William Burrows – C Block - AS Performing Arts – 24/11/2009
All That Jazz Workshop
Focus of the Workshop: To identify the Key Skills to perform the song “All That Jazz” from Chicago
Introduction
The main idea of the workshop was to identify and develop the skills required the song “All That Jazz”. First of all we watched the cast of Chicago performing All That Jazz on Broadway. This was to show us how the professionals performed it and to see the professional attitude to performing in general. After this the lesson was split into 2 parts, the first of which we were broken up into gender groups and placed on opposite sides of the room. We then split up the song into the 3 stanzas and then we sang the song alternatively. The song was cleverly thought out so the lads didn’t have to sing lines like “I want to rouge my knees and pull my stockings down” because in general males would not do this action. We then put all this together, and tried it with both genders performing together, and we then attempted this by taking words away to make lyrics stick. After we deemed this to be successful we began to add simple dance steps, however I would say they weren’t really dance moves because dance moves are more complicated, so I will classify this as movement. We then performed this at the end of the lesson fully. Because we focused on singing and dancing, I would say this was more of a musical theatre based lesson.