Production: In Touch
Rehearsal Wk2
by Michael John Griesen (Friend)
Today we had our first read-through of the whole show. We read Act II as well even though we’re not doing that in the Fringe. It was fun because we could remember a lot of the Act II music from when we did it in March for New Musical Development. Jamie (who plays Mairin) brought in 3 containers of muffins; blueberry, chocolate chip, and toffee, and we ate most of them throughout the day. It was good to hear Ken's (Director) views on the play, and we discussed some of the character decisions that we could make. He then encouraged us to go away and research about our characters such as possible backstory, and avatars in general. Also, during the afternoon part of our rehearsal, England beat Slovenia and USA beat Algeria in the World Cup, so there was general rejoicing! More importantly we also had another look at the first act; the act we will be performing at the fringe. This was useful, as we were able to ammend and adjust any inconsistencies or practical problems in the script, such as smoking on stage! Though, in the long run that will be better for our voices if we're not smoking!!!
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Thursday, July 1, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
'In Touch'ing the High Notes
Production: In Touch by Dougal Irvine
(in assocation with Perfect Pitch)
by Rachel Middle (Alice) & Michael John Griesen (Friend)
Hi! We're Rachel and Mikey, and we're playing 'Alice' and 'Friend' (respectively) in "In Touch" at the Edinburgh Fringe. Look back at our blog regularly to check out all the crazy goings on with the cast and rehearsal process...
We had our first proper sing through of all the music on Saturday, it started off badly. There was noisy and smelly work going on just outside the building and after ten minutes of suffering we were finally driven out of our nice rehearsal space by the oily fumes that somehow managed to make their way through three closed windows. We relocated to a practice room in the depths of the RSAMD where we rehearsed 'David’s Birthday Poke' for a while. Our esteemed musical director is also called David, which is a continuing source of hilarity for us all. After a lengthy discussion on the exact rhythm of ‘Po po po po po poke’, we moved onto a run through, recorded by Candice with a high quality audio recording device owned by the department.
“Could we use this to record our rep sessions, David?” asked Paul curiously (Paul plays the Irish 'Eamonn' in the show)
“Yes.”
“Do we have any rep sessions left?”
“No.”
What a shame.
The music is fantastic and gets easier every time we do it, but we still struggle with the unusual time signatures and high notes, though a lot of Alice's notes have been put down an octave now. Byron (who plays 'Tony') needs to work very hard though because a lot of his notes are up where only the dogs can hear him, when we sing “Alive” he looks like he’s about to die, which is wonderfully ironic. It’s been a really good couple of weeks so far, we’re all on top of the music and looking forward to getting the songs up on their feet and learning more about what our director wants us to do.
In March we did a workshop of Act II of "In Touch" and we had to vibrate constantly when we were ‘online.’ It’ll be interesting to see what Ken Alexander (Director) wants the avatars to do this time, and more importantly, whether or not we will get a live horse on stage for the fringe. I obviously hope that we do.
(in assocation with Perfect Pitch)
by Rachel Middle (Alice) & Michael John Griesen (Friend)
Hi! We're Rachel and Mikey, and we're playing 'Alice' and 'Friend' (respectively) in "In Touch" at the Edinburgh Fringe. Look back at our blog regularly to check out all the crazy goings on with the cast and rehearsal process...
We had our first proper sing through of all the music on Saturday, it started off badly. There was noisy and smelly work going on just outside the building and after ten minutes of suffering we were finally driven out of our nice rehearsal space by the oily fumes that somehow managed to make their way through three closed windows. We relocated to a practice room in the depths of the RSAMD where we rehearsed 'David’s Birthday Poke' for a while. Our esteemed musical director is also called David, which is a continuing source of hilarity for us all. After a lengthy discussion on the exact rhythm of ‘Po po po po po poke’, we moved onto a run through, recorded by Candice with a high quality audio recording device owned by the department.
“Could we use this to record our rep sessions, David?” asked Paul curiously (Paul plays the Irish 'Eamonn' in the show)
“Yes.”
“Do we have any rep sessions left?”
“No.”
What a shame.
The music is fantastic and gets easier every time we do it, but we still struggle with the unusual time signatures and high notes, though a lot of Alice's notes have been put down an octave now. Byron (who plays 'Tony') needs to work very hard though because a lot of his notes are up where only the dogs can hear him, when we sing “Alive” he looks like he’s about to die, which is wonderfully ironic. It’s been a really good couple of weeks so far, we’re all on top of the music and looking forward to getting the songs up on their feet and learning more about what our director wants us to do.
In March we did a workshop of Act II of "In Touch" and we had to vibrate constantly when we were ‘online.’ It’ll be interesting to see what Ken Alexander (Director) wants the avatars to do this time, and more importantly, whether or not we will get a live horse on stage for the fringe. I obviously hope that we do.
Welcome to RSAMD at The Fringe Blog
Welcome to RSAMD at The Fringe 2010
by One Academy Productions
We'd like to say hi to all you followers of our new blog site which will keep you up to date with all things RSAMD at the Edinburgh Fringe 2010.
Following on from the 5*sell-out success of Jerry Springer - The Opera, our MA Musical Theatre students will be back in August with the Scottish Premiere of the multiple Tony award winning and Olivier nominated Spring Awakening.
We will also be premiering two brand new works in collaboration with Perfect Pitch. Closest to the Moon by Richard Taylor and In Touch by Dougal Irvine.
Our cast and production teams will be posting with news on everything from rehearsals to performances, so check back and keep in touch with us.
Tickets for all our shows can be purchased at http://www.pleasance.co.uk/edinburgh
See you in Edinburgh
by One Academy Productions
We'd like to say hi to all you followers of our new blog site which will keep you up to date with all things RSAMD at the Edinburgh Fringe 2010.
Following on from the 5*sell-out success of Jerry Springer - The Opera, our MA Musical Theatre students will be back in August with the Scottish Premiere of the multiple Tony award winning and Olivier nominated Spring Awakening.
We will also be premiering two brand new works in collaboration with Perfect Pitch. Closest to the Moon by Richard Taylor and In Touch by Dougal Irvine.
Our cast and production teams will be posting with news on everything from rehearsals to performances, so check back and keep in touch with us.
Tickets for all our shows can be purchased at http://www.pleasance.co.uk/edinburgh
See you in Edinburgh
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