Rehearsals Day 6 - It's like a Heatwave...

OK - so it's NOT like a heatwave, it's still blinking freezing - but anyhow!

Final day of the first week, so we've been adding on the choreography for a few numbers in Hitsville USA and smartening up the bits we've already learned.

(Here's Charles and Sara 'bumping' their way through "Heatwave")

Charles has been given a chance  to make use of his long legs, and has been taking over the mantle of 'dancer boy' for the girl's numbers. Lucky him (and lucky them, of course!)

We'll be moving onto a new show next week, which will be quite weird when it feels like we've only just started on THIS one! There's still a bit more to learn, so we will no doubt be coming back to it again soon... fingers crossed!

(Sara getting the low-down on some of next week's music from Leigh)

The Dancers have had the day off today (lucky buggers - school trip, hotel stays, exciting "off site pre-production work" (are you getting the idea with that yet?!), meals out, comedy paint effect... for some of them anyhow ;-) Sounds like lots of fun to me - when's our trip away?

Following the now almost daily trip to Tescos (eeek - that has got to stop!) we spent some time during the afternoon working on the Smokey Robinson section, which gives Ashley the chance to do his 'thang'.

(If you look closer it's easy to trace the tracks of his tears, ya know!)


With a quick look at the last number, the whole show is finally coming together. It'll be fab once we can get the last few bits sorted and try the WHOLE thing. We've also been working with some tracks of the original artists, which has been helpful to get the feel of the styles and rifs and 'interpretation' - so now we need to do our versions. I am sure they will be definitive... in one way or another!!

And yet again, to end the day, I got over excited by some of the material in the next show - Destination Dance. Admittedly the 'dance' bit will not be down to us so much (!) but there are some great numbers in it - and a little bit of comedy to boot... watch this space :-)

(Charles and Sarah discussing the finer points of the Motown era...)