Production: Spring Awakening by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater
Rehearsal Week 1
by Helen Hart (Wendla)
What an exciting week it has been for Spring Awakening! After a week or so of note-bashing the show is finally getting on it's feet. The rehearsals so far have been intense yet incredibly good fun, with a very enthusiastic atmosphere.
Today we looked at an exciting & energetic scene within the show (which includes the song 'My Junk.') This proved to be a hilarious rehearsal in which we used water bottles as microphones, a rostra block as a 'bridge' and two office swivel chairs as 'moving school desks'... talk about creativity! (Creative ideas courtesy of Andrew Panton, our director.) The scene is performed by the full company and includes a student fantasising about his piano teacher and another boy getting up to no good in the privacy of his bathroom with his father angrily banging on the door.
The music is really starting to come together and you can hear people starting to take ownership of their vocal lines now that they are more comfortable with them. The highlight of the day had to be when Paul (adult male & Otto) walked onstage and delivered his line in an irish accent because he got momentarily confused which musical we were doing!... An Australian actor delivering a line in Irish within a German show! Priceless!
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