Five Forever

Hello,

This past Tuesday we finally blocked and choreographed the musical number "Five Forever". In this number Jo declares Laurie as the March sisters' brother they never had. The rehearsal went well although it was incredibly hot in the rehearsal room. We were only singing through the sung to brush up on our parts and by the time that ended we were all sweating! Then, we actually started learning the dance steps and the heat only got worse. We persevered through it, though. The choreography wasn't too difficult to learn but it did take us about two hours to learn the entire song. The whole song is only 2 and 1/2 minutes; so you can see how much work goes into each little part of the show. Like I said in an earlier entry, rehearsing some scenes seems to take forever and then in the context of the show, it is only one small portion. There is some really cute dancing in this song. Right before my solo singing line there are some dance steps that we all do and as we were learning the steps we tried multiple things before settling on what we wanted. At one point our choreographer, Felicia, had me do a leap across the stage right before my line. But then, we realized that since Beth is supposed to be a more "sickly" child a leap might not be the best thing to do! We eventually settled on something else. :-) It will be interesting doing all of this dancing and singing once we get our costumes on. Having to deal with big skirts and maybe even corsets will definitely make things a little more challenging. Well, that's all for now, thanks for reading!

Suzanne