Goodbye Love

In today's lesson we were missing the character of Angel due to him having an operation.Due to this it meant that we can't use him in anything for the next few weeks. So due to this we have started to work on Act 2 and we thought that it would be a good idea to start on 'Goodbye Love'. We listened to the track a few times just so that people who haven't heard it before. Once we had listened to it a few times and got the lines for it, we sang it through a few times. Just to try and see if we will need to adjust our voices to a higher or lower tone. Then after this, this is when we started to block things. Mark will have his lines at the beginning and then once he finishes, the song will begin. We wall walk out from the back of stage left and walk in a weird line however we're scattered out. I walk out first as the song is set to take place just after Angel's funeral and I'll need to show how Collin's is feeling but also to show that he doesn't want to be around anyone, really exaggerating how lonely he feels in that current moment. Once I sing my lines, I shall walk back to where we came on as I need to show the audience I'm going back into the church. Whilst I'm inside the church the audience will see that Mark and Rodger having an argument and personally I think that this is rather sad as Mark is realizing that he's probably going to be left on his own and all of his friends will be dead due to the aids. And Rodger is just the same as he always is in the musical which is confused as to why he loves Mimi and pushes her away. Roger then walks off stage leaving Mark, Mimi and Benny all together and they offer to help. The people playing these character are all mid stage at this point so that the audience can really focus on them. Once she has finished singing Collins returns out of the church and being verbally abused by the priest. He calls him a queer which leads to a small argument and leaving Collins with Mark and Benny.

The thing that I liked about staging this is that I can really imagine that the church at the back of the stage which will be good as I can then find it easier to walk in and out of but also it would be really good to set the scene. However, after watching how this secondry school have their staging and how where the church door would be located, I did think that it was a rather interesting way of having it an also have it can make the audience feel. ( 1:56:18 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-Zs06bS-pQ ) One thing that I think that I'll have to do in order to play this part quite well is to look into what it's like to have the person you love taken away from you. I think it's going to be quite hard as I've been fortunate enough to not experience it however in a way I don't think I'll be able to make it as realistic as it could be however I'll have to give it my best. Another thing that I think that we we could potentially have in this scene is maybe having everyone in one section of the stage and if they're not being spoken to or such they should just freeze so then they can still be on the stage but also it can be an interesting technique we can use in the piece.