Fifth Session in South Melbourne

27.08.08

A short blog entry...

This week, we once again commenced our session by reciting the three songs from our musical repertoire.
Things went off to a shaky start when Nini, Ashlee and I caught a case of the giggles which was sparked by our purposely overly-high-pitched singing during the 'Babylon' song. I remembered the comments Myf had made a few weeks prior regarding 'giggling' and how it could be misinterpreted as mocking, and I assume that Myf wanted to reiterate her feelings about this behaviour because she separated us. Lesson learned.

For the rest of our session, we basically just rehearsed the choreography for 'Brian's Song'. I am not a confident (or very competent)dancer, so I'm still uneasy about dancing in front of others. As a result, I am convinced that my self-consciousness in this area could be causing me to forget the moves to this rather straight-forward routine. Some City Voices members joined us students for the choreography: Tracy, Annette (filling in for Kate), Diann and Debra all stepped into the number seamlessly, but Spiros and Valentina struggled slightly.

Emily Lee approached a couple of us students to act as some form of 'media contact' for the publicity of the play. She also spoke of performing some publicity stunts in order to promote our show: wedding dress parades, staged collapsing on in Flinders St., Piaf drag shows and the like. Most people were very enthused about the wedding dress idea and most people offered other suggestions, some even going as far as recommending that we get Hamish & Andy involved, but I truly doubt that the latter will ever come into fruition for one of two reasons: the first is that no one will actually make an effort to contact them, and the second is that even if one of us did go that extra mile I'm confident that Hamish & Andy wouldn't dabble in promoting something from a compatibly niche market. Call me a cynic if you want!

Several City Voices members recited some of their musical material for us, and then Myf concluded our session by reading out her rough idea about the running order of the show.