We are coming to the end of our first week of rehearsals of Curtains! We've had a lot going on and we have absolutely hit the ground running! Read on for details of some of our adventures. Vocal Rehearsals: Mr. Jackson and our band leader Justin have been leading our class on working on some of our more challenging music in Curtains. One of them is "In the Same Boat Completed." Curtains takes place backstage at a theatre in Boston in 1959. The leading lady of their production Robbin Hood is murdered on stage on opening night! Detective Frank Cioffi (who is also in love with theatre!) is assigned to solve the crime. This song happens in Act 2, when Cioffi has been helping the director and performers create a more impressive song for Robbin Hood - taking the various early versions of "In the Same Boat" and combining them into one epic showstopper! Listen here for the Original Broadway cast singing the number! You'll have to wait until we've polished our vocals before you'll hear ours :) Parker, who plays detective Frank Cioffi says "I'm actually really enjoying [vocal rehearsals]." Parker is fairly new to singing, but is picking it up quickly! "I'm frustrated because I'm sick and I can't hit the notes I normally can right now, but I'm working on it and starting to get it." Choreography Rehearsals: Choreographer Simon has been leading our performers learning choreography for "The Woman's Dead" and the first two versions of "In the Same Boat." These numbers are pretty dramatically different from each other - "The Woman's Dead" is a somber, yet overly dramatic large group song, which both of these first versions of "In the Same Boat" are cute and peppy - very classic musical theatre! Chelsey is one of our dance captains - she and her co-captain Jade work to support Simon by reviewing the choreography with the group, or one on one with anyone who misses a rehearsal (we've had a lot of sick people this week!) Chelsey commented "[Choreography rehearsals] seem to be going smoothly. People are being intuitive and asking questions." Blocking Rehearsals: Director Ms. Sarah Tye has been leading scene rehearsals focused on blocking the show. Blocking is where every actor stands and moves on the stage. We've started with a couple of our larger group scenes in Act 1, which take place backstage at the Boston theatre. We've been having a lot of fun with the comedy of this show! Stage Manager Alex Dove says about blocking rehearsals, " I like being busy, so going between the pages and taking notes is really nice. When someone comes to me the next day I can just go back and say you're upstage left!" Production: All of the students in the course are also working on a production role, running all of the other departments that need to operate in order to produce a musical! We had our first production meeting on Thursday this week, where all of the staff and students who are heading up departments met to talk about things like deadlines and requirements to make sure everyone is on the same page - and if anyone was facing any challenges (such as the fact that we need over 10 Tuxedos for our men!) they could share them with the whole team, who could help problem solve. Visit our social media pages for some photos of students working on their production roles. Overall, it's been an awesome and busy first week!
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