Group
With the date of performance tomorrow, our group spent the massive emphasis of today's rehearsal on running through our achieved material, ensuring it all sounded good. We also rehearsed our dialogue frequently to ensure we knew our lines thoroughly. When performing our songs, we agreed that "I'd do Anything" was almost ready, the only thing we needed to work on (and did) was energy. We focused on using more open body language and connecting with the roles to make the extract more entertaining. For Fagin's verses in "You've Got To Pick A Pocket Or Two", I experimented with smiling broadly and being hyperbolic in my moments to create a more cheery and intriguing demeanour. I believe that this will be an effective, last-minute inclusion into our extract as it will ensure the extract we perform will fascinate the audience, allowing our capability as actors to flourish.
For tomorrow, we just need to ensure the energy we gave this rehearsal is conveyed to the audience and that my Cockney accent is solid.
Solo
I had to replace Matt as Judge Turpin for my solo performance with Jack, this was because of the difficulty in learning the song and the delay it would cause of learning it tomorrow. With Jack, we were successful in immediately learning the song together and as a result, we could attempt staging out the song "Pretty Women", which will be a table and chair in the centre of the stage. When working on our use of voice in "Pretty Women", we harmonised on a low tener octave throughout the majority of the song, ending the song with a harmony where Jack sang a high note whilst I sang a tener. When listening to our singing of "Pretty Women", I will argue the duo voices worked extremely well and the subtle movements I had worked on 2 weeks prior worked very well with the song.
In regards to "Epiphany", it still sounded and looked well made and with frequent practise today, I was confident that song was ready for next. One thing I did try today that I thought was effective was I sang the lyric "I want you bleeders" in the song in a completely different pitch, singing it in a strong baritone growl. I felt this was extremely effective as it was a very unsettling lyric as a result and would be effective in scaring the audience. Last final notes for my rehearsal process before tomorrow is to make sure my singing voice is not hindered by the shouting and growling I do to some of my lyrics.
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