New Rep Studio- Stage Combat & read/sing through

Hey everyone,

Today we had a woman named Serah Rose come in and do a stage combat class. We learned how to do hair-pulls, slaps, punches and how to react to being shot. It was really fun!!! Serah Rose taught us how to position ourselves so it looked realistic from the audience and we didn't kill each other. After we learned the moves, we made scenes with partners that included the moves we learned and they were hysterically funny. After stage combat, we broke for lunch and when we returned we did a read/sing through of the play which means we sang all of the songs and read all of the lines in chronological order. I think it surprised us all how well it went. We had a great time going through everything. We had a very mixed range of emotions. We laughed when Dan, the assistant director, had to read the part of Bamatobois, a potential "customer" of Fantine, because a girl was absent and we cried when Emily (aka jean Valjean) sang (she has incredible passion for the music). Even though we stumbled through a bunch of the music, it was still awesome. We helped each other out if one of us forgot the key of the song accidentally or missed their cue and I know this sounds extremely corny but we kind of built a support system for each other.

That's all for today-more later!
-Talia