“Summer lovin’ had me a blast…”
Rehearsals are coming along surprisingly well! Today, we finished blocking “Summer Nights”. It is…damn sexy hella awesome. And I’m not even kidding! I was very skeptical when we first began working on the song. Blasko choreographed everything for the girls and told the guys to ‘freestyle’ the whole song. Needless to say, that didn’t work out too well. The girls were spinning ad jumping and skipping and the guys were…snapping. Snapping like there was no tomorrow. We were beginning to get some stuff down, but it wasn’t really working. You know? It seemed okay, but it wasn’t really right. It’s hard to explain.
Well, today, she started to give us a LOT more direction. She gave us specific choreography for each verse, and it actually looks really good! Not only that, but it sounds awesome, too! We have the majority of the Summer Nights scene blocked, and we have Act I, Scene 7 blocked (with the exception of the songs). The fighting squences look very funny…Alex is a good sport. :)
Overall, this is beginning to turn out a lot better than I had expected. I know that I was kind of whiny initially, but I’m glad that everybody works so well and that this show is going so well!