Thursday, November 30, 2006
So its been so long since the first rehearsal. Cant really remember when it was but the producer had certainly made a lasting impression. I cld still remember on the first rehearsal Jeremiah said, " I dun care how many rehearsal we are going to have, cause the school paid me alot of money."
So its been like so long. The practices were crappish most of the time. sang the same few songs repeatly. In a way, its lucky i skipped practices now and then, if not, i wld have hated choir long time ago. Singing the same song over and over again can be sooo boring and irritating. Sometimes i just end up mouthing the words and humming the tune subconsciously. All the comments ended up was, " Beautiful sound but ugly faces. You need to smile alot more." Hmm maybe its our fault but not entirely. First of all, the first song " On Rising Wind " is an extreme easy song. In a way, the high voices go considerably high, and the lower voices go considerably low. So its like when we need to sing low, we need a certain mouth shape for the vowels and space in the mouth, In short, a certain mouth shape to sing beautifully and nice. But smiling makes it so difficult cause you tend to raise the cheekbones and uses different muscles and interferes with the mouth shape( it gets harder with low notes and this song requires super loe notes). Secondly, i cant tink of anything funny or silly when im singing for sone reason. In the end, i have to fake my smile. Seriously, my fake smile is so fake, its not a smile, it looks like some sort of facial cramp thingy. And i get the uncomfortable feeling of faking smiles. Smiles ought to be genuine and true to your heart. Third, smiling non-stop while trying to attain the mouth shape and hitting the notes and singing in tune in a blended voice, not trying to stand out too much if not the microphone will pick us out is hard. Its like controlling volume, speed, musicality, and the uncomfortable feeling is soo tiring. I'll get facial cramps soon...
So today we had a full dress rehearsal. Brought my blazer and new costumes, kinda eager of wearing it yet kind of hesitant ppl will laugh. Had way early dinner at 5. And changed into the new costumes. Gosh, i look soo smart. Looks top class business man rather than high-class waiters( last costume). Started singing on stage, but cause its so hot, they asked us to take our blazers out. Frankly speaking, out shirt is very gay. Purple is a considerably gay colour and a shirt made of purple silk is way too gay. So we were momentarily relieved when we took our blazers out( v hot). But when we were told we were gonna wear like dat on the day of the concert, we objected strongly. But things cant go our way and we gonna look from high-class businessman to almost gay business man, alot worse than high class waiter cause atleast we were high class. Haiz at arnd 10+, i was v hungry didnt sing well jus mnimal movements. And thats for today. Tml will b the same and sat will be the most terrible.
Already we have ideas to sabotage. Pour water on equipments, Weakening the main support beam so that when they turn on the fans, the shaking will cause the whole tent to fall and we will see what they could do in less than 5 hrs .