Take a look at a little bit of what you can expect when you come to see Cinderella at Thomas A. Stewart Secondary school December 14th-16th, 2017!
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As our opening nights gets closer our rehearsals get longer and this past Sunday rehearsal was the longest one yet! Some of started off the day at 10am painting the beautiful sets. While the rest of us arrived at noon for a full run thru and choreo cleaning. At five we had a break to relax and enjoy some yummy pizza together. When it was time for us to do our sitzprobe we headed up to the music room to meet our fantastic band for the first time! After three and a half hours of singing with the band we were all pretty tired, but happy that we finally got to sing with them, and we all headed home at 9:30. A sitzprobe is a seated rehearsal where we all sit and sing with the band to pay attention to detail because singing with the real thing can be really different from sing with a recording or an awesome pianist. The reason it took three and a half hours is because we went through every single song at least two or three times and some of our songs are very long. Despite being a long night we brought all the energy we had and we definitely brought it. “It went exceptionally well. It’s always very exciting to have the band and the cast together for the first time. My favorite moment is the very first song that the band plays that the cast gets to hear and how excited everyone gets because it’s pretty fun.” -Mrs.Tye Ms.Tye was right because after singing the first time with the band it gave us all a bunch of energy and we all sang the loudest we have ever sang before it truly was magical. We are extremely grateful for the band because they’re all volunteering their time from their busy lives to help us with our musical. A lot of the members of the band are actual professionals and are lead by the best conductor ever Mr.Jackson who has also been our amazing vocals teacher for our musical, along with Justin Hiscox who has been helping with the music and playing the piano for us since day 1. After hearing our singing at its best put with the band's amazing playing we all know that ‘It’s Possible’ that we are going to be putting on the best production of Cinderella yet.
Written by McKie Dummitt and Sophie Botting With only three weeks until our production opens, our whole show has been blocked, organized, and rehearsed. Now, we focus on cleaning, and talk more in depth about the intentions behind each movement our characters make or the lines that we have. This week, we began rehearsing full run throughs for the first time since the stumble through. During a run through, we work with both Ms Tye, our director, our music director, Mr Jackson, and musician Justin Hiscox. Running the musical from the top of act one to the very end of act two is exhilarating, and gives the cast a taste of how shows will run by helping us to orchestrate set changes, see what works, and what needs to be adjusted to make the final production seamless and fluent. Set changes are often first attempted in their entirety during the first run of the show, and we begin determining which people are available and needed to ensure each piece is brought on and off stage quickly and safely. When asked how she feels the set changes went, our stage manager Faith Morales said, “I think overall the set changes went exactly how they should on the first run through. There were definitely some things we need to polish. It’s great to have this it’s finally done and on stage so we can figure out our placements”. Each time we practice now, we will be making sure individuals can adequately complete each change and A run through is very helpful at this stage of the rehearsal process. We ran the show in full to understand the flow of each scene, get comfortable with our transitions, and work on putting all of the pieces together to formulate a professional-grade production. The significance of a run through is widely understood; Grace DeMara, our Cinderella, said, “I think the run through was very important to the progression of the musical, and gave us a great idea of what we are doing well and what we need to improve on. It can be a little discouraging when it doesn't go as smoothly as we hoped, but everyone was incredibly encouraging and understanding when things went wrong. I believe it helped us grow as a cast as well as brought us one step closer to putting on an amazing show!” This is a major step towards perfecting our musical and preparing for the upcoming shows with a full audience. After our run through our director, Sarah Tye, gathered the full cast to go over notes she had taken while watching our first run through. We sat in a circle as she gave us constructive criticism and we discussed what areas are our strongest and weakest to later improve upon. Tye commented on how we did well with characterization as well as our overall flow. In the upcoming weeks we plan to continue practicing singing while performing our dance numbers as well as smooth and polish any other patches Tye thinks are rough. Written by Alivia Buchan & Dhilan Maharaj |
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