REHEARSALS, REHEARSALS, REHEARSALS

Monday 18^th of March 2013:

This week our main goal was to finish rehearsals and get the commedia piece finished. Mr.Fearnehough was not here on Monday so we decided to carry on the list of improvements we had. One of the main things was to cut down the piece because we had so much. We also fixed the love scene and managed to make it funny we went by this and made Abby and Mary act it out and then we would each say a positive and something they could change to make it better. We also removed the Zanni out of this scene because it did not work as well as in rehearsals and personally I’m glad because I’m a Zanni and I am in practically every single scene. We then added the Zanni at the end of the scene when Jack asks Rose to the Cinema.

Wednesday 20^th of March 2013:

When Mr.Fearnehough gave us his feedback he said that he was a bit confused with the last scene and to be honest we were too. So as an ensemble we decided to work on the last scene and make sure that not only the audience understood but we did aswell. We changed the scenery around to show exactly that we had changed setting and we were no longer at the cinema but at rose’s home. We added a humour bit where Mickey tries to reach over for Rose but is just pushed to the ground in an FBI way by the Zanni and is then dragged off by them.  Mr. Fearnehough also said that it would be good to add an incredible ending and we decided we should use a music number and came up with the song ‘I’m A Beleiver’ from the film Shrek. We decided that we were going to choreograph a dance and dance with the audience. We are a bit nervous that certain audience members will not be comfortable with doing this which could ruin our light-hearted fun-filled and extravagant ending. 

Thursday 21th of March 2013:

We decided to finally bring the music in which I am so happy about, Axel and I had the role of sound and I personally wanted to add the music as soon as possible so there could be lots more enthusiasm on stage. The music we used worked really well and it made everything so much more fun and interesting to act to. For the first Zanni scene with Mickey we wanted a fighting song and we came up with the ‘Eye of the Tiger’ which worked perfectly and Lydia and me didn’t even plan this but we came up with synchronised moves when the music came on which we are now going to use in our piece. Another piece of music we are using is ‘I Believe in Miracles’ which is played in the scene where Rose and Jack meet for the first time which was HILARIOUS TO WATCH. The music worked so well and was so funny to watch the two lovers meet.  Axel surprised us by playing the JAWS theme when Rose’s father finds the two lovers at the cinema, using this showed how angry he was to find them there.  At the end of the scene we played the ending song and it was funny to watch some people that didn’t know the moves properly which made it funnier to watch!