Everyone who was auditioning for one of the Plastics had to get up and sing a section of Meet the Plastics - the Plastic you were auditioning for decided which section you would sing. I got up and sang Regina's part of the song and was then asked to do it again but be "meaner" which I did and I think that it went really well.

I then sang a section of World Burn which is Regina's big song and after The Director Nat got me to do a belting exercise to see if I could belt the high note which I could.

Overall, I think my audition went really well.

17/04 - The Cast List came out today and I got Regina which I'm very excited about and I can't wait to start rehearsals.

We did the harmonies for the section of Revenge Party that we're doing in the show and we got everyone involved in the big harmony at the end of Meet the Plastics.

We started workshopping The Ballad of Sweeney Todd but only got about a minute in. We then started working on A Cautionary Tale which is the opening number in Mean Girls and I learnt the Regina blocking while Liv did our ensemble blocking but I made sure I watched what she was doing so that I can replicate it when she's playing Regina.

We then worked on blocking and choreography for Time Warp (Rocky Horror) which the group has been working on for a few weeks. I haven't been in the number yet because I had a sprained ankle last term and couldn't dance; but I slotted myself in and it worked out pretty well.

We then spent the afternoon finishing Timewarp and we worked on the scene before as well as the song afterwards which is Sweet Transvestite and that was also just a lot of background acting.

It Roars

Where Do You Belong

Meet The Plastics

Revenge Party

Word Burn

Rather Be Me

I See Stars

Taken from Stage Agent website

With Liv being as talented and experienced as she is, being cast in the same role as her made me feel so proud of myself and how far I've come this year because it really proved to me that my teachers believe in me and my talent especially because Regina George is a very challenging character to play and her main song World Burn is easily one of the hardest Musical Theatre songs that's well known let alone that I've ever tried to sing.

Liv has has some personal issues over the last few months which has made rehearsals for Mean Girls rather difficult as I've had to learn two tracks simaultaneously and then help to teach both tracks to Liv when she is in College but its helped me learn how to balance learning multiple roles which could help if I ever got a job as a swing or understudy in the industry and it gave me more opportunities to practise the lead track when it was a Saturday night cast rehearsal and she wasn't in.

Overall, I think being double cast has been a very positive experience because it has given me a lot of confifence in my own abilities because its helped me see that everyone around me believes in me to pull it off ad its helped me learn how to juggle my roles and responsibilities as well as helping me learn how to balance and split my time between my two tracks.

Age: 17

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Straight 

Style of Speaking: Powerful, not loud but heard over the top of everything else. Strong and not particularly fast or slow.

Accent: General American

Social class: Upper-Middle class

Nationality: American

Language: English

Race: White

Appearance: Gorgeous, prettiest girl at school, always put together

Working conditions: Student, respected even by teachers and treated very well.

Family: Upper-Middle cass, working dad and stay at home mum, only child

Likes/Dislikes: Likes power, money, new clothes/makeup, looking good Dislikes anyone who tries to take over her place in the social hierarchy/anyone who crosses her

Regina had always been a dream role and to be given the chance to play her knowing that I had the full support of the entire company and my teachers made everything te times easier because everyone around me believed in me and if I ever had doubts, there was always someone to turn to who had my back 100%.

Having the HNC's and Second Years around to ask advice from was endlessly helpful as well. I was struggling with what to do in the Revenge Party scene but Max helped me get more comfortable with it and we brainstormed ideas together. I also worked quite closely with Melodie who was playing Janice on the other team so discover more about the bond and growth between our two characters and she showed me constantly that she had full faith in me that I could pull it off.

Regina was a character that I knew I could pull of but I don't think I ever imagined just how much I could progress with her in such a short space of time and I truly don't think any of it would've been possible without such a supportive group of people around me.

Look What Happened To Mabel

Big Time

I Won't Send Roses

Time Heals Everything

Tap Your Troubles Away

I Promise You A Happy Ending

Taken from Stage Agent website

Age: 25

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Straight

Style of Speaking: Clear and concise, to the point, strong, sometimes rushed due to the fast paced nature of the industry

Accent: General American

Social class: Working class

Nationality: American

Language: English

Volume: Not quiet but also not loud, wants to just do her job and please Mr Sennet

Race: White

Appearance: Black, tight, pinstripe dress, put together and professional

Working conditions: Good working conditions in the studio

Family: Working class, Military husband, no children yet

After doing some research and settling into the choreography, I quickly grasped what my character was and how I needed to be reacting and I think that my acting in Mack and Mabel was stronger than some of the other sections of the show.

It felt quite easy and natural to do in contrast with Rocky Horror and Sweeney Todd which both felt a bit odd to perform at times because its a lot more naturalistic than those two.

I think that compared to the start of rehearsals, my performance in Mack and Mabel has strengthened quite a lot and I'm pleased with how far I've come.

The Worst Pies In London

My Friends

Pirelli's Miracle Elixir

The Contest

A Little Priest

Epiphany

Taken from Stage Agent website

Age: 20

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Straight 

Style of Speaking: Slow and calm

Accent: English

Social class: Lower class

Nationality: English

Language: English

Vocal quality: Clear and Concise, slightly nasally

Volume: Not quiet but also not loud, wants to just blend in.

Race: White

Appearance: Put together but obviously not upper class

Working conditions: Works in the fields because women aren't allowed proper jobs

Family: Husband and two children, likes to go shopping with her sisters

I soon figured out more and more about the show from my castmates and my independent research and I think that assisted a lot with my characterisation and acting throughout the group numbers. Tim was also a lot of help because instead of just telling us what to do, he lets us try different things and then tells us if they did or didn't work and why which allows for us to reflect and work as a team to make sure that our erformamces are cohesive.

Sweeney turned out to be one of my favourite sections to perform and The ballad was easily my favourite ensemble number overall because I felt really comfortable with it and it felt as though we were performing together as one ensemble rather than loads of individual smaller people and I think that showed in our performance on the night.

Dammit Janet

Time Warp

Sweet Transvestite

I Can Make You A Man

Touch-A Touch-A Touch Me

I'm Going Home

Superheroes

Time Warp Reprise

Taken from Stage Agent wesite

Age: 19

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Unlabelled 

Style of Speaking: Fast and squeaky especially around Frank

Accent: General American

Language: English

Vocal quality: Nasal quality, higher pitched than my regular voice.

Volume: Loud and seeking attention

Race: White

Appearance: Out there and unique

Working conditions: Unemployed, stays in the lab with Frank

Family: Frank and the other groupies

Over time, I got better at embracing it but I don't think that I fully went for it until Tech week because there's something about being on stage with the lights, costume and set that allows me to feel so much more comfortable and confident in my self and my performance skills.

It definitely wasn't easy to do but I think that the performance ended up looking incredible and I'm happy with my actions and characterisations.

They then decided to focus on the tap number for Mack and Mabel so those of us not in that went up to the library to edit the scripts for all of the different shows that we're doing to make sure that they're 100% ready for the sound and lighting crew at The Cripps.

We then spent the afternoon working on the Mean Girls routines and cleaned them. We also did the dance breaks in I See Stars right at the end of the section so that we could block and finish setting it tomorrow.

We worked on the end of I See Stars and finished blocking the number so that everything in the Mean girls section was 100% blocked.

We then did a run through of the whole section to time it and see how it flows and I think it went pretty well but I need to focus on learning my lines so that I can work on my characterisation in my lead role.

They then needed to work on finishing the tap number which I'm not apart of so I sat and worked on running lines for Mean Girls instead and I watched videos of our other routines to make sure I wasn't forgetting any of them.

We then spent some time working on our acting for Rocky Horror to make sure we were being weird and fully embracing the characters.

This afternoon, the Sweeney leads stayed with Tim while the rest of us split off to work on Mean Girs blocking again and make sure that all of it was 100% clear for everyone.

We then spent time working on different numbers from different sections of the show. We polished I see Stars from Mean Girls and checked over those harmonies; we alo looked at Science Fiction which opens Rocky Horror and checked on Look What Happened to Mabel from Mack and Mabel and the leads added in a small dance break section.

Our main focus was Where Do You Belong as the harmonies had completely disappeared and the spacing was comletely wrong for most of the number. We made it look ad sound decent again but were told to make sure we practise a lot over half term to ensure that we don't forget everything again.

I think that my ensemble acting was on point and I didn't forget any of my words or entrances. I did fprget one o fthe scenes in Mean Girls which obviously isn't ideal but the story still made sense and then Nat chose to get rid of it for the Saturday night show too.

Overall, I'm really happy with how this show run went.

We worked on both the movement and the acting and we made a lot of progress with how clean those numbers are and how effective they look overall.

We also did a last run through of harmonies before heading home.

We all came onto the stage in the evening to run through a couple of the bigger numbers and we re blocked a few bits on the stage too.

We also worked on Mack and Mabel spacing and tech because Mack and Mabel has a lot more props and set than Mean Girls, Rocky Horror or Sweeney Todd.

We spent the rest of the day perfecting harmonies and spacing for different numbers because Nat wasn't happy with a lot of it.

Liv was playing Regina again so I was focused on my ensemble role for this dress run and I think it went pretty well but it was running very long.

I went in for an hour to work on World Burn because I was having trouble with the belting sections of the song.

Nat helped me a lot with character and technique even though my voice was struggling quite a bit and I'm feeling a lot more confident with the sing now.

We then did our final dress run before the show tonight and I was playing Regina which stressed me out quite a lot but I think I did quite well.

This musical is more pop music based too so the style of dancing/movement was more on the jazzy side compared to the other musicals we did like Mack and Mabel which was 1930s based and therefore vastly different.

The biggest challenges for me came from my costume and my posture because I'm used to being more slouched over which women wouldn't have been in that era.

The singing was difficult as well because that era of musical requires a certain vocal quality that doesn't come naturally to me like it does to some of the other girls. The dancing was also quite jazz based but in a different way to Mean girls. Mack and Mabel is supposed to reflect Old Hollywood vibes whereas Mean Girls is modernised and less flashy.

In the opening number, we directly address the audience which is something we also do at the start of Mean Girls but in Sweeney it almost feels like we're attacking the audience with our words of warning.

The movement is also dramatised in Sweeney Todd and every head turn and step is perfecty choreographed to be completely in unison as though we're in a trance watching the character Sweeney.

The singing has a lot of different harmonies that create an ominous feeling and the soprano line goes a lot higher than it does in the other musicals making it almost shrill.

The singing has to have a nasally almost inhumane quality to resemble the otherworldliness of the show which is unusual for me and definitly not something that I find comes easily to me.

The dancing and movements have to be big and bold and you really have to take the choreography and make it your own which is something that you can't do with the other musicals because you have to be one big cohesive ensemble whereas for Rocky Horror every person in the ensemble has to be completely seperate and individual to make the show work.