Little Shop of Horrors

Today we worked on figuring out our characters characteristics, I have two characters, the plant and then just a random man on the street with everyone else, we all worked out what our characters were for when we stand around, I came up with a man on his break, he works in the shop he's standing outside but because he has no customers he's constantly on his break.
After we sang through 'WSKID/ Ya never know' its my homework over half term to choreogrpah something for you never know, doesn't have to be too dancey but I think I will make it a little more dancey then Skid Row and Da-doo
then we kept going through the dialogue until we got to 'Closed for Renovation'

Don't Feed the Plants (Finale)

This is the finale, there a few things I need to add in but this is pretty much finished.

Dentist

This is the Dentist song, as you can see it's quite rough around the edges, the idea for the cannon part when they turn around is they have a picture of a mouldy tooth, and then when they look at their hand and point it to the sky, its a toothbrush.

Little Shop Of Horrors

Today we ran through the two numbers we did yesterday, we then filmed them. After this we started working on  'the meek shall inherit' this is quite a long song, but it was a fun one to do, the chorus is repeated throughout so it gives the ensemble something to do, I choreographed something very basic for us to do on the chorus and at the end when the chorus repeats but is slowed down.

Little Shop of Horrors

Today we ran through the finale song, we then roughly set the bows and where things are happening, I am yet to choreograph a small section for the end. After this we made a start on the dentist song, we roughly and quickly came up with basic choreography, I worked with the three girls and our teacher worked with the rest of the chorus, we still need to put a lot of work into that number but we set the whole thing and now its just going back in and making sure everything looks good and clean and funny.

Little Shop of Horrors

Today we ran through Act 2. We got through the whole act, leaving out the songs we haven't set yet, we did listen to one song which everyone is in, we then continued right through to the finale. After we had ran the whole act we decided to sing the finale, we sang this through a few times to get the feel of it and then we staged it, there isn't anything difficult or technical to this, its just people walking on and standing in their spot and singing, we also had the idea of everyone having a small plant pot with a small plant growing, these are supposed to be the snippets off Audrey 2. We also had the idea of everyone having blood on them of some sort, this represents that everyone is dead and that the plant has taken over.

I don't think this is a particularly long musical so its making it easy to get through, reading through it we all seem to be enjoying it and no one had complained yet which is good because it shows its a really good musical and if we are all enjoying it then I'm sure the audience will enjoy it too.
 

Little Shop of Horrors

Today we ran though everything, picking up where we left off last rehearsal, we managed to get through the whole of act 1, we missed out a few of the musical numbers we have not set yet but we did get through all the dialogue in between these numbers, so far I think this show is coming together well and will soon become a very good show, once everyone knows their lines and what we need to do I'm sure the show will be amazing.  

Little Shop of Horrors

Today, we ran through all the numbers we have set so far, from start to finish including all the dialogue in between each of the musical numbers, so far I think the show is really coming together and is already looking good.
We set the song 'Closed for renovation' I didn't prepare anything for this as I wanted to set myself the challenge of choreographing and thinking on the spot, this song isn't too long and doesn't really have a lot of dance content to it so I went for the more acting side so everyone can get into a character and hopefully make the audience laugh.

One thing I want to do in the future is maybe change some of the spacing in the dance 'little shop' a few people have caught my eye to be doing particularly well with the choreography and seem to be doing better then people that are in a line or two forward then them, the spacing itself wont change but I may swap a few people around.

Little Shop of Horrors

Today we rehearsed all the numbers we have set, this is Little Shop of Horrors, Skid Row and Da-doo. We then ran from the opening (little shop) right through to the end of Da-doo including all the dialogue in-between these numbers. I think over all this all went really well, the dances were good, they just need to be cleaned but the singing for Skid Row was quite bad so its clear we all need to run through the singing again.
After this I worked with most of the cast to clean Little Shop as people struggled with this number as its very dancey and quite fast, by the end of the rehearsal there was already a good improvement.   

We also found out today that we will always be on stage, every scene that goes on will have everyone on stage. We were told this was quite a Greek Chorus thing to do, it also allows us to all have more stage time.

Little Shop of Horrors

Today I taught the dance 'little shop of horrors' I made this number quite dancey, hopefully this will be a challenge for those that haven't danced before but also not too easy for those who do already dance, I tried to choreograph it so the audience would have fun watching it as it opens the show and it needs some wow factor to it.

I taught the whole dance, I probably taught it a bit too fast for some people but I'd rather it all be set and then go back and clean it properly when I have more time, I also didn't want to make the rehearsal boring by not moving on and staying on the same section. I had to simplify the start of the dance break for the back two lines in the spacing as hardly any of them could do it and were not only struggling with speed but also the choreography itself as some of them have never danced before.

I still need to work with the three girls to set some choreography, there are a few sections where I have asked them to do a more basic version of what the ensemble is doing so they are still able to sing but other then that I need to give them something interesting to do otherwise it might ruin the high energy effect if they just step click the whole time.

These are my choreography notes for this number