This was a big production so we collaborated with the musical theatre and dance students to make the production run smoothly and successfully.
We were given 6 weeks to do the production which means we had to use all of our time wisely, we had divided up our rehearsal schedule so we could rehearsed everything that we had to do.
There were many rehearsal session that we had to cover for example some days in the morning we would have singing rehearsals cause we had to learn all the songs that we were singing in Peter Pan for example songs like 'When You Believe' and 'Consider Yourself 'and then in the afternoon we would have dance and movement rehearsals this is where would would work on any cherograhpy that we were given and needed to learn for the scene foe example in the scene were thinker bells dies and everyone comes together and sing and do the dance that we created, this consisted from dance rehearsals to stage combats rehearsals where we would practice the fights scenes. for example the fights scenes between the Pirates and Lost Boys.
On other days we would have full rehearsals where we would ran through the whole play from starts to finish with the directors then gets notes on what needed to be improved or what needed to be developed, then if we had time we would go through individual scenes that needed work and the directors would help us with them.
As the weeks went on our rehearsals sessions were getting better and better as we came close to our performance, around the final week of rehearsals we normally did full run through of the plays and focused on tighten up little bits here and there.
I think that the final performance went well because everyone was focused and ready and because they knew that this was our last performance they went all out and I think that was a good thing because it made the atmosphere and mood much better for the audience and for us as actors. Also another reason why this went well is because they was no trouble with the production team that did the sets changes and lighting and sounds everything went smoothly and had a great flow.
I would say that some of our rehearsals sessions didn't go so well because of various reason and at times we didn't listen and cooperate with each other cause everyone wanted to have there say in what was happening and was speaking over each other which made it harder to get any work done. This matter could have easily been resolved if everyone had just listen to one person at a time and planned out what we needed to do then it would have made things easier and we would have gotten more work done and it would have been a more productive and efficient rehearsal sessions.
As well as group rehearsals and working with everyone I also had to developed my character and my role.
Firstly I wanted my character to be the typical strong and brave henchman but also respects his crew mates and has great loyalty to his captain. I based my character on Lurch in the movie the Adam's family because he is always the one who does the heavy lifting and the dirty work for his boss without question or any complaints.
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