Potential for development (Rent Evaluation)

Potential for Devolvement

Style

For our performance, we performed the musical in a rather classical way. By classical I mean that we performed Rent in a way that we stuck the basics with it. We sung the all the songs that we had chosen to perform and also we were keeping all the dramatic parts on the stage. If I could develop the style of Rent and change anything, I would strongly look into re writing the script slightly to make it less musical and straighter drama based. I think that this would be rather interesting as I feel that the audience could feel more involved with the play and also some scenes may be more emotional for the audience. E.g.: Angel’s funeral. Even though I think that it would be better with a bit of straight drama I think that there could be some background music that could be used so that it really helps build an atmosphere.

Location

As far as the location would be concerned, I think performing in a bigger theatre where there was more space to add props, set, sound and maybe allow more people to be involved with our workshop. However the only issue with doing this is that we would then have to form a budget and make sure that we don't over spend on any equipment etc. Also with having the budget is that we would then have to hire radio mics, MAC lights and maybe have to hold an audition for a bigger cast as I think that the stage will look really empty with the current amount of our cast.

Due to the fact that we would have to consider all of the above, we would then have to maybe consider having a budget as I don’t think that we could be able to just walk into a theatre and be able to perform the show straight away.

Video/Projection

As far as videos and projection would be concerned, I would say that I would like someone to go and video certain things or people in the cast as it’s something that I fund rather inspiring when watching the performance in the Broadway version and at the start of the unit, however when we started to really get into the rehearsals I think that we all forgot about the whole idea and it git left out for the performance. I also think that it would be interesting to have projection during the performance as I think that we could use the projection too show a location or what time of day or night.

Target Audience

I would like to think that the target audience would be different to our actual audience on the night of the show. When discussing what people in our audience thought about the show, I think that some people were unclear about the story. So because of this I think that it would be a wise idea to have an audience that actually know the musical and that would understand what happened even after we have cut everything out of it.

Sound

For the sound of the show, the speaker that we had was rather loud and I feel that with a pre-recorded soundtrack It was rather plain and we could have fallen out of time rather quickly. However If we done this show again, I would like to have a live band as it would be easier and it means that they can follow us instead of s following the song which means that it is less stress related.