Week 7: 
This week is show week therefore it is important that we work very hard in the first two days in order to put on a good performance.

At the beginning of the week we were able to have the pianist playing for us so that we were used to how he plays and so he gets used to the way in which we perform. First we warmed our voices, to make sure that when we sing we do not hurt our voices, we warmed up our voices through singing "la's" and going up the C major scale. I thought this was very useful because I was able to make sure my vocal range was the same as it always is. Firstly, we went through the song "Nothing Like a Dame" which was very useful because we were able to perform with the piano, although everyone really struggled because the pianist decided that we were singing the song in the wrong key and everyone had to learn it a different way in order to make sure it was good enough for him. After quite a few practices and a lot of people trying really hard to adapt to the new requirements, we were able to get it. We then started the "School Song" performance which was quite hard because the piano was very different to the track we were performing and singing to before so people had to make sure they were going in time with the piano when they sang and when they danced. We moved on to "Season's Of Love" next which was really good because there was not many chances to the piano part and everyone performed just as good as we did on the Friday. Finally, we practiced doing the Wilkommen performance which went quite well because we practised with the piano and everyone sang alright, although we needed to practice the dance next lesson because we all struggled to remember quite a lot of the dance. In my opinion, the rehearsing we did today was very useful and helped everyone prepare for the final rehearsals and performances the next day.

Today was performance day and everyone had to be on their top game in order to make everything perfect for the performance in the evening. At the beginning of the lesson we warmed up with a run through the song "Nothing Like a Dame" to make sure everyone was still alright with the change we made the day before. This went really well and everyone was in key to what the pianist wanted but me and another girl decided to sing the lower key because we thought it would have more range as the only people doing the lower key were the boys and there are only two of them. We then did some stretches to make sure that we did not injure ourselves whilst moving around. After that warm we decided to run the whole showcase from start to finish without wearing costumes and stopping in breaks. First was "Wilkommen" which went quite bad to start with because everyone had forgot the moves that we had changed which meant we knew we had to go back over it later on when we had more time. We then did "Nothing Like a dame" which went really well even though the day before it did not go as well. The next performance was the "West Side Story" dance which was not as good as we had done in the past because a lot of people were missing when we revoked at it recently so did not know what they were doing. This caused a lot of problems therefore we knew we had to go back to that in our break later on. Next we decided do the Chicago performance which I was not in, therefore I practiced my "Wilkommen" performance while they did this and everything went really well. Then there was the "Seasons of Love" performance that we needed to do but this went really well and we did not have any problems. We then did our "School Song" Performances which in my opinion were the best performances that we did. When we went back to "Wilkommen" we realised that we needed to have more characterisation in the performances and that we needed to be more in time. After sorting this out, we practiced the "West Side Story" which went really well after we practiced a few times. We then did a full run through of all the performances in costume and in my opinion it was the best run through we had done with everyone staying in character and remembering all the moves in the dances. I think today was very useful and that now we are ready for the main performance.