Alfie's Musical Theatre Blog

This is a Showreel which shows my progress in each performance over the months we started the Musical Theatre unit in Performing Arts.  

  This is my Musical Theatre Essay.

This is our piece for Rent: Seasons of Love. I am the last one standing on downstage left. This is our Sincerely Me piece from Dear Evan Hansen. I am the one in all black and mostly on upstage left for the entire piece.   This is our Revolting Children piece from Matilda the Musical. I am wearing a white shirt and black trousers, along with black shoes.  This is our Non-Stop piece from Hamilton. I am wearing a black tailcoat and am playing Aaron Burr. I am usually wandering around the stage with the character of Hamilton. This is my solo Confrontation piece from Jekyll and Hyde. 

  This is my Final Evaluation for the entire course, workshops and rehearsal process.

 

Before I started the rehearsal, I made sure to warm up my vocals. An exercise I performed was humming in different octaves. Doing this ensures that my throat is clear and able to perform to the best of it's ability. In this rehearsal, I tried to add movement to my solo song from Jekyll and Hyde. I think that I need to improve my posture more, and try to stick in one place; that way, the audience won't have to keep tracking me as I move around the space (1:10 - 1:15), and it gives the piece a more static and thrilling feeling, which the piece is meant to entail. I think that I need to work on some of the higher notes as belting in a chest voice can be very straining, which means I need to warm up and cool down more, and make sure that I drink a lot of water and be careful of what I might eat on the performance. As my voice is lower, I have to keep practising raising my pitch. I also think I need to work on my characterisation, as it seems fairly mild in terms of exaggeration. To...