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See you over there

Rain x

Christmas Shopping Tuesday.

WOW! I thought yesterday was a crazy shopping day. Today was crazier!

I still only brought three presents for the family but I was out for hours. Driving everywhere!!

I was a little bit naughty and I picked myself up a Christmas present :P

The CD is amazing! My mom actually knows more songs that I do but the 3 CD are incredible!! I only paid £10 for it from HMV. (Link below)

http://hmv.com/hmvweb/simpleMultiSearch.do?searchUID=&pGroupID=0&adultFlag=false&simpleSearchString=essential+musical+guide&primaryID=0&btnSubmitSearch.x=0&btnSubmitSearch.y=0

Flexibility and Continuing To Work

Being in the Musical Theatre Industry you obviously need to be a triple threat. Well it would help.

Dancing

Singing

Acting  

As I won't be in Uni for the next 3 weeks I've took it upon myself to stretch every night. The last post I posted I sat in box splits for most of writing the post. If you can't do box splits, you should try and sit in any stretch you can do while watching T.V or being on your laptop as I did. 

I sat on the floor in box splits typing away. 

I've stretched every day since I've been back in my home town. 

My goal is to do this in 3 weeks...

I can get my feet to my head but I want them to touch the floor. 

When I finally can do it I will post a picture! :)

As I love Musical's I find it no problem listening to Soundtrack daily.

I like listening to soundtracks in the shower or in the bath as it's 15/20 minutes of pure relaxation.

I'm not learning any monologues at the moment but I am currently reading The Theory Of The Theatre which I downloaded for free on my Kindle for iPhone.

I suggest you brush up on your reading as it will help understand acting styles and where they come from :)

Pantomime Monday

Right so, today has been super hectic with Christmas coming up but I to get my daily dose of Musical Theatre :D

Jack and the Beanstalk Panto was shown on ITV2 today. I managed to watch it before I went Christmas shopping. I do love a good panto.

Jack and the Beanstalk 

Above - Julie Walters

Left, Denise Van Outen and Neil Morrissey

Originally Broadcast 1998 - Old Vic Theatre 

Jack - Neil Morrissey

Dame Dolly - Adrian Edmondson
Jill - Denise Van Outen
Fairy Godmother - Julie Walters
Baron Wasteland - Griff Rhys Jones
Goldilocks - Morwenna Banks
Harp - Will Bartron
Pat (Cow) - Vince Williams and John Willett
Narrator - Paul Merton
Henchman/Tim - Julian Clary
Second Henchman - Peter Serafinowicz

Written By - Simon Nye 

Robinson Crusoe

I'm very excited to be seeing Robinson Crusoe and the Caribbean Pirates in a few days and VERY excited to be seeing Kathryn Rooney again! 

From Left, Kathryn Rooney, Lesley Joseph, Brain Conley and Andrew Ryan

Tickets - 

http://www.birminghamhippodrome.com/whatson_focus.asp?showid=1737

Interview with the Cast/ Press Night: Ben Wooldridge -  http://birminghamhippodrome.wordpress.com/tag/ben-wooldridge/

www.kathrynrooney.co.uk / twitter.com/MsKathrynRooney

www.brianconley.com / twitter.com/RealBrianConley

twitter.com/LesleyJoseph
www.andrewryancomedy.com / twitter.com/Andrewryan_

Musicals You Might Have Seen Around

Just a few Musicals :)

What's happened: September - December

So since September as I said I've been very busy with Uni work. In just 11 weeks

September to December work.

Theatre in Education company's
Finding a mini group with in the group,
Presentation for Arts funding,
Production plan,
Rehearsal plan,
Research,
Branding,
Devising a piece to work on,
Marketing,
Technical Theatre.

Tap dance
Timesteps, Single and Double
Basic moves - pick ups, shuffle's, cramp rolls, heel digs ect...

BalletWarm up exercises,
Terminology,
Stretches 

Contemporary Dance
A minute and half dance for December assessment.

Hip Hop Dance
A minute and half dance for December assessment.

Musical Theatre Dance
A minute and half dance for December assessment.

Repertoire Skills
5 group songs with three harmonies,
5 given monologues and 2 own monologues.
Audition practice with song and monologue

Music and Singing Theory
Basic sight reading, 
Down beats, 
Up beats,
Notes,
Writing music

Acting
Duel logs,
Interpretive stories from music and pictures,
Devising a piece with a stimulus using pictures.  

Singing
Pre 1980's singing, Contrasting songs.

Academic Practice
Musical Theatre History (So interesting, I didn't want to stop writing) 

Physical Theatre
Learning where movement comes from within the body,
Bringing out emotions,
Element of the body

I might have missed out other things to this list but you get the rough idea of things I have been doing.

With all that to my scheduled I do 7 hours of extra rehearsals within the Uni.
I've also watched new musicals to widen my knowledge of times and styles of Theatre, I've been to the West End 4 times (Yes I was there for when Rachel Tucker left Wicked, the week before and day of) Took a West End Master class and downloaded new soundtracks of Musicals.

Musical Theatre is truly a passion of mine and I'm going to stop at nothing to reach my goal. 

Hello

Hey there!

So, I've decided to make this blog about the next 3 years of life and beyond. Let's see what happens and how things grow.

I'm a craze of Musical Theatre and I train in it at University. 

The last 15 months, Have been crazy!! I have been on a crash course in Musical Theatre. I never looked to be studying Musical Theatre. Then things suddenly changed and I started looking more into it and really enjoyed Musical Theatre and found out I had the knack for it. I've already worked with professionals off the West End from the likes of Legally Blonde, Hairspray, Wicked, Tommy, Boogie Nights - just to name a few shows. It is a small industry. 

My goal is to obviously be on the West End. 

I want to write about the good times, bad times, sad times and hard times. 

Hopefully this blog will inspire up coming Musical Theatre heads as well as show the hard work and input you really need which then leads to the moment when you feel to yourself 'That was so worth it all' 

I've been told that if I want to get into the industry I should have no social life for the next 5 years. 3 years of Uni and two years after. If that's to do with auditioning or working on my first shows to make a name for myself. I'm up for it and I'm going for my challenge. 

Being at University I have a little bit of a social life but I still make plenty of time to do my work. I know geek alert but I'm so serious about being in the world of Musical Theatre I'm willing to work my bum off now and all through my career. 

I've currently on my first major vacation from Uni - Christmas Vacation/Holiday -

Since September I have been super busy with Uni work and meshing with people on my course. 

I've never been with so many talented people in my life and I was expecting that. This has made me up my game and I know at this point in my training I'm not going to be perfect and people will be better than me but I haven't been/let anyone's talent threaten me.

I personally think you should never change as you could make a name for yourself which won't be a very nice and it won't matter how talented you are. Be a bitch in the industry and you won't get work as people won't want to work with you and believe me people talk. I know!

Well I hope you like my Musical Theatre blog and I hope you will grow with me along the road and that this blog is helpful in the future with your career 


  Rain x