Show Day: Thursday 12th - Saturday 14th, Evening and Saturday 14th, Matinee

The evening performances between Thursday 12^th and Saturday 14^th and the Saturday matinee were all very similar in terms of performances, a part from the slight mishap of only four girls coming on stage for the opening of Act 2 on Friday evening. This resulted in the rest of the girls joining them gradually. This was slightly stressful but I felt we handled it quite well. Having dealt with a similar situation in our dress rehearsal I made the executive decision to go on regardless of the dance having already begun. I walked on singing before taking my place to join in. The rest of the girls followed on and we managed to cover the mistake reasonably well. This showed me that regardless of mistakes you must continue in a professional manner and help bring the performance back together.
 

The opening of Act 2.

"Let Me Entertain You"

 

An issue that was found in a few of the shows was that the energy would fall flat at moments or we would get complacent. I found that all evening performances after Wednesday were slightly flatter as they weren’t as easy to get a reaction from the audience. We would get small chuckles from individuals but there were few occasions when there would be loud, uncontrollable laughter. At times we were also dragging reactions out of the audience. I think that because the reactions from the audience weren’t quite as large as in our matinees we lost some of the energy resulting in scenes feeling flat. Each audience deserves the same amount of energy given at their show and we were successful in picking things up to ensure the energy or pace didn’t falter. This isn’t to say that the audiences weren’t brilliant, just slightly more reserved than others, further emphasising that no two audiences are the same.