We began doing our
fully costumed and lights run through. Personally, I think this run through went
well as we were all prepared for it and felt confident in this run though.
There was one section which I messed up though which was in the reporter’s
scene as I placed my chair in the wrong place which meant me and Nikki got
mixed up. It was completely my fault and I had not done this before so I knew
it was my mistake but it was an easy one which can be fixed in the real
performance.
It then came to our
real performance. I was really nervous as I always get before any performance but
I know nerves are good and it means I will have to work harder.
Our first number was “All
That Jazz”. Overall this number went really well as this is the one we had
rehearsed the most and for the longest. I felt like we needed more sass in it
though which can be worked on for future performance’s. It then can to “Cell
Block Tango”. This is the song I was most nervous about as I had my monologue
to perform within it. The audience had to wait a long time for some performers
of this song to come on as they had a microphone change which was really quick.
After watching the performance back, it took over 1 minute for some performers
to come on which is way to long for a black out. For me it was not a problem as
I did not have a quick change. Personally, for me I think my monologue went
really well. I know that I talked really quick and that is because I was nervous
but I was happy that I had remembered all my words. Also, I did not manage to
get the accent which disappointed myself as I really wanted to be able to do it
but I just could not get it. Also, there were performers in my group who were
singing the wrong lyrics really loud which put the rest of us off which then
made us get some of the lyrics wrong. After that number I had a bit of a gap
and my next scene was reporters. In the reporter’s scene I remembered to put my
chair in the correct space which meant there was not a mix up with chairs in
the scene and that scene ran smoothly as we all remembered our lines as they
were only short and quick. From this scene it led into the song “Roxie” which I
was playing a boy in, again this was a small role but I manage it well and
remembered everything which I needed to. I think I could have acted more within
this scene but I find it really hard to act a boy as I am a really girly girl
but I tried my hardest at what I could.
Targets-
Short term- My short
term target is that I need to work more on my confidence so that I can play a
character to my full potential as I know that my confidence is holding me back.
Long term- My long
term goal is to keep working on learning new things such as accents as I cannot
do them and I feel as though if I want to give a better performance then I need
to work on new things like that.
