about when we were next on or on when we have quick changes. However, I think our group rehearsals for the initial songs went well and gave us time to develop our characters for these specific scenes and songs.
I think my contribution and teamwork on the production was good, I feel that I was a team player and was able to overcome issues both personal and as a group. I created a set plot for this specific show which helped with the set transitions from song/scene to scene/song. I also wrote one of the scenes for the production which meant we had a production that flowed.
I don't really think I lead the group at any point but I definitely helped in the creating process. I think I wrote the scene I wrote well as it was one where my character wasn't in her natural environment and was in Deadwood city.
I think I portrayed my characters well but I could have improved them by looking more into their physicality and vocal than I did to become the character. I found it hard in the production to do Revolting children in the shoes I was wearing because I didn't have time to change them in my quick change. I also think my vocals in this song were not great because of the pitch of the song as I normally sing alto. I found most of the songs a little high for me but I persisted and did the best I could in that situation. My speaking vocal could have been improved for Sarah purely because of my accent as I think I went a little British at times in the scene. In terms of my vocal in Fugue for Tinhorns, I found that it sat well in my vocal range and it went well on the night. I did get some feedback on this song because all you could hear was Jaime in our first show because of his microphone but this was fixed for the second show. I think at times the spacing wasn't great but this was because of adrenaline and how much we were enjoying performing this show. When thinking about movement, I think the dances went well and the choreographed dance numbers for our dance unit went well and had the correct stylisation in them. In terms of dialogue(diction and projection), I think I had the correct amount of diction and volume for the roles as they both had an authority and Sarah Brown has a mind that isn't clouded by fear.
In terms of feedback people said that it was hard to keep up with but was good. Also that people couldn't understand what was being said. These were valid points as it was hard to keep up with from an actors point of view as well. All that the volume could have been better for certain songs
Playlist with the videos of the variety show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSoZ-F8gD_o&list=PLl8RU1N6TfpLyaYJFWEJshhnrPGNBJ1nm
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