Evaluation on Performances

DAY ONE

Strengths

Right when, “Mama who Bore Me,” ended I stood up at the exact time the lights changed, I was so proud!

Being I messed up my lines during our dress run I pulled it out the bag in our actual performance! Especially the line I struggle with the most, “Our world has been littered with sufficient critical commentary on textual conjectures.” Try saying that five times fast.

When I was told I had to hand out microphones to the boys, while Danial sang I was like pardon! I had to remember which numbers to give them now as well! It actually turned out not to be that hard, it was really straight forward.

“Bitch of Living,” rocked big time!

I kept in time with the music when dancing to, “Touch me.” When looking back on it we all looked really cool! Mine and Izzy’s partner work looked very sweet as if we were really truly in love.

As our first performance its the best so far, we pulled it off better then we could have hoped!

Everyone appeared in time and knew where they needed to be at certain points.

When singing, “Guilty Ones,” I believe we sang it beautifully but we can do better!

Though we had changed the dance to, “Totally F@cked,” we mostly would look at Dan when he sang before spinning on our heels and aiming our at voices right at the audience which was really fun I just wish we could have done more with it.

I am Her Gabor, Dan’s father and I like how I portrayed the man, formal but also a man who does love his wife truly and deeply to the extent he allows her to let their son be free to express himself…which in the end leads to his down fall as well as the family’s.

The scene happens in between Kirsten singing, “Whispering,” so when I didn’t speak I’d try to be stern while fighting with my wife but I would also show weakness by looking over my shoulder and pulling facial expressions in a way that made the audience know he wanted to go to his wife, yet he didn’t because he was the man of the house and had to keep his composure. By far my strongest role throughout the whole show.

Improvments

I should have started talking straight away when the lights changed when, “Mama who Bore Me,” finished so it flowed right into it!

I as the teacher is suppose to hit Dan (Melchior) with the cane to discipline him, I hit my hand the first time…ow but I did whack him the next time just not one that was very convincing. It still looked like I whacked him but personally it wasn’t very good.

Being I wasn’t use to the height of the staging, I tripped once of twice.

Need to be louder when singing “Touch me” and listen to it again because I missed a few words.

The band played, “I believe,” to quickly so we all went silent not knowing when to sing which was a shame being the performance as a whole went off really well.

There was a moment where no one was on stage because a few boys forgot to walk on right when Ben needed their que but it wasn’t too noticeable a part from a few faces being pulled.

For the funeral scene I use to be a parent with Sue and I found it sweet how she’d hook her arm around mine and hug it before we nodded to Simon who played Ben’s father and walked off. Turns out it makes more sense to go with Izzy M who is actually my wife in the play, I just didn’t find it as sweet.

I was a little stiff on my feet when it came down to, “Totally F@cked,” but we were loud and proud with the singing!

Purple Summer isn’t my favorite song so I was very quiet.

We did, as it was our first show make a few clumsy errors like when I tidy up the classroom when the boys sing, “Bitch of Living,” the chalk rolled away and it ended up getting stepped in and make a mess over some of the floor.

DAY TWO

STRENGTHS

I hit Dan with the cane so much better this time round, it sounded very real and his movements helped a lot to make it all the more real.

Best “Bitch of Living,” didn’t mess up anything that I can remember, it was our cleanest one of the three.

“Touch Me,” was so much more powerful and the dance just looked amazing, its because we’ve done a performance already this is why this show was our finest, best one out of all three!

“I Believe,” the band pulled it off with flying colors especially with all the songs during this performance! We were on the ball!

The candles and blue lights in,”I Believe,” looked very pretty!

“Totally F@cked,” I was more comfortable and better as moving my body to the beat of the song, once again us singing it spot on!

We use torches in, “Mirror Blue Night,” a dance we do in the beginning went well for all the performances and in the end we shine Dan who’s on the higher platform and stay still as he does his sequence.

I managed to sing Purple Summer louder and stronger!

DAY THREE

BY FAR OUR BEST, “TOTALLY F@CKED”!!!!!

Sadly this was our last performance and it wasn’t our best because sadly someone couldn’t make it into the show. It was no problem really all we had to do was make some adjustments.

Everyone did seem distracted however, so we didn’t pull it off as well as the last two nights but we didn’t let that get us down, overall it was still a good show!

I repeated on of my teacher lines by mistake but quickly covered it.

I didn’t performance Touch Me because my partner wasn’t available.

Quite a few bits felt clumsy, shortened and all round not what I like for a finishing show.

Overall a brilliant cast, fantastic group of people came together to make this show big and worth all the time and effort we put into it! It was a challenge but where’s the fun without them! I wish we had harder dances to do because that is one of my weakest skills but this helped me to know I can dance as well as sing…sort of.