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During my song of Home I put the microphone to close to my mouth twice which made a loud noise, but didn't distract me.
In This is Me we was missing 2 people and so we had to make a small change because in Grease and This is me we move into a V shape and so we decided in both just the people near set each side moves to that side of the V shape.

With my belt for Lydia's costume 2 of the pop it buttons fell off and so I buttoned up the 2 that stayed on and used one of my black hair clips, to clip it in place.
One problem I notice was that my singing needs work however, this was a problem I have dealt with since I started rehearsing but I notice that in my performance apart from the low notes my voice sounded perfect.
During This is Me, I notice that I was too early on the first time when points our fingers. During the rest of the dance I remember the dance perfectly.

I was very happy with my Home song. The projection and lighting worked perfectly and I used the projection  by looking at it to convince myself that I was in the Neverworld, which made my character come to life.
With the song being looped in the middle, I had 5 seconds cut out, but I could still hear the music before the build up, which is when I started to sing again. I decided to improvise a line which was 'Yes Mum he finally listen!'. I decided to say this because Charles had stared to talk about Emily (Lydia mum) and I wanted the character feelings to build up and be excited to go home and start a new fresh life.
During the acting scene when Lydia hugs Charles I went full out and bear hugged him, where as in rehearsals I gave him a side hug but I did this because I wanted to go full out not just in my song but in all 3 dances.
For the ending postiton I threw one arm in the air and the other to the side which is what Lydia does at the end of the song Dead Mum. I did this because I felt that this fitted in well.
In all 3 dances I think everything went well, as I remembered all the dances and I dressed for all my characters and stayed in character all the time.
In Grease when I came on stage as Jan I changed my first solo part because I rehearsed doing a forward kick. However I change it to a hair flick because I felt that the kick didn't work but the hair flick did.

If I was to do this again I would ask for more time so I could make a acting scene before the song. This would to be to explain what had happen so the audience understand what Lydia is singing about and why she and Charles had  an argument and then a heart to heart moment.  I would also change the lighting to just blue throughout the whole because it looked exactly how I wanted it which cold and lonely.

If I get to change this perform I would choregraph a dance routine to 'That beautiful sound' from Beetlejuice. I would do this because it is would be a fun dance choregraph and for everyone to get involved with. This would also improve my dancing skills.

Overall I am very impressed with the whole performance as I stayed in characters for all 4 times I was on stage.

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Derschowitz. J (2019)

How the Beetlejuice musical conjured Burton and beyond to haunt Broadway .Available [online] https://ew.com/theater/2019/04/04/broadway-beetlejuice-alex-timbers/ Accessed [28/5/2021]

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Quinn. S (1999) Suicidal writer was free to kill herself. Available [online] https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/sep/23/2 Accessed [28/5/2021]

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Evans. D (2015) Sarah Kane: Why the iconic playwright who committed suicide is as controversial as ever. Available [online] https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/sarah-kane-why-iconic-playwright-who-committed-suicide-controversial-ever-10003985.html Accessed [28/5/2021]

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The genre of my performance is musical theatre.
Musical theatre is a combination of singing acting and dancing in a show aimed for all ages. A musical theatre show is made up with stage sets, costume, a variety use of different colored lights, a variety of different songs and sound effects.

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Alex Timber is my practitioner as I have based mu knowledge and inspiration for my performance from the Broadway performance

Derschowitz (2019) tells us what Timber plans was the Broadway musical 'really studied the [work] of Burton and that extended beyond the movie.' (Pg1)
He expressed that everything Burton did in the movie was possible to bring to the stage, but he wanted to make it bigger and better and make it a surprise to the audience.

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For my lighting I am going to have the projection of the Neverworld on throughout the whole performance.
Whilst I am singing I want a white and blue lighting on the whole stage. This is done is make the Neverworld look lonely and cold.
When Charles (Morgan) comes on stage, the lighting will go light blue. This is being done because Lydia and Charles are having a heart to heart converstaion about Emily (Lydia dead mum). I want it too still look like the Neverworld, but with a daugther and dad heart warming scene, and I don't want the blue to be too dark or we won't be seen on stage.
When Charles leaves the lighting will go back to a white and blue lighting, so that Lydia (me) can finish the song but still in the Neverwold.

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This will be my song for Home. I went to the music department and asked them for help. They was able to loop the music for 1minute 45 seconds. This gives me and Morgan enough time do perform the acting scene fullout. I will be using this for rehearsals and my performance

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This week I carried on rehearsing my song. I brought in the scarf for Morgan to wear when he is Charles.  However, when he tried it on he said that it was too small to wear. I was not aware of the sizing guide so I instead told him I'll will get him a black bow tie to wear so he stills looks as a upper class father.
In the afternoon when we went over  the show again, I remember all the dances well and have stared to improve each characters for the performance. We was allowed to use only the hand held microphones because due to the COVID guidelines we will only be allowed to use the handheld. I found that this wouldn't be too hard for me to adjust too in my performance. When I rehearsed my song I found that I was not very loud  enough and the microphone wasn't loud enough either, but I felt that my performance is improving a lot as I understand my character. I asked Morgan to learn the script over half term because where we come back I want to do a rehearsal in my costume before we do teach and dress. I would like to do this so that I am prepared for the performance and so that I can time my costumes changes. One of my fastest costumes changes will be after my performance of Home and I will only have 5 minutes to get changed out of my Lydia costume and into my This is Me costume, which also includes changing my hairstyle into a high bun and adjusting my makeup, which will be changing my lipstick from purple and back to red.
One issue I faced was with my music that was too long. I had this filmed and the time length is 12 seconds long after Morgan leaves the stage. I am going to get music cut and remove 5-7 seconds, which still leaves me and Morgan enough time. If when I am performing on the day this is too long I will improvise by jumping around stage and being excited and maybe improvising an extra line. I will rehearse this acting scene with Morgan and time it so I know how long it needs to be and make sure that there is enough timing incase the acting is longer.
I am happy with Morgan as he is becoming Charles and understands the character. However he is still using the script and so I've asked him to learn it over half term. Also in our next rehearsal I am going to try and use my projection because one of Morgan line is related to the projection and the stage setting which 'you're right, god knows your mother knew this would happened but not this I don't think anyone could have precited this'. This line is meant to be funny and so when I get the projection up I think Morgan will understand and deliver the line in the funny way.

For my next Rehearsal I want to Improve on my projection using the microphone, so when I am being filmed on the day of the performance I will be heard loudly and clearly.
Also for my next rehearsal I am going to bring all my costume for the whole show, so I can get use to performing in my costumes, and time my costume changes.
To help me with this I will time myself at home changing out of one costume and into the next.

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I will wear red lipstick and have orange eyeshadow with eyeliner to make me look like a fire dancer. I will wear my hair in a high bun.

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I will wear red lipstick and have light orange eyeshadow with eyeliner. I will have my hair half up half down in a bun to make me look like a school student with an attitude.

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I will wear my hair in 2 ponytail to make me look silly and cute. I will wear red lipstick and have light orange eyeshadow with eyeliner.

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My Character for This is me is a fire dancer and I have asked Nena from University if she would be able to try and find this costume. I wore this costume 2 years for business awards with the college and I was a fire dancer and performed in the dance This is me. I want to be this character again because I enjoyed it so much that I wanted to be this character again. Also finding ideas to be a circus freak was hard so I decided to go with my old idea and be a fire dancer again

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Me and Morgan rehearsing the acting scene for Home

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Me and Morgan rehearsing the acting scene for Home

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After my singing lesson with Helen I decied to stick with the song Home, because after my singing lesson and using the skills Helen taught me, the song started to sound much better.
In today's lesson all the singers got on stage and did a vocal warm up for 10 minutes.
After our warm up me and Morgan read the script but this time we really worked hard and started to sound and act like our characters. I then went over the stage directions with him because when he runs on stage I want him to run towards me and do something like grab my wrist or something to get my atiend to try and go with him, but will make me pull away from him. I then told him to stand in center stage as we won't be using the whole stage and I will run to him on the stage dircetion when Lydia and Charles hug.
We then acted this out on stage which looked amazing.

We then went over all 3 dances which I remember perfeclty. We did work on spacing when we changed spaces in Grease and This is Me as people was getting confused.

In the afternoon we ran the whole performance from start to finish. This was recorded incase we couldn't do the actual performance Ang had something to mark us on.
I found that I was really good in all of the dances. However, I got nervuse to do my performance as I was going full out. When I performed my song I asked Alex who was doing everyone's music if she could turn my music down when me and Morgan did the acting. When I performed I didn't look at anyone as I got into character and made myself feel that I was stuck and didn't know where to go. I put a lot of emotions and feeling into my song by changing the tone of my voice so that I sounded sad, angery, and confused.  In the acting scene me and Morgan went full out and I felt very proud of my acting as I thought it was very conviceing. Me and Morgan worked really well on this as he was showing Charles and  I saw what I wanted to see and we felt that connection of a father and daugther. A problem I faced was with the music, as I have had it looped to be long enough to do that acting part however, it went on for too long which made me feel nervuse as I was waiting for the build up in the song to start so I could finish the song.
I also used the stage to my advantage when I sung the lines
'no idea which way to go, which ever path I chose I lose ya know'
'I don't know which way home'
'is there a way back home'
'show me the way back home'
'where to next?'
'are you really in this place?'
I used the stage to walk around in different directions to try and look for a path, as Lydia is stuck she doesn't know to go home or carry on looking for her mum in the netherworld.
I also looked up above everyone as I wanted to sing to her mum, and this also helped me not to stay focused.

On the last note I used my diaphragm to hold my last note but it was very shakey and I was trying to control that note so it didn't sound pitchy. In my next singing lesson with Helen I will bring this up with her and ask for some help on this and my breath control as I think that could be causing my last note to be hard.

After my performance Ang told me that my song was perfect as I was acting through song and she said that she believed my character and how she was feeling which made me feel so proud of myself.
I have been able to build up my character for Lydia by keeping a dairy from the day of her mum funeral. I have also studied Lydia by watching her in the Broadway musical from the start and to the end, as her feelings throughout the show build up to this song.
For next week I want to improve on my projection.

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I will be wearing a black shirt and black leggings and black character shoes

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Prologue: Invisible (Ensemble Part Only - Karaoke) - Beetlejuice

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This week I decided to think about changing my song from Home to Invisible which is still sung by Lydia but is sung at the start of the show. I am also keeping in the acting scene for Home as I feel this makes the scene heart warming.
I have done this because I have a few weeks left before the performance and I am struggling to sing the high notes in Home. With Invisible it is sung in a higher note however, I can sing this without struggling to hit my notes.
To help me with this I have asked Helen Wilson who is singing coach if she will help me with both songs. I will then pick which song sounds better and go with that song. I will also keep training with Helen so she can help me to improve my vocals for the performance, as I am not a trained singer but I want the chosen song to sound perfect. I may also carry on with Helen  after the performance so I can train and improve my singing. I also think that doing this will help me to build my confidence to sing in front of a large audience.

In this lesson me and Morgan read through the script. He sounded amazing when reading his line however, I asked him to look into Charles character. I told him when we perform I want this scene to be heart warming with a father and daughter talking about their feelings.
I went back stage to start practing my songs Home and Invisible. My confidence started to build up at this point as everyone could hear me, and said I was really good. I asked Stacey and Rachel to give me feedback on both songs. When I sung Invisible Stacey said I sounded like a Lydia as I added the emotions into my song. Rachel said  my vocals was perfect for this. However they asked me if I this was long enough as I was adding the acting scene with Lydia and Charles in from Home.
When I sung Home I was struggling on the last note. Rachel said that apart from that note I sounded perfect and suggested I should stick with Home. However, Stacey said she like Invisible better as she thought I was pushing myself too much in Home.
I am confused with which song to chose so I will decied which song I choose after I had my singing lesson.
I felt more confidence as I was able to sing in front of the whole, and they were very supported. Rachel had suggested for me to use vocal warm up exercises on Spotify. She also told me when I'm singing my last note on Home to open my mouth wider.
I do need to improve on my projection, but because  was not accepting to sing in front of everyone today I sung with Volume.
At the end of lesson Everyone wanted to go through all the dances. I feel that I am good in all dances but Grease. I need to remember the arms and the steps on the chorus. My aim for next week is to have the arm and steps learnt and remembered for grease.

I did plan to start blocking out my acting scene for Home with Morgan today however, this didn't happen because he needed to work on his song. I told I would like to block out the scene next Monday morning. Next Monday afternoon Ang wants to run through the performance and see what we all have and I would like to have my acting scene blocked out and have chosen my song to sing.

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I will wear purple lipstick with white eyeshadow and eyeliner. I will wear this to make me look tired, sad, alone and mourning Lydia mum death. I will wear my hair down and wear a black hair clip on the side of my face.

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My costume for Jamie will be a simple school uniform. I will wear a white button blouse with a school tie and black leggings. I am wearing leggings so it will be easier for me to dance in. I will also wear black flat shoes because school girls wear these shoes and it will also be easier for me to dance in. In this does not work then I will wear either black jazz shoes or black trainers.

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Opening
Everyone talking about Jamie (group dance)
Shane
Hollie
Rachel
Brad
Grease (group dance)
Morgan
Alex
Kimberley and Morgan
Beth
Stace
Jess and Brad
This is me (group dance)
End

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Name: Jan
Age: 16
Gender: female
Eye color: hazel brown
Hair color: brown
Hai length: shoulder length but always wears her hair in 2 high pony tails
Likes: Twinkeys is her favorites foods. She loves to try new foods. She also likes Pudsy from the T birds gang.
Dislikes: Bullies, and hates when her mum thinks she need to be on a diet.
History: Before Jan joined the Pink Ladies, she would sit alone. She would bring in gourmet meals for her pack lunch. Rizzo and Marty saw these foods and asked if she could get some for them and Jan sold them their lunches. She was sooner recruited by the Pink Ladies. She met Frenchy a couple of weeks after joining the gang and got Frenchy recruited. She shares with the gang her recipes and her dream is to become a head cheif

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This week we started to learn the choreography to Grease is the word by Hollie. At first I found it a little tricky to learn but I soon learnt it well. However, I still need to practice at home so it looks perfect. I chose to be Jan as in the opening I have a solo for 2 counts of 8, and I danced very much like Jan.

Me and Shane went into the black box to read through the script. In this rehearsal I told Shane that he needs to act like a father as Charles is finally talking about his feelings for his dead wife. This scene is Lydia and Charles finally talking about how they feel about each other. I told Shane that he needs to slow his lines so he can show emitons and feeling when saying his lines. I showed him a video of the Broadway song and told him to learn Charles and understand how Charles show perform in this song.
Next week I want to start reading the script with Morgan as I've asked him to be Charles. I would also like to start blocking out the scene.

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As I am not a trained singer I am using a vocal tube to help me train my voice. With the vocal tube you place the straw 2cm into a bottle of water and keep your lips tight over the top. The tube and exercise are design in water resistance. Vocal Tubes (2019) tell us that  '(Water resistant voice training) is an amazing tried and tested method that helps the professional voice user to build a strong and resilient voice and achieve excellent vocal health, stamina and competence when used as part of a consistent vocal regimen.' (pg1)
I am using the beginners videos to help improve my voice. For 6 days a week I will complete a warm up exercise, one exercise and a cool down. This will help me as I will be constantly training my to reach higher and low notes that I need to hit in my song. It will also help me because by giving myself a rest day   I won't be over exercising my voice and won't hurt my voice. I will also carry this method on after the performance as it will gradually help me to improve singer.,

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5 tone major scale beginner pace, using a Vocal Tube created by Joshua Alamu.

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Vocal tubes (2019) Who needs Vocal Tubes?. Available [online] https://www.vocaltubes.com/index.html Accessed [30/4/2021]

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Home with lyrics - Beetlejuice the musical

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For the final part of my belt my grandma friend suggested that i use push buttons for my belt and so she put black on to match my belt. We placed them so the belt would me perfectly and wasn't too tight or wouldn't fall down.
In the end I am very proud of what I have achieved and more happy that I was able to make this with only a little bit of help.

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I wanted to learn how to make a flower and looked at some videos on how to make them. I took my small tin of lip balm and traced it onto my black felt. I then cut that into a circle and then made a 2cm cut into the middle and pulled the circle around which made a little rose. To stop it undoing I put a safety pin in the middle and stitched the on the outside and then on the inside.
I then place my lace and rose in the center of my belt and had made a flower to go in the middle. before I sewed it on to the belt I took out some buttons and wanted to see which one was perfect as I wanted the flower to stand out on stage and picked the black and silver. I thought that it wasn't too much and would make my belt stand out on stage. I sewed my button into the rose and then first sewed the lace onto the belt and then the rose.

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For the 3rd part of my belt I wanted to make a center piece but didn't know what to make. On Lydia costume in Broadway she has a bow but I wanted to do something different.

I did not have have a plan and so just played around with some ideas. I took some on my black lace ribbon and started to tack it. Tacking is when you sew the material onto the needle in bunches and when you pull the thread throw it makes the material tight. After doing this for a while pulled it together and it looked like a little hair scrunchie. I then sewed the ends together so it looked like a hair scrunchie.

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This week we started to work on our chosen performance. This week I asked Morgan if he would be in my performance and he said yes. In this performance the song will be the same but Charles (Lydia dad) will run on stage and he finally listen to what Lydia has to say about her mum and Charles talks about  his feelings about Emily (Lydia mum).
I spent the lesson writing up this part of the song and sent it Morgan and Shane to learn. I then tired to find a soundtrack or karaoke version on the longer song with the talking but I couldn't one so I took the song with lyrics hoping to try and take out the vocals. When I tired this, it didn't work and made my music sound terrible. I decide to go to music and see if they could help me.
In music Andy said that taking the vocals off with be impossible, so me and Phil worked together and looped the music where I needed.
I found that this would work better because I really wanted to add in the acting, as I feel this would make the performance look better and would make sense compared to doing this as a solo.
Phil was able to loop this part of song 2 and half minutes, which I feel is enough time as the acting part is very emotial however, if this is too long Phil said he can cut the music. I will work with Morgan on this and see how much music we need and if the music fits.
I have chosen to asked for a Charles, because I feel it would make sense having the acting involve. If Morgan or Shane doesn't learn this in time, then I will still be able to perform this song but as a solo which doesn't involve acting.

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I started off by taking some black elastic and black ribbon and measured them around my waist which was 109cm and 43 inch including room to fit some push buttons on. One of my grandma friend helped by offering to use her sewing machine to stich the ribbon and elastic. I added the ribbon so it would give my costume a shine when I'm on stage.

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Soundtrack for Home that I am using and will

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Soundtrack for Home that I am using and will

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loop the music so that I can do the acting scene.

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"Home" from Beetlejuice - Karaoke Track with Lyrics on Screen

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I am using this soundtrack to help me learn the song.

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Ravenhill. M (1999) Obituary: Sarah Kane. Available [online]
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-sarah-kane-1072624.html Accessed [8/4/2021]

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Talk about someone who makes their costumes

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When performing I want to be able to move in these boots with the heel, so to insure that I can move around the stage without falling I will bring these along to my rehearsal. If I can’t move around well in these boots then I will wear ankle boots which I can move around well in with falling over.

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NHS. (2019) Overview-schizophrenia. Available [online] https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/schizophrenia/overview/ Accessed [5/4/2021]

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Beetlejuice is  Tim Burton film released in August 1988. The film is about a married Couple Adam and Barbara who dies together in their own house and cannot leave. They meet Beetlejuice is a demand who has been dead for years. He agrees to help Adam and Barbara get their house back when the Deetz move in, on the condition that they get a living human to say Beetlejuice name three times which will make everyone see him.
Adam and Barbara try to scare the Deetz by putting bed sheets over them but Lydia Deetz sees them. Lydia is an only child to Charles Deetz who lost him wife Emily Deetz months ago. Lydia isn't scared of the couple but wants there help to try and find her mum. When she meets Beetlejuice he tricks her by getting her to say his name three times and he will bring her mum to her, but Adam and Barbara saves her. Lydia then writes a suicided note but fails to die and instead gets Adam and Barbara to haunt the house during her dad important business dinner party.

To help me with character development with Lydia, I have decided to write a diary from the day of her mother funeral. I will be explaining Lydia's life in this dairy, just like we see in the musical. We see her at the start at her mum funeral, then we see her unexpectedly being moved into Adam and Barbara house. Then she sings dead mum, then meets Adam and Barbara and tires to convince her dad to move back home by getting Adam and Barbara to scare them, but she sees Delia in Charles bed. She then writes a suicide note and meets Beetlejuice in Say my name. She gets Adam and Barbara to haunt the house and ruin her dads dinner party, but his boss isn't scared and wants to turn their house into a public haunted house. Lydia shouts Beetlejuice name 3 times and the two of them run the house. Lydia gets everything's she wants with the help of Beetlejuice, which is sung in Beautiful sound. She then gets given the handbook and she gets Adam to open it hoping she can find her mum. Beetlejuice then hurt Adam and Barbara by 'death for the dead'. Beetlejuice stops this if Lydia agrees to marry him and she does. In attempt to try and send Adam and Barbara to the neitherworld Lydia goes in their place wanting to find her mum with Charles running after her. She is greeted by Miss Argentina who tries to gets Lydia to go home. In the song What I know all the dead people sing how they want to live again but can't. When Juno sees them and finds out Lydia and her dad aren't dead, she sends the dead after them. Lydia then reliases she might not ever find her mum in the neitherworld but wants to keep looking. She is stuck about what to do in her solo song Home. In this song which is my chosen song, Lydia is stuck weather or not to stay in the neitherworld in hope that she might find her mum or go back home. She goes back home after Charles finally agrees to listen to Lydia and talk about her mum to her.
Back home Lydia take Beetlejuice by surprise and marries him in the song Creepy old Guy. After he is alive for a few seconds Lydia kills him and he saves Lydia from Juno (his mum) who comes back just to get Lydia but is killed by Beetlejuice.
Within this I aim to learn more about Lydia and not just what we see on stage.  I am writing this dairy in a note book design on the Handbook for the Recently Deceased. I am using this, as it fits in well with my performance and I can use it as a prop if I deiced to.

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Name: Lydia Deetz
Age: 13
Gender: female
Eye color: green
Hair color: black
Hair length: ear length
Like: being alone. Mum
Dislike: DAD, DELIA, WHOLE WORLD!
History: Lydia is an only child to Charles and Emily Deetz. Her mum died when she was 13, from a heart condition. Since Her mum death Lydia has not been the same cheerful little girl she was as she cannot talk about her mum to her dad.

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Name: Trixie
Age: 24
Gender: female
Eye color:  green
Hair color: ginger
Hair length: shoulder length but wears in a high bun.
Like: being around fire
Dislike: people
History: Trixie was an only child and grew up with no parents. She grew up learning to defend herself. She met a fire dancer when she was 9 who took her in and brought her up as their own child. She learnt how to be a fire dancer with them.
When PT barnman was asking for acts she audition and was no longer scared by people.

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Student at school
Name: Hayley Brut
Age: 15
Gender: female
Eye color: green
Hair color: brown
Hair length: below shoulders
like: dinking and going to parties.
Dislike: School
History: Hayley is an only child and doesn't like school. She does anything to get into trouble to out lesson.
At home she is a trouble maker who doesn't get on with her parents or neighbors. She has a group of friends and always goes out with them drinking, partying and getting into trouble.

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Name: Edward Lyons
Age: 30
Gender: male
Eye color: brown
Hair color: brown
Hair length: ear length
Like: working hard and making sure Mikey and Lyndia has everything to stay well.
Dislike: Bullies and cabbages.
History: Edward first meet Mickey when he went playing in a different part of town. He has never met anyone like Mickey and when he found out they had the same birthdays he was excited to be Mickeys blood brother. His mother stopped the boys from meeting which made Edward upset and he started to learn slang and swear words. Edward was heart broken when he had to move houses and he went to Mickeys mother to say goodbye and she gave him a locket with a picture of her and Micky in which looks like Edward.
Edward started to settle in well in his new house and in his new broading school but never took off his locket and so he got bullied, and was excluded for a week when he refused top hand it over to the school. His mother was more upset to see the picture inside the locket.
Mickey and Edward met again when they was 15 and got fish and chips and had a catch up-. Edward was even  happy when he found out that Mickey moved near him and so they started to spend more time together. Edward wanted to spend more time with Lyndia and started to look after her when Mickey when the jail and got put on pills.
Edward got a job 12 years later as a lawyers. When he found out that Lyndia was pregnant and
Mickey was getting worse he things was getting worse he decided to look after Lyndia and her while. They soon they stared dating hit decide to keeping it secret from Mickey incases he went mad.
Edward mother told Mikey all about  Lyndia and Edward and so he grabbed a gun and went to find Edward to kill him. Edwards said everything was lies and when Mickey's mother turned up she told them both that they were twin and Mikey killed Edwards but by accident because of him much shock he was just in.

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In the musical Lydia wears spider web tights. I have decided to go with fishnet tights as it still has the holes in and work well with the whole costume. Plain black tights don’t work and will just make the whole costume black.

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I will be adding some safety pins on the collar of the dress having big ones on the back and medium in the middle and small at the front. I am doing this because Lydia wears safety pins on her dress and I think that is a sign of her telling us that’s she scared so she wear safety pins as a weapon on her dress.
I feel that this dress suits Lydia as it looks like a gothic dress. It is also moveable for me to move around the stage. If the top of the dress is to revealing then I will wear a black vest top to cover my chest, but I will leave the sleeve alone as I like how they are see through and I love the big sleeves at red bottom.

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My chosen idea is is Idea 1 and to sing a solo song to 'Home' from Beetlejuice. I have chosen this because I want to show off my singing skills. I have also  chosen this because in the song there is a lot of sad emotion Lydia is giving off. She has lost her mum and no one is giving Lydia the emotionally support she wants. She is in the nevetherworld hoping she could find her mum, but relieased it is impossible. She become stuck and confused weather or not to carry on looking for her or to go back home. She ends up going back home but is scared that she going to forget about her mum, but  father Charles makes a promise that he and Lydia can talk about her mum whenever. I have cut out the covnersattion part in this song as I .....
I believe that I can make this song believable and bring the character to life. One challenge I am facing with this is the confidence. I do feel that I have manage to break this down a little, as I asked Rachel in our class to listen to my best recording and give me feedback. I asked her because she is singing coach and i trusted her with whatever she tells me. Her feedback was I have a very good tune and lovely quality to my voice. She gave me feedback which was to only speak when needed, work on my low notes, and sing through the chest. Because of this amazing feedback I decieded that this would be a great opputinity for me to show off my singing, whilst improving on these improvments.
In order to help me overcome my confidence, I will start off by singing in front of people, like my class and friends and family. This will help me because once i sing in front of them and get their feedback, I will start to feel more confidence in myself and to sing in front of an audience.

Within the time peridod I have to help me improve my singing, I will be using  Vocal Tube 3 times a 6 days a week. I will complete a warm up in the mornings and a cool down afternoon and one exerice everyday. The way this is done, is to place the tube into a bottle of water and when your doing this, it helps somethign and your training your voice in water resistance exercise. To make sure I don't over exerice my voice or damage my voice i will be doing this 6 days a week and giving my voice a rest day.

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This week we learnt about Sarah Kane. Sarah was born in 1971 in Brentwood of Essex and daughter of a journalist. (Pg1 Ravenhill. M 1999)
Sarah first show was Blasted with extreme reactions from the press making the front page in the Daily Mail. The sow took places in a hotel room in Leeds where an older man is trying to seduce a young lady.
(Evans 2015 Pg1)
Sarah Kane is known for her in your face theatre shows. In total she wrote 5 plays.
Quinn (1999) tells us that Sarah was trying to kill her self on more then occasion 'On February 17, in her first suicide attempt, Ms Kane swallowed almost 150 antidepressant tablets and 50 sleeping pills. She was taken to King's College hospital' (Pg1)
The hospital was quick to saving Sarah.
After attempting she tried to kill her self more than once she we assign a psychiatric nurse.

Quinn (1999) explained the death of 'Sarah Kane went unchecked by medical staff for more than 90 minutes before hanging herself in a hospital toilet, despite the diagnosis of psychiatrists that she was suicidal and required constant monitoring' (Pg1)

Following her death her parents wanted answers as to why the hospital didn't take proper care of Sarah and lead her to killing herself.
Quinn (1999) tells us after Sarah death what the hospital reaction was 'the hospital spokesman said that none of the changes would have prevented her death.'(Pg1)

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This week we learnt about verbatim and documentary drama.
Documentary drama is a true story which ha been turned into a television series. Extra scenes and character may be added to make the show entertaining.
Verbatim is a form of words that was said in a real life situation and has been copied into documentary drama. One example is in White House Farm, there is a phone called made from Jeremy Bamber to the police saying that he has just been on the phone to his father saying his sister is going crazy and shooting her family. The transcript from the real phone call, was copied in the TV series on White House Farm.
White house farm is a true story about Jeremey Bamber who murders his parents, sister and her 2 boys. The blame was pinned on Shelia Bamber who was found dead with a gun on her chest. She took a shot to her throat and her forehead. Shelia was blamed because she was ill and diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Documented from the NHS (2019) 'Schizophrenia is a severe long-term mental health condition. It causes a range of different psychological symptoms' (pg1)
Systems can include avoiding people, not caring for self hygiene, losing interest in actives like housework, meeting with friends and family etc., Hallucinations and delusions.
Due to all of these systems Sheila was blamed for everyone's death at white house farm. The true killer was Jeremy Bamber who sneaked in through a loose widow in the kitchen. He murder his family so she could inherit the family fortune. After the 18 day trail, Jeremey ex's girlfriend told the police that it was Jeremey who killed his family.
Jeremey was then sentence to a  minimum of 25 years in prison.

We got into pairs and each read the phone call script between Jeremey and the police.

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Original West End Cast of Everybody's Talking About Jamie - Topic

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The Greatest Showman Cast - This Is Me (Official Audio)

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This week we had a small version of the blood brother script explain the show in 20 minutes.  Blood Brothers is a story about 2 twin boys separated at birth, by  there mother Mrs. Johnson who has a lot of children and is very poor. She works as a house cleaner for Mrs. Lyons. Mrs. Lyons cannot have children and when she finds out that Mrs. Johnson is pregnant and is struggling to live, Mrs. Lyons ask Mrs. Johnson to give her one of the twins.  The 2 boys are parted at birth and Mrs. Lyons fires Mrs. Johnson when she is always looking at her baby Edward.

Mrs. Johnson keeps Mickey and he grows up on the poor side of town, while Edward lives a rich life. The two boys meet at the age of 7 and find out that there birthdays are on the same day and become blood brothers. Mrs. Lyons moves Edward when she finds out that Edward and Mickey know each other. When they leave Mrs. Johnston gives Edward a locket with a picture of her and Mickey. Edwards where the locket all the time and when he refuse to take it off he is suspended from school. When Mrs. Lyon sees it she is in shock. She founds out that Mrs. Johnson has move near her, but was re-housed by the council and so she tries to stab Mrs. Johnson but fails.
The two boys met again when they are adults. Mickey is on pills and was housed with his girlfriend Lyndia by Edward and gets a job from him. Lyndia has been meeting up with Edward but don't knock why, and when Mrs. Lyons tells Mickey he goes crazy and grabs a gun hidden in the garden. Lyndia and Mrs. Johnson see him and runs after him to the town hall where Edward is. At the end Mickey is about to kill Edward and Mrs. Johnson tells him that Edward is his brother and Mickey shoots Edward and the police shoots Mickey.

We first went on stage and set out the opening. I knew how the performance was set out as I performed Blood Brother on Level 2 and was casted as the narrator. Everyone was given the chance weather or not they wanted to be the narrator in the opening scene and read the short monologue.  I decided not too because I have done this before. In the opening scene we find the 2 brothers dead. it starts off with the narrator walking on stage first, then the 2 brother coming on stage and laying dead, then Mrs. Lyon, Sammy, Lyndia, and Mrs. Johnson. After 10 seconds with everyone on stage one at a time leaves the stage but Mrs. Johnson and the Narrator, and the brothers are the last to leave the satge.

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This week we learnt 2 dances for our live performance. We first learnt the opening dance which is 'Don't even know it' from 'Everybody's talking about Jamie'.
Everybody's talking about Jamie' is based off a true story inspired by Jamie Campbell who inspired the west end to turn this heart warming story into a musical. This story was episode on the BBC in July 2011, and is currently in filming to be aired as a film.
The story tells us about a gay boy called Jamie New in year 11, and he wants to be a drag queen. He is always bullied mostly by the school bully Dean Paxton. His career teacher Miss hedge doesn't have faith in him or the other students who dream about being a star and having high expectations.
Jamie gets a small job as a drag queen, and becomes so wrapped up in fame he becomes very popular at school and put effort into his dream, be designing his prom dress.
Jamie dad doesn't live with him because he believe that Jamie shouldn't be gay, and so his mum Margert writes fake cards from his dad and hides the truth about his dad from Jamie. Jamie best Friend is Pritti pasha, who has known Jamie from a young age. She engroucage Jamie to follow his dreams and tell him to wear his new high heels to the prom. When Jamie wants to go to his prom in a dress the schools says no and can only go to prom in tuck. All the students the protest by saying if Jamie can't go to prom then they won't go. Jamie turns up to prom in a white dress and when the student refused to go in, Jamie was let in.
This musical took to the stage in February 2017 at the Apollo Theatre staring John McCrea as Jamie directed by Jenny Popplewell.
For this dance we are using chairs to make the stage look like a classroom and our costumes will be made to suit our character to look like year 11 school children.
I found learning the dance was very easy and worked well with the music. We then got spilt into 2 groups of 4 and as a group we had to choregraphed  the next count of 8. In my group Hollie took the lead and listen to our ideas. She choregraphed the 8 counts that was easy for us to learn and fitted in well with the music. During this time I went over these count to help me remember what happened, for example when I needed to point my two or arm. We then went over the dance a couple of times adding on our piece, which I  found was easy for me to remember.

We then showed each other the whole dance that we had learnt so far including our own part.
We then had enough time to carry on in our groups and add on the next count of 8s. I suggested after we did the first 3 moves that we should do a kick ball change and slide out away from each other. We then decide to move into a square so when do the kick ball change and slide to the right with Jess, and Hollie and Racheal do the same but to the left. We then perform the dance again to be filmed.

In the afternoon we learnt the ending dance to 'This is me' from 'The greatest Showman'. I found that this was a very easy dance to learn, however, I feel that we could add some more movements in to make it more energetic. This song is sung from the circus freaks saying that they are who they are and are not afraid to be them. They have hidden away from the world but since PT Barnum put them in the show they have became more confidence with themselves.
After performing the dance a few times, we had it filmed.

The greatest showman was released in December 2017 directed by Micheal Gracey. The film is about PT Barnum growing up  with nothing then raising a family with Charity, He builds a circus that involved acts with weird people from the street, like the breaded women, tattoo man etc. He gives them the spotlight to be notice, but he become to wrapped up in becoming noticed by the world that he loses his family and his business. He re builds the circus to be a traveling circus for the whole to see.
The film also involve the love between Anne an Phillip, because she is a freak and he is rich and when seen in public other rich people start to talk and laugh at them. When the circus starts to travel they aren't afraid to show their love for each other.

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My third idea is to perform scene 4 act 1 from Beetlejuice the musical. This scene is where the Deetz move into the Adam and Barbara house. The scene ends with 'Dead mom' sung by Lydia however, I want to change the song to Lydia solo part in the opening song Invisible. I want to do this as I want to show my acting side as well as my singing, and I feel that I can sing Invisible much better than Dead mom.

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My second idea is to dance a solo to 'My once upon a time' from the Disney film Descendants as Mal. I chose this as one of my ideas, to show off my dance skills. However because I am not a dancer I will go to one of my dance tutor to help me cheographe, this whilst adding in my own ideas. Within this song i plan to dance out Mal story. The song explains that she has lost everyone she trust and loves because she wasn't thinking about them, but how she would have to close the barrie and leave everyone on the aslie.
She explains that she has only been doing what she is told and puts a stop to it and lives her life how she wants it and make up what she has done wrong.

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My Frist idea is to sing the song Home from the Broadway musical Beetlejuice. This is Lydia Deetz solo song about how much she misses her dead mom and doesn't know what to do.
To help me decide weather I should chose this song I have decided to record myself singing the song and get other peoples opinions. This will help me because if they say that I shouldn’t do this song then I won’t be taking a big risk.
I am also doing this because I have not sung a solo before and if people say that my recording is good then I will work on my singing voice and confidence, to help prepare me.