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Hello Everybody!
Pfff it feels like it's sunday but we still have 3 days to go before we have a day off.
Normally we're off on monday but there's a make up training on monday so we're off on tuesday this time. Which is quite awfull since Mondays are the only days I really get to spend with Matt... :(
Anyway. The last 3 days were crazy! We started with the show "Sei Hier Gast" or in English: "Be Our Guest" and as you might have guessed: this is our Disney show! It's one of the longest shows we do, which means it's one hour. And most of the time we're all on stage so it's a longgg hour ;-)
It's actually a very nice show though! Especially for me, since the show originated from the big ships and M3 is a soloist-function on those ships, so that means my share is just as big as the other soloists. We've got some great songs. Here's a little tracklist:
Sei hier Gast (Be our Guest)
Schöne und das Biest (Beauty and the Beast)
Vertraue Mir (Trust in me, from Jungle Book) *my solo
Probier's mal mit gemütlichkeit (Bare Necessities, from Jungle Book)
Ich bin der könig (I wanna be like you, from Jungle Book) *my solo
Arbische Nächte (Arabian Nights, from Alladin) *my solo
In Deiner Welt (A Whole New World, from Alladin)
Kleine Freundschaftsdienst (Friend like me, from Alladin)
Bella Notte (Bella Notte, from Lady and the Tramp) *my solo
Ich will keinen mann (I won't say I'm in love, from Hercules)
In sekunden auf Hundert (From Zero to Hero, from Hercules)
Er Lebt in Dir (He lives in you, from the Lion King)
Hakuna Matata (from the Lion King)
Kann es wirklich Liebe sein (Can you feel the love tonight, from the Lion King) *little solopart
Kuss sie doch (Kiss the girl, from Little Mermaid)
Ein Mensch zu sein (Part of your World, from Little Mermaid)
Unter den Meer (Deep in the sea, from Little Mermaid)
Les Poissons (Les Poissons, from Little Mermaid) *my solo
Chim Chim Cheree (from Mary Poppins)
Supercalifragilisticexpialigetisch (Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious from Mary Poppins)
Kommt erst mein Prinz zu mir (Someday my prince will come, from Snow White)
Heigh Ho (from Snow White)
Reprise Sei Hier Gast
Quite a lot of songs as you can see! And this show has a lot of staging and choreography and we learned it all in the past 2 and a half days. Insane! But today we ended with a runthrough and it was actually pretty good! I even managed to get almost all the German out of my mouth. Especially Les Poissons has crazy quick German speaking in in, mixed with some French. And besides singing I'm doing a lot of chopping and hunting fish whilst I'm singing. But it's great fun to do!
Through out the show there is one prop that's used a lot which is a simple feather duster with a stick of about a meter. It's used in the choreo of Sei Hier Gast, and comes back as many other things. In the Lion King it's moving grass, but also the wings of an ostrich, the head of a giraffe, 4 of them put together function a Lion's head, a yellow one is a bird in one song (after which I kill the bird on stage) and they are the chimney cleaners in Chim Chim Cheree. I think it's quite clever and it looks very nice!
Tomorrow we repeat the singing parts of the show because there are loads of harmonies, and now that we learned the steps and everything it's good to go over the singing again because sometimes we had no idea what to sing. One of the hardest songs is actually Heigh Ho, because it's a 5 piece harmony version, and everybody has other notes and lines and when it's done perfect it sounds very good, but we weren't quite there yet today because we had to do all these steps whilst singing it :-P But we'll get there!
Tomorrow and sunday i start with learning some of the scenes of Reise zum Mittelpunkt der Erde because I have to be an old professor in it, and have to speak some German again. I'll tell you more about it once I know what the show is about because I have no idea other than that I sing Fame being this old professor... it can't get much weirder!
Another thing, as you can see in the new photoalbum we had a great Birthday Bash in the 3Freunde bar here in St Pauli (an area of Hamburg). Loads of people from different ships showed up and we had a very nice evening! Can't wait to do it again soon guys! But it might be on the ship, because there's little time for fun ;-) Having said that, we have loads of fun during the rehearsals. All the shows have quite a lot of funny moments so there's always a lot of laughin with or better: 'at' each other.
Matt came home last tuesday from the World Yoga Cup in LA and he became 5th of the world! I'm so proud!!! He had a great time and even saw a bit of Hollywood whilst he was there (which was a little secret because everybody was supposed to be training their yoga postures every day.. but hey, when you're finally in LA you don't want to miss out on the city).
So there's that for this week! I'm very tired so I'm gonna stop writing, like I said, it feels like sunday and the week isn't nearly finished! By now I have learned 7 shows so I have 'only' 4 to go! Oh well, that's nothing considering what we've done already! But uh... I don't think I know all the shows extemely well, because there's never been time to repeat them. But we have the last week for that! It's an amazing thing how much information is willing to go into our tiny heads, although it's really pushing it.
One of the most used sentences in our rehearsals the last couple of days is: Take the shame. It started when Jannike and I discussed our Love for the Catherine Tate sketches, and we started saying Take the Shame every possible moment. But because in every rehearsal there's always something that goes wrong, it's a very usefull phrase and it can be used almost every minute! I wonder how long it's gonna be funny though! But for now... Take the shame honey! :-P
Have a nice evening everybody! I'm gonna prepare for tomorrow! (that means, sitting on the couch and drink a coffee with some chocolat, it's the best way to relax)
AHOY!
- comments
Jannike Dennis, it is already not funny anymore. So take the shame for making such a stupid joke!
Dennis Wow, you're fast a again stalker. So I guess the one who should really be taking the shame here is you love... But... you knoww right? It's on 4, not on 5!