In today’s lesson we were told that we had all the backing tracks for the whole musical which was a relief due to the fact that I was beginning to slightly worry that I couldn’t hear my voice over the other singers and also it meant that I could work on my timing for songs such as I’ll cover you reprise and Santa Fe. So from the beginning of the lesson we started from the very beginning of rent and continued all the way through the half way through act 2. We got through a vast amount as we have had some songs cut as they’re unnecessary to the story and could be too long for our audience. I was rather impressed as to how well that we all managed to do seeing as it was our first sing through without any of the original cast members helping.
Although we were good and all, when I was singing “I’ll cover you reprise”, I did have a bit of a struggle as I was riffing which I soon learnt that it was a big no no, especially for my character. Seeing as I’m playing Collins, most of the actors that tend to play him are black as it’s something that just is rather common with his character. This slightly means it doesn’t look as cringy when he sings some of his songs due to the fact that he’s got a deeper and more blues/jazz voice to me. So as a way to resolve this, I came to the conclusion that I should maybe hold notes intead of going all over the place with them.
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