Chicago- Lesson 12

Chicago- Lesson 12

Today’s lesson was our dress rehearsal. In today’s lesson everyone was there which was really good as we had not had a proper run through with everyone there. We used lights and microphones so we could get use to these for the real performance. We thought that a dress rehearsal would be useful for everyone because it would be helpful for us all to get into character and we could get us to quick changes if anyone had them.  Also in this lesson we had Ralph playing the piano which meant this was our first rehearsal with him and a piano.

We started running through the whole performance and our first song was “All That Jazz”. We all had the same costume which we had all bought in which I thought looked really good because we all looked the same which was what we were going for. Our first run through of this song was good as we had not run through with Ralph before so we had to make sure everything was in the same place for both of us. For the song “Cell Block Tango” I was in the same costume which meant I did not have a quick change. This run through did not go as well as it could of because some people forgot what we were doing which then made it difficult to see whether Ralph was in time with us.

Another thing which we needed to work on were our transitions between scenes and songs as at the minute they were taking a long time which meant in the real performance if they took that long then audience would get bored and it would not look professional.