With the time approaching us quickly, in fact only 2 weeks from today, I wanted to write the last character reference before the craziness of back to school overtakes me! The audition posters have been made, the copies and warm and the students I am sure, are excited! I have one last character blog I wanted to dedicate towards the highlighted roles in the show. This one is for those who want to be highlighted, but maybe don't want a huge solo or many lines to memorize, Little Mermaid has some roles which will give us the opportunity to highlight many actors. Here are a few that you may not have known or been aware of:
Well that closes out our role descriptions. I hope this gives you a better idea of the show and lets you see how many opportunities we will have to feature a ton of students in highlighted & featured roles. Overall, these roles will all be really fun, fantasy characters to create & re-imagine when we begin rehearsal in 2 weeks! If you haven't yet read the blog about auditions, make sure you do that to help prepare you! See you soon!
-Rachel
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What I really enjoy about Disney's The Little Mermaid is there are so many places to highlight people, we have already dove into those characters: supporting & featured. This week our focus are on the leading players. If you didn't read last week's blog on auditions, I would highly recommend you do that so you are prepared. Auditions are in 17 days! Don't hesitate to email Rachel with any questions, that form can be found on the home page.
Well last week was the week for meetings. I was able to meet with our creative team: Robin, Joleen & Jay. We discussed the set, costumes, dance and brainstormed some great ideas! I have updated the calendar with some preset tech days, make sure to take a peek. Remember in order to letter you need tech time! Robin will be having dance rehearsal every Friday! Wahoo!! Then I met with our production team: KC & Erin S., we discussed auditions, music, fundraising, schedules, budgets....you name it! We got a lot accomplished! Auditions- Sept 7 (4:30-7:000 & Sept 8 (9-11)
Callbacks- Sept 11 (start at 4:30)Callbacks will be run similarly as before. We will email you music to look over before Monday. Then on Monday we will have you either, read, sing or both. We only callback people we need to see again, maybe it's for something specific (an accent or movement) or maybe we want to hear you read or sing with someone. If you are not called back that does not mean you are not cast or you don't have a featured or highlighted role. I know people had asked if they could bring their own piece, we are still waiting to hear back from an accompanist, but if you have a karaoke version of that song feel free to bring that along as well. We do not encourage acapella. By singing with music we can hear if you can match pitch and follow the tempo. The cast list with be posted on the web page under cast page, linked to Facebook. It will be posted on the cast board in the English hallway. Please make sure to initial next to your name to accept your role. All of this will be done by Wednesday morning. I hope this helps and we are really looking forward to a fin-tastic show [see what I did there ;)]. Please don't hesitate to email me or KC with any questions about auditions! ><(((`> Rachel Music for auditionsBelow is the music selected for auditions if you wanted to sing a number from the show. Please select a song that best suits and shows off your voice.
Week two of the role introductions in our fall musical: Disney's The Little Mermaid. Today marks 30 days until auditions! Wow! This week for me is full of meetings! I am meeting with KC & Erin to discuss the schedule, auditions, and the show itself. I am also meeting with Robin & Joleen to discuss the concept ideas of dance & costumes. Yahoo! This week I would like to start focusing on the featured roles, there are many in Disney's The Little Mermaid so grab a cup of lemonade and a snack, here we go! MersistersAriel's sisters all have their own personality and have the opportunity to build great characters with character voices. The songs they are featured in are: "Daughters of Triton" and "She's In Love". The will be dancing both numbers. Aquata the eldest is helpful, but bossy, always tries to be the peacemaker. Andrina is the most athletic, good sense of humor, loves jokes & pranks. Arista is vain & selfish. Most jealous of Ariel & envies her adventure. Atina is the smartest, bookworm & most clever. Always tries to give good advice to her sisters. She is most responsible. Adella is the dullest of the mersisters, not the brightest bulb...as so they say. Allana is the sweetest, she is shy and loves plants & animals.
Supporting Roles!Well it's now August, and our Audition countdown on the cast page says 35 days until the first step in our fall musical! I can't believe it's that close already. Erin has been posting some great audition tips on Instagram & Facebook, so check those out. But when auditioning you should become familiar with the roles in the show. That way you can try to emit aspects & characteristics of that character at auditions, or better yet at callbacks have a sense of who you might be reading for in a scene. In a musical there are so many different types of roles and many of which are highlighted so differently. In Disney's The Little Mermaid I want to shine a spotlight on certain roles weekly to maybe give you an idea of some of the fun roles available!! Keep in mine movement is really important for all the sea creatures in this show! They are constantly moving! If you get a callback keep that in mind as you are reading for sea creatures! Be on the look out next week for more character spotlights! -Rachel
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