This song worked well, because the timing of each line is very clear. Having said that, particular characters have too many syllables in their lines, so have to awkwardly squish them in. The challenge with this song wasn't the learning of it, but the performance. Musically we were correct, but the attitude we wanted wasn't portrayed:
- the first couple of times that we ran through, everyone was singing it in a shy, innocent, almost embarrassed themselves way. Whereas we really needed an accusing tone, pointing and laughing at Joe.
- In order to achieve this attitude, Kim had us all in one line, facing the Joe cast, and In character started to insult them. These insults varied from what they were wearing, how they stand, not getting the jobs they wanted and also imitating their lines in a sarcastic, mocking way. Whilst we were shy and hesitant to do this at first, as we got into the swing of it, the attitude we wanted to come across began to in our vocals.
-For next time we need to block the song so that the attitude is communicated in our body language and actions as well as the tone and voice of our vocals. Ideas we had for this included Joe walking through various scenes with different social groups and being knocked and mocked by each group and he walked on. This works well with the song because it makes the most of the solos and duets of specific people mocking him.
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