variety show

Variety show.
In performing arts now we are working towards a big end of year show that will show off all that we have been learning through the last two years. Firstly we had to pick a theme that would enable us to have a wide variety of acts so we weren’t limited. We toyed with the idea of an Oscar’s themed show and an ‘around the world’ theme but in the end we settled of loosely basing it around the musical ‘Annie’ but focussing more on the dreams of the orphans. Straight away we got started on choreographing the opening number which we decided should be two popular Annie songs ‘maybe’ and ‘its a hard knock life’. We decided for maybe we would just focus on the singing and make sure it sounded good; for it’s a hard knock life we choreographed simple dance moves that fitted well with the musical we had chosen. Rehearsals for both these numbers were very successful and everyone had a lot of good ideas to put forward meaning it was easy for us to get it done quickly which was important as we have a whole show to devise.
To incorporate our costume construction work into our show so because our costumes were made based on the show ‘we will rock you’ the easiest thing for us to do was choreograph a we will rock you number. We settled for two songs ‘don’t stop me now’ and ‘somebody to love’. We choose these songs because they are very well known and there is a lot of room for dance and singing in both of them. Getting a routine devised for ‘don’t stop me now’ proved harder than the Annie songs because everyone had a bit of a different idea about how it should look. I think because a lot of people haven’t seen the show they interpret it differently to those who have but this was interesting because in the end we got a very good routine devised that everyone really loves performing.