5: Ups and Downs

Fridays rehearsal went really well. It was the first time we had everyone there and things really started filling out. It was really exciting hearing everyone together for the first time. There were some really good moments harmony wise but there is still just unfortunately not enough time to rehears. Its hard balancing and figuring out what songs we are going to rehearse in our short 2 hour rehearsal period. The group number are super important because of all the strange harmonies we have but then we end up neglecting the solos. Even more so we end up working more with people who don't know their songs well and don't get to spend time with the people who do even though the all deserve equal amounts of time. This is probably the most frustrating part of the whole experience for me.

Sunday's rehearsal did not go a planned. Because it was a backup rehearsal because we didn't want people to not be able to enjoy their memorial day we scheduled a rehearsal for Sunday evening. Gary couldn't be there but the rest of the cast could so we didn't want to have a missed opportunity to have them all together. We got Ben Wu to play for us but he is classically trained and not a rehearsal pianist so it was really difficult for him and the music itself is very difficult. We fortunately were able to find some music tracks for Edges online and we were able to rehearse with those. We finished rehearsal with singing Become, the opening song, against the demo cast's recording. I'm not sure what happened but thats the best they have ever sounded. Hopefully they will be able to duplicate it when we have our first rehearsal at the Upper School on Friday.