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Monday 14 June 2021

I PEEEL YOU JOHANNNNAAAAAA ~ Musical Theatre

What is the song you have chosen to perform?: I've decided to choose the song 'Johanna' from the movie Sweeney Todd.

Why did you choose this material?: I've always liked Sweeney Todd and I love romance stories so I thought it would be a cool song to sing, plus I like that scene.

Who wrote and performed the piece?: Stephen Sondheim wrote the song and Jamie Cambell Bower sang it.

What is the song about?: About this boy that fell in love with this beautiful blonde girl from the apartment building, and he sings about stealing her from the Judge that's keeping her away from people.

What is happening in the story at the time of your piece?: This teenage boy is attracted by this beautiful blonde yellow-haired girl named Johanna who lives in a very high building with this evil guy named 'Judge Turpin', he spots this girl from a window from her bedroom and wants to talk to her and hang out with her. He slowly finds out that Judge Turpin locked her in the room to keep her away from the world so every day Anthony walks past the building, trying to figure out ways to save her and steal her from the judge.

What will be challenging about your piece: I have to sing from low to high in some bits because sometimes I sing lower to his level ( because I'm playing a guy, and I'm not a guy in real life so I don't have that much of a deep voice). Another challenge would have to be to keep practising to get it right but that's okay , I know I'll get there in the end :)
Anthony and Johanna by Limitlessdreams on DeviantArt

Wednesday 10 March 2021

MusHACK (AKA Music)

Backstreets Boys group song 

Who's in the group?: Nadia, Sam, Bre (Brianna), and Me

What each person is doing?: Lows, Normal, Highs, and normal ( in name order at the previous question)

What song, genre?: "I want it that way", Pop

What part are we working on first?: How we first came up to do this song is simply because we were messing around singing karaoke tracks. Originally we were going to sing Lovely by Billie Eilish and Khalid ( that's now our plan B) but since 'I want it that way' has different singing parts to equally divide between 4 we chose that. So the first 4 weeks we were slowly singing parts and collectively improving it while we sing. We went from soundtrack to piano, now we are just singing it and perfecting it.

What is the biggest challenge?: I guess for me it would be timing and how to stay in key and learn to make my voice soft but loud. ( but not too soft)