Today, we worked out the Johanna reprise. We were originally
going to have Tom and Rob, but we felt this wasn’t a very interesting way to
perform this. We decided to create a rhythmic piece based a lot on the musical
Stomp. In Stomp, they use everyday objects like trashcans and brooms, as
percussive instruments and this is something we wanted to replicate in Johanna
Reprise. We wanted to get every character involved with this number to somewhat
show the characters going about their daily actions; we felt that this would
how that despite life going on as normal for everyone else, Todd and Anthony
obsess over Johanna.
The noises we used were Mrs Lovett whacking a rolling pin on
her counter, Toby sweeps the floor with his broom, Beadle walks around and
stomps his stick down violently, Judge Turpin banging on a stage block
representing a gavel, Johanna tapping on a case she’s packed for fleeing with
Anthony and Dan and Ollie M as patrons of the pie shop clinking mugs. Upon
practising this we felt that it sounded great and worked very for the scene.
However, when it came to Beggar Woman sections, continuing at our regular pace
would’ve sounded odd so we decided to be sporadic with our noises, speeding up
and slowing down. This sounded very effective and worked well with the tempo of
the song. I felt this was a good way to make a simple song more complex.
Next lesson, we will review the other numbers we’ve already
done and we will workshop them also.
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