7th Jan - rach

Today we did a run through of Act 2, to see where the weak points are and what we can slightly change and improve on. I also noted down points I personally need to work on

• Seasons Of Love; For this scene, we decided to choose a position and eye focus that we must maintain throughout, not looking around at the audience or directing at anyone. 
• Take Me Or Leave Me: There needs to be more tension and awkwardeness between Joanne and Maureen. I can take ideas from when I perform Tango Maureen and the hostility I have with Luke. I also need to work on the line "You're one lucky baby". As it leads into the high belting vocals, I worry about it before and when it comes to the line I'm too worried I won't be able to reach it. I need to just not think about the upcoming lyrics until I'm there, that way I will naturally go into it rather than planning it as it happens.
• Golf claps in Happy New Year: In this scene, Angel says "Golf claps" which we've decided that all the characters perform this gesture at that moment. Golf claps refers to a fake meaningless clap where you lightly tap your hands raised. 
• Happy New Year: Mark and Joanne will be handing out food to show more commotion and make it more obvious we're celebrating, as at the moment it's quite stationary and we are just walking around the space
• Goodbye Love: There needs to be more aggression, frustration and antagonism between the characters. We want the lyrics to sound more like an argument than just singing to each other, we want to be singing at each other.
• Between songs: We need to have a gradual dispersion between each song. For example, at the end of 'La Vie Boheme', we are going to hold our positions for 5 seconds, slowlylower our arms and step in, then lead off one by one USL in a line. It is important to to look messy at the end and stay in character or stay neutral.
• 2nd Christmas Bells: This was cut as it doesn't fit that well in our production, and as the Year 12s would be performing this we won't have enough time to rehearse it thoroughly with the music.