Do-doo

Today we ran through Skid Row a few times to make sure no one had forgotten but also to make sure its drilled into everyone's brains so it is perfect by the time we perform the whole show.
We then were set the task of setting Do-doo, I didn't have anything planned for this number choreography wise so luckily I didn't have to work with the whole cast, I only worked with the three girls and the rest of the cast did their own thing.
My inspiration for the three girls throughout the show is very back up singer movement, mostly step digs and bopping to the music, for this number I decided to let them move around a little bit more and also give them quite comical choreography.

When we put the three girls with the rest of the cast it fit together perfectly and we didn't have to change anything which was a relief. We then decided to put Skid Row on the stage and see if it all fit, again I was relived as I didn't need to make any changes and everyone adapted to the stage perfectly.

So far we have only set two numbers but I am happy with how it is coming together and it gives me hope that the rest of the show is going to be really fun to work on. Although I am worried Skid Row is a bit basic and there are a few places where there is waiting around the go into the next section.

Skid Row

Yesterday we sang through the song Skid Row as a whole class, this took the whole lesson as its a fairly long song and there are a few sections where it requires harmonies, this also took some time to work out as our class haven't really done singing like this before. I think we began to sound really good very early on and the song soon became to come together when everyone got the grasp on what to do. 
Today we then set the staging for this scene, I am the choreographer so I spent all evening Monday planning the staging for this. I didn't want to make this number too dance orientated as not everyone has had the dance training I have had but I also didn't want to make it very rigid and boring to I tried to create as much patterning and possible that only really involved walking around but hopefully looks effective. When teaching everyone today there was one or two things I did differently that were in my notes, I took one or two things out, changed how I was ending it but also added a few things in to add more to this number so again it wasn't just rigid and boring.

These are my choreography notes, I colour coded them so I would be able to clearly see the main patterning of people on stage, the ensemble were black, the three singing girls were pink and the two main principles (Seymour and Audrey) were blue, this also helped when drawing out small diagrams to be able to see who goes where.