Today we continued our work on performance to prepare for our Fall concert! Tag has such great actions and absolutely loves performing these songs - so, as we continue to work on them, we are working to move "I just can't wait to be king" to a place vocally and performance wise, that is as comfortable for him as "Summer". He said to me "I think i do summer the best" - because he has practiced it more, had more specific choreography to do, and worked on it in front of live audiences til he was sick of it.
Our plan as we move forward - is to have all of these comfortable aspects for him in all of his songs that he's going to perform!
We worked on a few specific things for him to do as far as choreography so that he can practice the same steps over and over, have added entering and exiting the stage, and microphone technique.
Forward placement/ mix voice
In both songs we are working on, there are a few notes that are just outside of Tag's comfortable belt range (or big chest voice), so we are working on extending his range in our vocalization exercises and continuing our work on Tag's mix voice (the range between his chest voice and falsetto). We are working to make these high, long notes easier for him to hit and easier for him to sustain. He is doing so great!!
Staying in character
We also continued our work on our musical theater performance technique. We are working hard to make sure we stay in character the whole song - complete with smiling, facial expressions, actions, and not "dying" or losing energy between phrases or notes!