On March 5th, I returned to my old high school to observe the high school drama club rehearsal of their upcoming production of Beauty and the Beast. During my time there, I learned how a usual rehearsal is like. In this essay I’ll tell what happens during a rehearsal. For example, what happens onstage and backstage. The last part I’ll tell you about is what do the member’s do when they don’t have anything to do, and before rehearsal. Now I’ll tell you about my observations ,when I watched the drama club rehearsal.
When I arrived at the rehearsal, some of the members were playing a game on the stage called knee tag. Even though I didn’t see a lot of it, the people playing must have been having a ball. The people who weren’t playing, were just talking about anything, or getting ready to sing that night. When the drama club director Mr.Brejcha got to the rehearsal he asked everyone to meet on the stage on news and upcoming information. After Mr. Brejcha gave new news to the member’s they returned back stage to practice their scales and get in tune. This is what I saw first when I obersved the drama before everything got more important.
During my time backstage, I saw the member’s do two sections from the show . The first song they went through was the song belle; this is when belle goes through the village. As I listened to the song for the few times, they sounded better each time. Each time the song ended, Mr. Brejcha told what was good , and bad in the singing. After the ensemble member’s went back onstage to work with the other drama club director. Even though during the second was practice, I could understand the emotions between the characters when they sang to each other. This is what I observed when I was backstage.
When I returned to the auditorium, I saw the remaining member’s getting ready to go through the mob scene in act two. The second Director was commanding the people to the beginning point of the scene and the song. Before she told them to remember their spot for the show. She told to act terrified of what they are showed by one of the villagers and what they are saying. Some of the first attempts were weak was what the second director didn’t want them to do. Later on the members improved and acted more scared them they were before they began. I felt the emotions of how they felt, and they had the feeling of the sinister scene. At the first they were some people goofing around , but the director got a little upset and told them to stop it. In a couple minutes the chorography came in, the movement the beat of their feet was in tune. The last part they put everything together and did the singing , and the lines in the script. I saw one of menbers drawing pictures that look the stain glass windows in the prologue from the movies. If they are for the show, they going to be bigger and will be showed at the beginning of act 1. This is what I saw when member’s practiced a scene on the stag
There are many reasons to be member of any high school drama club. The first main cause is committed to the production and the directors. Another cause is helping other members who needed the extra with lines or singing. A small but still important is standing up for each other during practice. One I think that is at the top for drama club member’s is being on time for rehearsal . I think that they should listen to the directors whenever they tell them to work on for opening night. Now one they always do , but sometimes it happens is misbehaving. There are many different people that make up the drama club. For example most of them are in mixed chorus, concert choir, or band. They all still have some connection with the preforming arts outside drama club. This what drama club member must do ,and what type of people are in drama club.
Now I’ve given you the full detail of what I observed a drama club rehearsal. I told you about what happens onstage , back stage, and before practice starts. Another part was what does it to be a member of any drama club ,and who makes up the drama club. These were my observation when I watched a drama club rehearsal.
This is a good start. You have a good paragraph framework here and some details that you observed.
ReplyDeleteIn revision, though, I think you could add some more details to show the subculture more clearly. First, you cold describe the place, what the stage looks like during rehearsal and wherever it is that people sit or stand. You don't really show us any specific students, what some particular people look like or what they do or say. (I like the detail about people playing knee tag--could you show more little scenes like that? What are people doing when they're not on stage?) Did you write down any dialogue, things people said? That would also help make this scene more clear for the reader.
I like your impulse near the end to write about the values of the drama club, things like "standing up for each other during practice." But I'd also like to see more specifically what you mean by values like this. How do you know these things? What did you see or hear that made you believe that these are things important to drama club members?
One minor point: I don't think you need to sum up each paragraph. (I'd leave out lines like "This is what I saw when ..." at the end of paragraphs--you don't need them.)
Let me know if you have any questions--I'm looking forward to seeing the next draft of this!