Brand New Day/ Everybody Rejoice is the number I have to create within the Wiz, this number is the celebration song by the workers after the witch has been killed by Dorothy. Because it is a celebration I really wanted it to be very upbeat and party like and fun. I watched a few different versions of it been done before online and then listened to the track before starting to create movement.
For the overall aesthetic to be how I planned , I wanted them to be wearing colourful and bright clothing like a party, also to contrast with the boring coloured worker outfits they had on previously.
I started off by choreographing up to the first chorus, as I wanted to try it out in class and make sure it looked right with what I was going with. It worked out that I liked what I had created so I then choreographed more of the routine. I did this because I didn't want to create material make them learn it all and then not like it or it doesn't work.
I had the Rent class as my dancers this meant that I had 11 dancers plus the four friends and off cast Dorothy so overall 16 people. Because 16 people are hard to get free all at the same time I spoke with Kat and planned to have an hour each week in the rent classes time to teach them and then teach the friends and OD in lesson. Liam and I had a small chat and decided spacing within the number so that it was tidy and worked with the choreography.
I was able to teach the rent class the whole number within the first hour which was great so the next week I let them do another number they are in but we did BND at the end of the lesson. I had decided that the two singing solos would go to Luke and Paige however towards closer the show Paige had to drop out of it so we put Izzy in.
In one section there is a grape vine between two lines however after a few rehearsals I decided that only one line would do it as it became too much for the friends to do also they had there solo singing sections coming up so I didn't want them too tired that they couldn't sing for that section also being a friend myself on one night I know that it was a hard transition so I made the decision to change it.
also nearer the performance I asked Kim to extend the opening of the song so that they had more time to take off their overalls otherwise some people were panicking that couldn't change quick enough, so I doubled the intro.
Overall when we finally did the number with all set, costume, lighting and an audience, the number went really well, the costumes worked really well as well as the lighting and everyone remembered the number however some people had pulled out the week of the show so the spacing was a bit off near the end so that could have been sorted but I think it still went well. I think the groups energy was amazing considering that it is quite a demanding number.
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