It's not over until the....small children...sing :)

Friday 6/3 Rehearsal

Today marked the second rehearsal for B and B Jr.

We spent a good majority of the day working on the opening number (in terms of singing).  Surprisingly, the kids made it through a good portion of the day without scripts and doing rather well.  I'm chalking this up to the songs being very familiar, and them knowing the words from watching the movies.  However, towards the end of the day, it appeared that scripts at least for a few measures were necessary.

The choreographer was there today-she observed most of the day, taking notes.  She seemed a lot younger than I expected, but she also seemed very friendly.  I asked her many questions, wondering if she needed anything from me or Lana, asking her what she was thinking, any ideas that she had, and had little luck.  She looked over the DVD that came in the ShowKit, and was not particularly interested in using what she saw, so I'm not quite sure what she and Jenny are thinking of doing, but knowing their work from having seen some of thier dance recitals, I know it will be fantastic.

In order to make up for them not being at auditions, we had all of the kids get together to make a "dance party". I encouraged the children to, if they had it, show off their dance training.  Overall, the choreographer asked me the names of some of the children (I had given her a roster with their names, ages, and level of experience in acting/singing/dance but she needed to be able to put a name to a face) but other than that, I am actually quite unaware of what she gleaned from attending today's rehearsal.

For those students that are not in the opening number, I sent them out into the hallway and into the adjacent room to memorize.  Many of the older students have also asked about character creation techniques, and we have worked on objectives and figuring out exactly who their characters are.  Many of the older students are perspective theatre majors in college, and are eager to learn about acting exercises and how they can better create their characters.

I also talked to the older ones today about how to be a leader, and what I expected of them, and sort of officially gave them their unwritten roles as the older ones of the bunch.  They were all eager to participate, and will be a great asset to the show :)

I have begun to worry about the amount of time that I will have to complete the set.  Because I will not be in our space that we will be performing in until the 13th, I am worried that I will not have time to build all 3 sets that are needed.  I do have a tech team that I can call on, and am planning on putting out a call for parent help next week to come in and help us build sets, particularly the castle (which will be the biggest challenge).

That's all for now...more to come later!