Rent Evaluation:
Act One:
Opening (Tune Up #1, Voicemail #1,
Tune Up #2, Rent):
I felt that the opening was very
strong and conveyed the emotions of our characters very well to begin with. My
entrance was noticeable although I feel I needed more volume to be heard over
the music. This is because I am standing next to the speaker at this point so
if I were to perform this again, I would either stand further away from the
speaker or sing louder.
Today 4 U/You'll See:
I feel that Today 4 U went very
well! We had lots of energy and we all interacted with each other well when
Owen comes on as Angel. During You’ll See, Owen and I looked very lost
throughout as we didn’t have many lines. Also at the end when we’re all
supposed to say “We’ll see” only Cameron does so as the rest of us forgot.
Besides this, the rest of the song went very well.
Life Support/Another Day/Will I?:
For Life Support, Cameron managed
to get the timing right for the fast section at the beginning which kept
spirits high throughout this section. Everyone in the chorus could be heard
during Another Day when we sing “I can’t control...” For Will I?, Henri and
Owen left the stage at the right time which had been an issue a few times in
rehearsal.
Santa Fe/I'll Cover You:
This part of RENT was probably the
best section for me as my character. Santa Fe was full of energy and showed off
my full range of vocal abilities. The movement was purposeful which stopped the
number being forced.
I’ll Cover You was simply flawless.
This was the best time we’d ever done it before with nice sounding harmonies,
romantic movement and a believable kiss to end it.
Act Two:
La Vie Boheme/Happy New Year:
La Vie Boheme was a very impressive
opening to Act Two with plenty of energetic movements. However, when it came to
the “...brothers” section, Owen and I looked very awkward as when we kissed, we
staggered before doing so making it look forced.
Happy New Year was purposeful and
had plenty of movement which represented mood of the scene. Our separation
between certain characters and our spacing displayed our relationships very
well.
Without You/I'll Cover You
(Reprise):
Without You was, in my opinion, one
of the best numbers in the entire show. Taylor and Henri’s singing mad the
scene extremely emotional as well as the miming in the background of the scene.
Despite being non-verbal, our movement scene did well to display the emotions
of the scene, not to mention the conflict between Maureen and Joanne and
Benny’s redemption.
I’ll Cover You (Reprise) was the
best it’s ever been. I feel I conveyed a great deal of emotion through this
song and my facial expressions supported this. Towards the end, I lost volume
as I went too high and I started to crack but I pulled this off into stuttering
and crying which I felt worked well.
Goodbye Love/Seasons of Love:
At the
last minute, I changed how I enter in Goodbye Love from walking in slowly into
a run. This shows that I could hear my friends arguing from some sort of
distance. I feel that my tone of voice during scene shows my disgust towards my
friends and could possibly reveal that I leave my friends. This, of course,
unconfirmed in our version as we end at Goodbye Love.
Seasons
of Love was also very good! It was a brilliant ending to the rollercoaster of
emotions which is RENT!
General Notes:
- Due to technical difficulties, the mobile phone used for the music in the performance received multiple notifications throughout the show which were sounded over the speakers which not only played a tone, but lowered the volume of the song playing at the time while the tone sounds.
- There were some errors regarding set/props such as two blocks being brought on for Owen to stand on during I’ll Cover You (Reprise) and props being left on the table after Will I? when they needed to be removed for Santa Fe.
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