Working out the technical elements 11/12/14

In todays lesson we worked out a lot of the technical elements within the play, mainly thinking about entrances and exits. All of my exits and entrance points worked well with each other, and it made it clear to the story what my character was doing. The only entrance that was a problem is when I exit from 'It takes two' and then come in straight for 'Stay with me'. I did not have enough time to get from exit point 1 which is through the audience and then come round onto stage on entrance 4 which is at the back of the stage. I then changed it that I came straight back in on entrance 1, just at a later time than I use to. I feel that coming in slower made the song change as it looked a lot more flowing and dreamy, rather than the sharp movements that we would sometimes do.

For the 'Stay with me dance' we were told that it was to be slower as this is how it is sang. To make my movements seem slower and more fluent, I came up with a separate story for my character to fit along side the lyrics, This was all about how The Baker wants his wife to stay with him and how he is sorry for how he treated her. I could tell that this was effective as at the end of the song  we partner up and have a small interaction with our partners, mine being the Bakers Wife. we then changed it to us coming together then slowly drifting away. We could tell that this was effective due to the other characters responses as we all began to work off each other.

I feel that during this rehearsal is when I first felt like the show came together as a whole, as people gave all of their energy and started to respond of others and the musical a compliment.