I'll cover you + Today for you

In today's lesson, it was the last week that we had Dan who is playing Angel. So before he left for his surgery, we tried to get as much done that involves our two characters ( Angel and Collins). So the 3 main songs that we tried to get done was " I'll cover you ", " Today for you " and " Santa Fe ". We started on I'll cover you. I had been listening to this song a lot in the recent weeks so I already knew the words for it however one struggle that I had is that I don't feel as if my voice is as strong as the original Collins (Jesse L Martin), so I have to try and change my voice to a lower tone to allow myself to not damage my vocal chords. For the song we try to look as Couple like as possible, by achieving this we watched the film version and Broadway version. We looked at what kind of movement that they both had and how they make it look like they're a couple. When we looked they both hold hands and spin in a circle and they also do a little dance where Collins has his arm around Angels back and has his hand on his hips. And then we give some sort of jesters to each other when we say "You'll be my king and I'll be you castle". "No you'll be my queen and I'll be your mote." and then we pretend to put crowns on each other and then get closer top each other and then run around in a circle around the stage and meet each other at the front of the stage again and sing the final lines and passionately embrace.

When we were first thinking of the ideas that we could use in this, we found it rather difficult as we didn't know what we wanted to do with it, weather we wanted to use the film and Broadway as inspiration or if we wanted to make something up from scratch. So after we spoke to each other about it, we decided that we would do both. We chose that we would use some parts from the film and Broadway and then whatever we didn't have in it, we made up.

Once we sorted out what we were doing for I'll cover you, we moved straight onto 'Today for you' which is where Collins introduces Angel to his friends (Mark and Roger). At the beginning of song it has this strange circus/Caribbean type of music so myself and Ashley thought it would be funny to form a little 2 man conger line as we go on the stage and sing. And then we have our arms on each other's shoulders and sway from side to side as we sing 'oh holy night, he struck gold at MIT'. This is so that the audience can see they're really good friends and they like to mess about with each other. And then when Angel comes in Mark and Roger are amazed at what they see and are slightly frozen whilst Collins is going to be in his own little world and doing a drum beat kind of thing with a coke glass and a stick. For the drum part in the song, I thought it would be good for Dan to do a weird tap dance as he cant drum well and also he is a dance and it would look rather impressive to the audience however he is in heels and he finds it a massive struggle to dance in them.