somebody to love performance

For the last few weeks of the term our group of three have been working on performing the song ‘somebody to love’ from we Will Rock you. I was so happy to have got this song as it’s from my favourite musical and it’s possibly the best song in the whole show.  I was also a tad scared because it’s such a huge song. But the fact I’m in love with the show meant I knew the words and understood what was going on and how it should come across to an audience. Louise had also seen the show which put our group in a great position to do the song justice.

Ellie and Louise took on the roles of gaga girls whilst I was Scaramouch. For the first few lessons we spent ages just listening to the soundtrack and working on getting the harmonies and words right. This was a lot trickier for Louise and Ellie because they had to block out the main beat and lyrical arrangement which is hard enough in any song let only one that’s as powerful as ‘Somebody to love‘ is. Once we had all got the hang of it though it became a lot easier to start working on staging and movement.

We wanted to try and put in a lot of the movements and the same sort of staging that they have in the West end version because it’s so brilliantly done and hilarious to watch. So for that reason decided that the gaga girls would do everything in unison and have a gang like feel to them which makes Scaramouche look like even more of an outsider. The gaga girls had simple yet very effective movements whilst I made a big thing out of avoiding both Ellie and Louise to show Scaramouch’s disgust for the gaga girls.

Once we had sorted the staging and words we really started working on characterisation and adding in the small bit of dialogue that comes before the song. This helped us all really get into character and almost prepare for the song. We then performed this at the A level media evening. Everyone was so scared on the day. Ellie was worried about how she looked when she danced and I was terrified my voice would crack and then I wouldn’t do justice to such an amazing song. It sounds cliché but once the music was on and id sung the first note I was fine and I really really really loved it! I was so pleased with how it turned out and how well my group did and I’m glad we get to do it once more for our assessment when we get back to school.