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Today we had access to the backing tracks that we will use in the actual production. We spent the lesson singing through everything that we had set to the backing tracks. Considering we had not used the backing tracks before I think it went quite well and with practice it will sound good. The main thing we need to do is work on the timing with the backing tracks which will come with time.

We did I'll cover you reprise for the end of the lesson which we hadn't sung through before. Taking this into consideration it went well and we managed to sing the whole song through a couple of times and set it, with some very simple staging. So are main thing to work on now is just getting everything polished with the backing tracks and finishing off things we haven't yet done.

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This week we have been working on the song Happy New Year B. We weren't particularly familiar with the song so at the start it was slow to get started but as we went through it, it became easier to stage and sing. It is a very bitty song in the way that there is a lot of over lapping speech and vocal which is complicated to do unless everyone is confident with the song. After we had roughly set the song we decided to move on as we could not perfect it until we are all more familiar with the song. We decided to make a note of everything we had left to do which actually was not too much as we had blocked a lot of the show already. For the remainder of this lesson we went through some of our separate scenes, so Dan Smith and I went through our Mr and Mrs Jefferson script.