Triple - Musical Theatre Unit (RENT) - Blog 3 - 28/09/16

Today, we found out our roles within Rent and they are as follows:

• Mark - Cameron
• Roger - Henri
• Mimi - Taylor
• Collins - Lewis (Me)
• Angel - Owen
• Benny - Will
• Maureen - Alice
• Joanne - Lorna
• Multiple Roles - Tyler & Warren

I am very happy with this casting as I achieved my goal of wanting to be one of the main three male characters; despite not getting Mark like I wanted I am still very satisfied with Collins and he has lots of good songs and it will be fun to perform with Owen for the majority of the musical.

After finding out our roles, we were asked to research our characters for some time to get a better idea of who we are playing. In this time, I have created a character profile, a relationships diagram and made a note of all the songs within the musical which Collins is involved in whether he has a solo or if he is singing as part of the company (ensemble):

We then went on to rehearse Season of Love, the signature song of the musical. We started off listening to the song so those who had never heard it before. After listening, we sung along with the vocals to help us get used to it and learn the harmonies etc. After this we sung it through once without the vocals so we could get used to singing it without and so we can hear our own and each others voices. We then went on to work closer in on the harmonies, especially on the, "measure in loooooove" line.

Next lesson, we will continue on with this number, adding in the "oo's" and possibly clapping on, "it's time now, to sing out, tho' the story never ends..." We will then possibly move onto Rent.