Evaluation of musical theatre

I know him so well - Chess

For my musical theatre assignment I was given an audition duet with Kelly Rolfe. Our task was to sing 'I know him so well' from the musical chess. I had never heard this song before, so before we could do anything we listened to the song so we knew what we were singing. I really liked this song, and thought we could be clever with it.  We first listened to it with the actual singers singing a long to give us  a better idea, and sang it through with them in our heads. The song didn't need much choreography so we just added different directions for different verses to give it a sense of a chess game. When singing the song we had to add emotion to our faces. We were set different verses to sing solo, and then parts which we had to sing together. I was a bit shakey when singing the solo parts as I am not a confident singer, and I think after all that rehearsals it has taught me to be more confident, so next time I am going to be a lot more confident with my singing. I liked singing with Kelly as I feel we made a very good pair and as she is a strong singer it gave me a lot more confidence with my singing. I am also happy we were given this song, as I thought it suited our voices well. When it was the other persons turn to sing I just stood still using my facial expressions as I didn't want to take the concentration away from kelly. To improve I will be more confident with my singing and sing louder! And I know that I will use a lot more confidence when singing in our end of year show.

Richard Fishers funeral - monologue 

For my drama piece I was given this Richard Fishers funeral as my monologue. We were all given a sheet with our monologue and we were told to annotate it and learn the lines. This was set as a homework so we spent no class time on it. The say we filmed it we performed it in the drama studio, and to give a professional feel we used lighting. My piece was about a girl making a speech at her dads funeral, however the girls dad used to abuse her, and the girl is telling everyone the memories she shared with her dad. None of which were nice, just how he used to abuse them and scared she was of him. I have never been in this situation so I wasn't sure how to quite act it. To relate to it I imagined myself as the character and as if it was actually my dad, this made it easier to act and helped me portray my emotion in my performance, and acting. The things I found difficult in the task was memorizing the words, but everyone had this difficulty. To improve my piece I would have made it more subtle and more emotion in my face and body language rather then the pitch of my voice.

Evidence of these are on the KLS performing arts blog.