Today we continued our work on our Musical Theater character placement! With this placement, we take parts of our baseline placement to extremes in order to sound more musical theater, and to cater our sound and performance to that of a musical theater song with a strong or subtle character performing it. We use acting techniques with this placement as we treat the song more like a monologue - mapping out how our character would act and/or react to words they are singing (if they're supposed to be happy, spastic, excited, sad, angry). We analyze the way the character should be played - adjust our talking voice accordingly - mapping out our song the same way we would a scene or monologue, with high points and low points.
We then, start to incorporate this new character-like speaking into our song by first, completely talking it out - making sure the energy and voice inflections are what they need to be in order for the character to shine through while we're singing. Then, we slowly elongate certain words and give our song a slightly more melodic feel.
With a song as character driven as "Kiss the girl" - we get to get into our really fun goofy character voice inflections, and make the song more about being goofy and having fun with the way we sing it rather than high notes or big stylistic choices! Hannah is doing awesome at it!!!