Mea Culpa
Alas, I have been holding out on my blog readers. Although I'm crazy busy with school now, I have ALSO been choreographing a high school musical for the past few months. The run just ended last night.
So, I have NOT been keeping you all up to date on some of the antics. So, a brief rundown on things I MIGHT have told you about, had I not been slacking:
- the kid with not one, not two, but apparently FOUR left feet. Almost makes my bad dancer from last year look like he's had training from Fred Astaire. I have to try not to look directly at him when they're doing the choreography, because he's often doing some sort of step which looks like an unfortunate toaster/bathtub incident.
- opening scene, I have two characters who I want tossing a basketball back and forth THREE times in time to the music. They prove why they are in the musical and not in the gym. SEVERAL times. I'm not asking for a three-point shot at the buzzer, I'm asking for toss, catch, toss, catch, toss catch. Unfortunately, it often turned into toss, just barely catch, toss back quickly to get on time with the music, drop, run after ball or kick it off stage with embarrassed look on face. *sigh*
-Speaking of unathletic guys, why is it that ALL the guys in this show are skinny weaklings? And the girls are either much taller, or much heavier? I came prepared with some neat lifts we could do. Only to find out pretty darn quickly that unless steroids were involved, that was not going to happen.
Though, a couple of the girls managed to successfully lift the guys.
-During the performance, there were often a fair amount of smirks or outright giggles when the lead male started to sing. He wasn't bad, but when he got off, he was WAY off and it was WAY painful. One night, one of my friends I had brought leaned over to me and said "No matter how much you hum the right note, he's not going to get it." Oops. :)
- It must be awkward when you have to have your first kiss EVER on stage, and pretend to know what the heck you're doing. The resulting hoover effect, with random tongue punctuations, with sucking sounds amplified by your mic, were NOT pretty. I've chuckled at a lot of high school musicals, sometimes outright laughed. Never dry heaved before.
Stay tuned fair readers. In the new year, I will be starting my school show, AND choreographing another one, with adults only. Lots of fodder.
So, I have NOT been keeping you all up to date on some of the antics. So, a brief rundown on things I MIGHT have told you about, had I not been slacking:
- the kid with not one, not two, but apparently FOUR left feet. Almost makes my bad dancer from last year look like he's had training from Fred Astaire. I have to try not to look directly at him when they're doing the choreography, because he's often doing some sort of step which looks like an unfortunate toaster/bathtub incident.
- opening scene, I have two characters who I want tossing a basketball back and forth THREE times in time to the music. They prove why they are in the musical and not in the gym. SEVERAL times. I'm not asking for a three-point shot at the buzzer, I'm asking for toss, catch, toss, catch, toss catch. Unfortunately, it often turned into toss, just barely catch, toss back quickly to get on time with the music, drop, run after ball or kick it off stage with embarrassed look on face. *sigh*
-Speaking of unathletic guys, why is it that ALL the guys in this show are skinny weaklings? And the girls are either much taller, or much heavier? I came prepared with some neat lifts we could do. Only to find out pretty darn quickly that unless steroids were involved, that was not going to happen.
Though, a couple of the girls managed to successfully lift the guys.
-During the performance, there were often a fair amount of smirks or outright giggles when the lead male started to sing. He wasn't bad, but when he got off, he was WAY off and it was WAY painful. One night, one of my friends I had brought leaned over to me and said "No matter how much you hum the right note, he's not going to get it." Oops. :)
- It must be awkward when you have to have your first kiss EVER on stage, and pretend to know what the heck you're doing. The resulting hoover effect, with random tongue punctuations, with sucking sounds amplified by your mic, were NOT pretty. I've chuckled at a lot of high school musicals, sometimes outright laughed. Never dry heaved before.
Stay tuned fair readers. In the new year, I will be starting my school show, AND choreographing another one, with adults only. Lots of fodder.
posted by Daisie @ 10:04 AM
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