Bethany Raine

Character history Ariel is the youngest of King Triton's seven daughters. Ariel has a fascination with the world of humans, despite contact being forbidden by her father, who hates humans. In the beginning, Ariel is salvaging human items and takes them to scuttle for identification. Ariel keeps them in her secret grotto as a part of her collection, from books to other regular objects which is where she sings "Part of Your World. During a storm, Ariel rescues Prince Eric and brings him to shore where she falls in love with him and dreams to be human. Why I have chosen this song I have chosen this song since it has a lot of emotions going through it and I have to adapt to an American accent for this so it can be different from my other songs. I love how free Ariel is when singing this song so I wanted to have the same energy which is different from the others since they are just a number where you stand in one place and it can show how excited she is when she starts to talk abou...

  Character History When Hamilton argues with Samuel Seabury, King George III sings about how he will win the war and keep America as a colony in "You'll Be Back". You can feel his power when he doesn't move from his spot and gets everyone to rush around for him which is a total contrast from the other songs before this since they have a rap theme to them, it's almost like America is making King George III a joke including the feminine touches and bratty attitude. After America won the war, King George III became sad and angry, singing about how they cheated with the French and Spain by their side, and asking "What Comes Next". After George Washington steps down as president he questions who comes after him after one of his servants tells him it is John Adams he sings how their government is doomed and wishes them luck. When Burr, Jefferson and Madison distribute copies of the Renolds Pamphlet, completely ruining Hamilton's reputation, King George ca...

  Character History Kim ran away from a small village in Vietnam around 1958, three years after the war started. At age 13, she was betrothed to her cousin Thuy, to which she confessed to not loving him. During the war, Kim's family was killed by a bomb during a raid and as she ran through the rice fields she saw their bodies, this event affected Kim and it changed her mindset that she would rather die than look back again. Kim finally finds a job as a bargirl at a nightclub in Saigon named 'Dreamland' where she meets The Engineer, catering to the American GIs stationed in the city.  On Kim's first night at Dreamland, the other girls laugh and mock her for being innocent and the patrons seem turned off by her naive figure except for a young sergeant named Chris Scott, which his friend John notices. As the night goes on Chris grows more fond of Kim after learning she's not like the other girls he's seen, Which leads to Chris asking Kim to move to America with him...

  11 Reasons/ developing skills For my final part in the blogs of my developing and looking further into my future goals and dreams i need to evaluate what has happened in the past year to help me become a better performer. On Thursday 9th June i performed 11 reason which was a musical that we had wrote out self's and also had the choreography our self's, which as a result made me develop multiple skills including creating ensemble numbers with a variety of dance styles. As for trying to develop my muscle memory and flexibility it had it's ups and downs for example, there where some days i wouldn't have time or it would of effected my rehearsal time to help others, i could of avoided it by stretching in my own time or come early into college to use the studios provided or i could of done it at home and i should of took before and after photos to show my improvement in certain tasks. Whereas, for my muscle memory that had developed over time because for the muscle and...

  The musical As the musicals is in two weeks i have took my role as choreographer more seriously because we needed more ensemble numbers in the musical. So the three routines where for broken wing, imagine place and monsters all created by my peers who are also in the musical. As for the three routines some are a lot different styles of dance and have a different story for each. For some rehearsals we workshopped ideas and looked at physical theatre companies and different musical theatre productions including the prom. It was a challenge for me to do different styles because i focus most on contemporary style dance but it also improves my dance styles more and i can expand more in the future. what i improved on: I focus more on everyone else and who needs help in the different areas of the routines. I lead warm ups with the other choreographers. I confidently taught my peers choreography.  Charity showcase To support the Ukraine war i took part in a showcase to raise money f...

Performance day for speakeasy  As in my march milestone last month i mentioned about doing rehearsals for the speakeasy performance at the Firestation. I had a tech rehearsal on the Thursday and Robbie who was the main director for the show had us rehearse in the space then placed us where it was best then we worked through dance to dance so we know when do go through to start the dance. Then on the Friday we had to be there by six to have a talk and run through it once then we performed at 7:30. What went well during the performance: I had use good character while doing the different emotions of both the routines. I had remembered both routines including the partner parts and characterisation within the scene. what did i need to improve on in the performance: I needed to keep looking up at times during the routine. I needed to keep up the energy through out the performance.   Musical rehearsals started In the beginning of April i had started to create ensemble routines for th...

  Speakeasy  For march i had the privilege to work with southpaw dance company in the performance "speakeasy" which was based in the 1920's. The scenes i was in was when the singer with her backing people met the main antagonist for the first time which was slow and more waltz pace where as the second routine was more fast paced and more chaotic.  The rehearsal process went as followed: we had a talk about what the show was based on then we started to learn the style "swing" which was common in the 20's to dance with or without partners. we got taught the routine by Robbie and Alicia and recorded it both the solo part and the partner work and then we watched them back and workshopped ideas to try and improve the performance to make it more ready for the 8th April. The week after we did a dress rehearsal and did the routine to make sure that the costumes were ok for the performance, then we went to the fire station the day before the performance to record mat...

My long term goal My long-term goal is to work for Disney in the parades or perform to children in holiday parks, to help me begin my journey I will need 5 important skills and why I would need them: use of facial expressions- to show that I would enjoy working for them and to make people enjoy there holiday more. a lot of muscle memory- I would have to learn multiple routines and stand in if anyone wasn't in for that day. learning lines- I would need to learn multiple scripts for different shows. confidence in singing and dancing- I would need to build up my breathe control while performing and singing at the same time because I would need to perform and not sound out of breath. work on acting skills- for this type of job I would need to having good acting skills because of the different shows needed. To improve my skills for the end of April or May I would need to: go into a studio and rehearse monologues in different styles. try singing different songs to find a range to fit my ...

Hello, my names Bethany Raine and i'll be writing about my musical theatre journey firstly i'll talk about opportunities and goals for me as a musical theatre performer. The main opportunities for me is to become a musical theatre performer is that I could work on West End shows or even Broadway or going to HND/ university level degree to expand my learning in musical theatre, but there's many different ways that you can find different kind of opportunities for example you could hold workshops or work at a dance convention for example "Can You Dance?" or "move it", to help my goals in the future I would go to dance city in Newcastle for multiple Disneyland parade auditions, for example I would involve myself in going to musical theatre workshops all over the country and having to build up enough stamina for the parades, but to also have to cope being in big costumes and having to adapt myself to any temperature when the parade is in different seasons. Jo...

As one of my performances for this year I performed "Yerma" by Simon Stone it shows a couple going through struggles of having children while performed glass box to show there empty house but also can show a festival and a wedding reception. I got given a task by making a performance with my peers about what I thought Yerma was about, as a result I and my peers did a dance about relationship abuse and also acting where one person would speak a monologue but as different people and the others would dance as the partner but around the person saying there lines. The rehearsal process was difficult at times because of some people being off and because of the routine being as hard as the subject matter of relationship abuse we had to research how it affects people mentally and how other people showed it through the expression of dance.  What went well   i felt we stayed in character throughout the performance  fantastic use of facial expressions  aspects of acting and dan...

  With being in college for two years i have picked up many sills but i found out my areas of improvement in acting and dancing but in cutting music or creating a showreel. In this table is showing my strengths and areas of improvement as a performer. My strengths : My areas of improvement :

  As one of my recently choreographed challenged performances about "Climate Change", this was done as a ensemble. This piece was inspiring and very in the moment due to everyone talking and trying to change way of life for the environment we live in. It is a very serious and emotional piece to get the point across, that we must act now and save the planet. As we were told what physical theatre was all about, we learnt about many practitioners for example frantic assembly and verbatim.  What went well worked well as a group everyone was in sync on rosas danse rosas we all portrayed emotional very well to get the message across good use of props  strong dance performance  we performed the high intensity part of the performance very well great at giving ideas forward and putting them to practice  What didn't go so well we would debate constantly and got in the way of rehearsals  never came in for extra practice , i felt it could have been performed better...

  In December i performed the comical "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett, in this play it's about two clowns Vladimir and Estragon who are waiting for a person called Godot who doesn't arrive. In this performance we had to work in pairs but before all of that i got taught the tree different types tragic, pathetic and simple. As me and my partner got our script we sectioned the script into three to help us with the learning process and to see where the slapstick routine would feel comfortable and tidy. what went well : understood the character Estragon I felt more confident in my acting compared to Yerma at the beginning of the year with it being the hardest and longest script i picked it up quicker and did further research on my characters background I understood what type of comedy but also when and where is was and wasn't funny sometimes me and my partner forgot our lines so when we did, we made up a backup in case it was to happen on stage I enjoyed the scri...