Little Shop- day 5

Today we began running act one including all the dance number we had set including 'little shop of horror', 'skid row' and 'Da-Doo' and began setting the scenes that went into and out of each of the numbers. 
When we ran through Little Shop of horror there were parts of the dance which I was unsure on and this is because we didn't work with the choreographer while the rest of the cast learnt the dance this meant there were sections of the dance for use which were not yet set. This made it hard for me to get hold of the dance. 
When we ran through the dialogue I found it hard to get into my character a she is the complete opposite to my personality which meant I really had to do my research into how i would play her and how to make her character come across as confident and sassy as possible.
When we ran through skid row I started to feel more confident with my solo at the beginning which helped me to come out in my character. in the dance we moved people about and added a few extra bits to make the number smoother and make the stage look tidier. We then ran through the number again with the adjustments. This song needs more effort put into it so it has more effect on the audience.
We then continued running act one and when we got to Da-Doo we realised that it looked messy and needed more animation to it. We needed to move everyone down stage and this was to spread everyone out and give everyone their own space. In the middle of the piece we added a movement that we all do together which is in the line 'total eclipse of the sun' in this we all look up to the top right corner of the stage and then the light comes up on the left and we all look there. Adding comedy to the number.
After this we split into groups to work on different things I went into a group with Freya and Tom and we worked on the harmonies on our songs. We firstly listened to the tracks through and worked out our harmonies and who would be singing each harmony. We then worked through each song with the backing track to get the timing right. This was hard as the back tracks had very different timings to the cast recording.
We finally performed Skid row and little shop with the back tracks to see what it sounded like. We need to work on these as for some of the song we are not sure of the words so we need to make sure we know them or it sound muffled and it doesn't sound confident.