Rent

Today we were lucky enough to have Lorna in the lesson who is playing Maureen so we took the opportunity to put her into 'Tango Maureen', the opening 'Rent' and 'La Vie Boheme'. This took quite a while as we had to teach her all of it but it was also beneficial to us as anyone that was struggling was able to re-learn anything the needed to.

We split off to do separate things today so Tom and I went off to set 'Another Day' together. We decided that we would use the table that mostly features in the loft as Roger seems to spend a lot of time around it and sitting on it, also we thought it would be interesting to use. The song starts with Mimi kissing Roger and then Roger continually fighting with his feelings, not knowing whether to give in to Mimi or not. We used the table to sit on and move around trying to highlight this fight internally and physically with Roger and Mimi, with some intimate simple movement when Mimi is singing soothingly to Roger and then harsh sudden movements when Roger gets angry. We need some more time to work on the end of this but I think it is looking good so far and will be interesting for the audience to watch without it being a dance.