Shrek!

On Monday 30th April I went to see the musical of 'Shrek' at the royal theatre in Drury Lane. This was very exciting as I had wanted to see this theatre performance for months but only was able to see it on this date. It was defiantly worth the wait however! I loved this musical and through it was very funny. Kimberly Walsh out of girls aloud was playing princess Fiona, she was good however her singing could have been slightly better to suit her part. My two favourite characters were donkey and Farquad (who as played by Neil McDermott a characters from eastenders), he was hilarious!
I had heard a lot of mixed commented about this performance before I had even gone to see it, some people didn't enjoy it and say that they wouldn't go and see it again however others said it was very enjoyable who I agreed with, I loved the staging and almost every bit of the singing. It was a entertaining musical to watch and I would 100% go and see this play again if I had the chance!

Here is a picture of the stage that the musical was performed on, our seats were great too!

End of year performance

The 27th of April was the day we chose to put a show together which would show off our skills that we have learn over the past two years of the btec Performing Arts course. We put our all into this performance and enjoyed every bit of it. We included many techniques that we had learnt over the past couple of years. It was a great evening.

Throughout some of February and April we planned, prepared, choreographed and rehearsed for this show. We all wanted and needed it to look brilliant and have a good vibe for the audience. We chose the theme of dreams and aspirations and pulled together ideas of songs and dances that we could do such as Maybe and Hard Knock Life from Annie, Somebody to love and Dont stop me now from We will Rock You, Chicago and also included just a singing number which was Use Somebody by Pixie Lott.
In preparation for the show, we held a few lunch time rehearsals as well as an after school rehearsal too.

Although we had done many performances as a class in the past, this was defiantly the most nerve racking as it was everything we have done over two years as well as it being our very last variety performance as a whole group. It was a very emotional time for everyone involved in this course including the teachers.

We were also being assessed on our performances as well the backstage and planning side of it. We had to chose the layout of how we wanted the audience which we decided they would be sat on tables with nibbles and the theme of purple and silver so we bought balloons to match the theme, glitter for the tables, purple table cloths and purple programmes and flowers. we stayed on the day after school to get it all ready and sort out the refreshments for them. We made sure that all the other extra acts knew what they were doing and when they would be going on stage, so we wrote up a running order and put copies of it backstage so they could see as well as the runners could see too.

The show was so much fun and ran smoothly all night which was great. The audience and teachers that came to watch all left us with lovely comments. Everyone as well as ourselves were all very proud of every performance that we done and we kept it all very professional. I really enjoyed our last song of Use Somebody which we used to end the show and had Jack Dent playing the guitar for us so we could sing it acoustic so our voices would be focused on. This song sounded great and people said that it was amazingly performed. I dont think there was anything that we could have improved on, we all tried our hardest and were very proud of ourselves and everyone else in the group!  

 The picture above is us all singing our last song with Jack Dent on guitar.