Monday, 25 May 2015

Da Doo

Da Doo is a short narration-type song lead by Kyle, as he explains how he came across Audrey II. It follows a comedic scene where Mushnik yells that the plant wont attract business, but immediately does with the entrance of Carl, the customer. Upon this entrance,Carl explains his story, and the 3 Girls come in singing Da Doo. Whilst this happens, to further the comedy, myself, Meg and Carl hold our frozen states and bounce in time to the back of the stage, and much like a chorus would in a concert performance, we click in time to the music. But the comedic aspect comes from holding the facial expressions, with Meg being overjoyed, Carl having a cheesy grin and myself holding an expression of pure shock the entire time.

Everyone is moving in their own little narratives in this song behind Kyle, who jumps into the fake fantasy world built around him to visualise to the audience the purchase of his plant. The only designated choreography is when the words 'total eclipse of the sun' occurs. On 'sun', everyone looks up to the right of the hall, illustrating where the sun is, however it isn't there! So following that is a musical bump, to whicheveryone snaps their heads to the upper left corner of the hall. And as soon as the music kicks in, we are back to the movements we have created individually for the remainder of the song. The ending evokes more cheesiness as we all (still holding those facial expressions) crowd round Kyle and do the classic jazz hands ending that is stereotyped into musical theatre.

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