First Weekend of Rehearsals!

This past weekend was our first weekend of rehearsals for New Student Cab, and I'm beyond excited to open next weekend. Yesterday we got our two group numbers and they sound absolutely fabulous! The people in my program continue to amaze me with how talented everyone is. The opening number sounds so cool, it's very Rent-esque and it sounds kind of like rock-pop. My teacher described it as the musical theater piece, and our closing number is our classical piece, because the two songs are such opposites of each other. But it's cool because it shows versatility and that, in her words, we're effing awesome.

Today we ran through the show from top to bottom, except for the group numbers. We basically just ran everyone's solo pieces in order. There are four groups, and I'm in the last one. They alternate between Classical Voice and Music Theatre. For the most part the people in my group are good friends of mine; there's just one guy who I don't know very well. I like my group the best because everyone stays on stage throughout each other's songs, and the way that my teacher organized our group is that everyone's song pairs up with someone else's. My song is called "I Think I May Want to Remember Today" and it's about wanting to remember a particular day, a particular moment, and then the song that comes after me is my friend Dexter's, and his is about looking back and wishing he'd appreciated the little moments more because moments are fleeting and you don't realize what you had til it's gone. There are two other pairs of songs in my group, and then my friend Mitch sings "Something's Coming" at the end, which actually pairs pretty well with our closing song, "Hope".

This week we have rehearsal every night from 7-11 in preparation for Friday. I'm not too concerned about the short rehearsal process because I've had to put a show on in about two weeks before, and it's not like we have many super involved dance numbers or anything. There's some movement but this performance is more about showcasing our voices. Plus it helps that two of the four group numbers we're doing we learned in choir, so we already had some of the work done.