Final Week

On Monday 23rd March we started at 1pm and had a few hours to practice all our group songs and then went into the dance studio and performed them all, after doing them all Chloe sent us back upstairs to go through them again. When we came back to the dance studio, we sung out school song and then Chloe sent us home and advised us to drink lots of water.

On Tuesday 24th March, we did a whole run of the songs in the show...when we done cell block tango admittedly we haven't gone through it with Jodie so she was not sure what to do but we practiced after. Mine and kj's song had to be skipped cause our version of the song we use for earned it sounded funny on the speakers. My solo I was told that I sounded better but I need to perform more and stop keeping my hands behind my back. And me and Dean didn't get to perform our song as the piano was in the club room. 

On Wednesday it was tech run day, spent most of the day doing lights for the song, in cell block tango we have red lights, mine and deans duet is on the floor by the piano, mine and kj's has a mixture of blue and red and my solo is just blue. 

We then tried to do a run with all the songs and microphones unfortunately we only managed to get up to the second song in the second act as Chloe really needed to go to work. 

This is the running order: 

 

Act 1 -

Hello

Broken strings

Love is an open door

Ordinary people

Feeling good

The lazy song

Ruin me

Cell block tango

Heart and music

Who knew

We'll meet again

Something to believe in 

Tenerife sea

Pulled

Keep your head up

Act 2 - 

Gone in the morning 

All American profit

Earned it

Can't hurry love

Mamma knows best

The world will know

Make you feel my love

Yours

Santa Fe 

Real love

Uptown funk

School song

Freak flag

 

On the day of the show we had an early start as we had to finish early on the day before, we got our wireless microphones which made it a lot easier for us all to use and we did another run or two of the show. In this run, we used lights and acted as if it was the actual show (almost like a matinee) and as the hours went past, I got a lot more nervous.

 

Cell block tango really came along in the end which I was happy about because I was worried it would be cut last minute and that all the work we put in would be for nothing. In the show run that we did in the afternoon, I didn't give it my full 100% mainly because I could feel my throat starting to hurt and I didn't want too push myself.

 

I started getting really nervous but excited for the show as the hours went by. About 20 minutes before the doors opened we had a vocal warm up including our simple ones we usually do including some ones we did from panto. I had plenty of water and had it with me so that I could hydrate myself before I went on to do a song.