Thursday, January 28

ROY HART WORKSHOP
We played a game using gibberish that was really quite awesome. We sort of turned into a tribal society... and then I think Thrill became a child... D-Train, Big Show, and Iceman were sort of a gang terrorizing him... Then we ended up playing duck-duck-goose (still in gibberish), then got in a fight again, and finally ended up singing a gibberish version of "Happy Birthday" to Thrill. It was totally weird. But fun.

We explored the girls high ranges today. And every girl in my class hit a C6 (also known as "high C" or "the note that you have to hit to play the lead in Phantom of the Opera). It was super impressive. I think I actually hit a couple of notes beyond it... They sounded more like screeching than singing, but I think that's the goal of this workshop: to explore parts of your voice that you don't usually access, and try to expand your range.


MACHINAL
Our ensemble exercises didn't go quite as well as they did last night... Unfortunately...

It seems to me that the problems that we have had in ensemble exercises generally has little to do with how well we work as an ensemble. Most of the troubles we have arise from things like:
- not everyone is a stellar speller
- not everyone has a perfect memory
- not everyone has a great sense of rhythm

...things like that.

Oh well. We'll keep working, and we'll get better. We always do.