In our variety show we performed this song as an ensemble for the opening act.For me, learning this song was very difficult because there was alot of words I myself didn’t know and the pace of the lyrics were fast and tightly put together so I felt as though it made me struggle with my pronounciation of words at times- I felt tongue tied. Although I did have a solo part, I did not sing it in the actual show. The reasoning behind this is because I didn’t feel confident and comfortable at the key it was meant to be sung so next year I think I need to work on my confidence in doing so. Another thing is that, I had been absent for one session and my part had been given away to Ruth, who is a good friend to me in my class and also a brilliant performer, so to take my solo back from her I sort of felt shy and embarrassed because In my head I kept telling myself shes better than me.
In my opinion the performance as a whole needed much more time to rehearse and prepare because the impression I get from the song is that it is supposed to be slightly comedic and sarcastic. But when we performed it we stood in two lines for most of it. Because its a big song, it should be performed big and theatrical as well as the fact that it opens the entire show. The imagery I get when I think about it is each act comes on one by one and sings along with movement and then when the song is coming to an end all of the acts will be standing on the stage.
There was a song called ‘Putting It Together’ that links with this song, but unfortunately it was cut on the day of the variety show because the class as a whole didn’t properly prepare and it wasn’t presentable. To be fair I think both these songs had be rushed to learn and out of all the songs we had learned in the past those were the hardest.
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