Musical Theatre

Musical theatre Matilda the musical the school song This lesson we were focusing on the dancing and getting more choreography learnt, we started off with a few vocal warm ups including scales and tongue twisters, then we incorporated physical warming up into it as well by running on the spot, jumping etc. Then we split into our two groups but still in the same room and the alphabet blocks were introduced after we’d ran through our choreography to get back into it, after we found out how the blocks worked we went ahead and learned a new section of choreography using them, after going through each group, we then went ahead and rehearsed the full choreography with the blocks full out and discussed it.

Musical theatre Matilda the Musical  In today’s lesson we began with a vocal physical warm up to prepare our voices and bodies to sing to our best ability and then we split into our groups and went off into different rooms to rehearse the school song, this lesson we were focusing on the singing aspect and we also worked on the high and low scale of the music making sure everyone knew their parts and what they were doing, we ran through with full out singing and then after rehearsing we showed the other group at the end of the lesson.

In this lesson we mainly focused on the dancing element of the school song and we focused on character building, after rehearsing initially a few times we went onto a devising task, we were already in two groups and then we went on to set about making up a short devised piece that showed specifically the relationship between the big kids and the little kids, in our group we had two little kids and the rest of us were big kids, we decided on making up a short scene where we were playing stuck in the mud and then when the little kids came in and asked to play, to show the ‘pecking order’ of the children that had just come to the school and who had already been there a while, the big kids circled threateningly around them and started talking and jeering at how they thought they had the audacity to ask if they could play with them, then they ran off in spiteful laughter, after we had rehearsed this, we showed it to the other group and then they showed theirs, after some discussion of char...

Musical theatre Matilda the Musical  This lesson we focused on the singing aspect of the school song and we did breathing through the abrupt pitch changes in the song, we started with a piano scales led vocal warm up and we discussed alterations of the key changes for different ranges, then we split into the same two groups and began rehearsals focusing mainly on the singing and we also talked about different harmonies after we’d gone ahead and learnt the last part of the song and we put in higher and lower parts for everyone to be able to achieve then we ran through some choreography and made sure our timing and breathing points in the singing worked properly 

Musical theatre Matilda the Musical  This was our second rehearsal for the school song and we also spent half the lesson working on our performer PowerPoint presentations, we ran through with the music and made sure we knew the choreography and which move fit with each specific lyric, it is still in the early days so we polished it off more and got to know it better with new spacing with everyone in a formation as we dance.

Musical theatre Matilda the Musical  This was our first rehearsal for the dancing section of the school song, we did a warm up and proceeded to split into the same groups of big children and little children and then we started to learn the choreography which went really well, then we showed each half of the class how far we’d got, i am still working on my acting as i have mostly set the facial expressions for my big kid character as i know what to base it off.

Musical theatre; Matilda the musical school song In this lesson we initially warmed up, went over diction, breathing and annunciation, because this is essential for the song that we are learning which has a fast pace and high pitch throughout, our vocal warm up was with the piano and then we split into two groups and rehearsed the song which we divided into characters, basically working on getting choreography cleaner, and later performed to the other half of the class, i think i can do really well in this piece but would like to improve my stage presence even when I'm in the back so that i get a better grade because people can see me.