Friday 27th March- singing- Cats

Today in our singing lesson with Kim, our year 12 musical theatre class had a joint lesson with the year 13 class who are performing Cats the musical as their main project piece for their unit. We Asa class in the year below are using this as a part of our singing and dancing unit.

By watching an extract of one of the songs from the musical really helped me to grasp the atmosphere and the classes image for the performance. This was helpful as I am going to be involved in a dance number and singing number and has now given me the correct insensible as to how to perform my roles. Their level of work ethic and the amount of effort they have out in to the piece they performed to us was inspirational and really set the standard as to where we should be aiming for next year as second year musical theatre students.

In the practical side to the lesson, we collectively learnt how to split a song into part harmonies. We were split in to two groups, I was put in to the harmony group which contained mainly year 13 students, only Taylor, Ashley and I from the year 12 class. The harmony and base line sounded really professional once placed together after we had practised in our separate groups.

'The Pekes And The Pollicles' is the title of the song our class have choreographed, learnt and will be dancing to in the musical performance. This song is all about how the journalists and paparazzi of the dog world are keen to get pictures and information from the cats staring in a current fashion show. For this, we also have to sing some parts of the song whilst dancing. This will take tremendous breathe control and stamina as singing and dancing together is a skill required to make high class musical theatre performers. 

Only Sophie, Katrina and John are singing along side us in this number aptherefore we went to sing with them and Kim in a music room today to sort out who will be singing which parts and how these will be done. It had already been decided that Sophie will be singing the main bulk of the song. Her voice is amazingling professional and really compliments the song and the lyrical meaning behind it. Our class as the journalist and paparazzi dogs is to bark and sing some of the verse and bridge lines. We are doing this due to the fact we need to vocally represent to the audience that we are in fact playing the character of dogs and how this related to the cat walk show. We have to sing the barking parts with aggression and passion behind them as the dog characters are fighting against one another for the best picture and information from the cats. 

I feel today was a very beneficial lesson as it showed me where I am going with the idea of the cats performance and how to play my character. By watching the performance from the year 13s, this also guided me through how I need to perform my character as they were certain if the way they were to perform their's.