Act 2 rehearsal process

Out of the two acts act 2 is the weakest, as we haven't spent as much time on it as we have with act 1. So on the 5th December we did a run through of act 2 once and we got feedback after. Then we had a break and did it again, we ending up finishing half way through.

 - this a YouTube clip of my first return in Act 2. And this was filmed a few weeks ago.

On the 9th December we focused on act 2 first because we had spent the whole day doing act 1 the day before. Ruth (who used to be apart of the panto as a second year) was observing because she hasn't been in the panto for a few weeks now and she is giving back feedback as if she was an audience member. She mainly talked about some of the villagers and said everyone needs to work on the happy dance.

Act 2 got better as it was a lot shorter so was much quicker and easier to work through it. The main scene that I was in that needed fixing up was when I return to the emperors palace to ask him if I can marry the princess. We changed the script a bit by having the wedding when it was the finale so it was just going to be an engagement at first, by this changing we had to change the que line to leave the scene which I struggled with, as some of the cast had different ideas of what line was the que line. This scene also needed focus on the exiting as it was very messy, we changed it so that the villagers left first and mains stayed on stage but started to leave as the villagers  were just getting off stage.

(Act 2 main feedback)

- good energy in first song

- energy lacking slightly in some scenes

- Ella said I said the line as 'er could you point the way to go' and it is meant to be 'er could you point the way OUT to go' but it says what I said in the script but I will change it

- the dance to happy needs to improve

- need to improve energy / character

- Aladdin and princess went mumbly in the scene when I come to save the princess

- react more when genie comes in (be more chuffed to see him)