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Hey, peeps! How's it going? Wow, things are heating up, and we're already into our final week of vocal rehearsals... which is pretty scary, considering we've still got a fair way to go with the singing! Over the weekend we had two full-company rehearsal sessions, with one more planned for this coming weekend. Ideally we'd like to have more of these full-cast sessions, but alas, scheduling has been tricky - so we'll manage with what we have.

Really, the past five weeks have seen the cast just learning the songs, with some revision. We've now attempted every song in the show except for the Finale, which is really a series of reprised material; so we're this close to covering all 22 musical numbers, whew!! What a feat! Further fine-tuning, development and characterisation will (God willing!) happen over the upcoming weeks, overlapping with the choreography sessions (which have already begun) and the acting/blocking rehearsals. At the same time, I'll be starting rehearsals with the band before we know it... so it looks like an extremely busy couple of months are ahead of us, leading up to opening night on the 2nd of December!

Company rehearsal on Saturday, 2 Oct. This is what happens when we take a lunch break, overeat, and come back all sleepy and bloated. :P

Learning twenty-two original songs can be quite a daunting task, as I'm sure the cast will tell you - especially when some of these songs involve rather intricate overlapping melody lines, where one performer's delivery serves as a cue for another's. It's all about timing, and during initial rehearsals, it can often start off rather garbled. Check out the following rehearsal audio clip! This is one of the more difficult passages in the show, involving the Wise Men and the Shepherds as they make their way to the manger where a mysterious baby has been born, and they realise they can't possibly go there empty-handed. So what should they bring the child?? Not too bad for a first attempt - but rest assured the vocals (and hence the audibility) will smoothen out and get more refined and precise. That's the plan, at least! ;)