Our House Rehearsal

Scenes in first show Act 2


The first scene I'm in for act 2 is Wings of a Dove. In the first show I was in the dance but in this show I'm Mr Pressman. I walk on from down stage left mid song and have short  conversation with Joe and tell him I need a developer in North London and give him my card and walk of upstage left.


This scene I walk on centre stage left to join Kath. I tell her how she's the last one on the street who hasn't sold her house to my company yet and we have a heated discussion that ends with her storming off. I then shout my last line after her and walk off upstage right taking no notice of Joe sitting there.


The next scene was the one I found the hardest to learn. I'm Mr Pressman and Joe sees me twice, one after the other. First he comes in as bad Joe. In this one I'm nice to him, ask him to help me with a problem I'm having. The problem turns out to be his mum. He agrees to help me and I tell him about Danny (Reecey) I tell him "He's our personal fireman". Before he leave I put my arm around him and tell him if he does this we'll be partners. As he goes to leave I ask him if theres any relation to him and 'Casey street', He says no and leaves. When he comes back into my office, he's now good Joe. Before he comes in, I'm on the phone with my wife making plans. Mr Pressman has no intrest in good Joe. When I call him in I call him 'Cosey' instead of Casey. Then mid conversation I start singing the reprise of 'My Girl' and talk about how my wife's mad at me. Joe ad libs underneath this and starts telling me I'm having a sing-song during a meeting. My last line of the song mentions me sleeping with my 19 year old receptionist. He calls me a dirty bugger the stands up and points at me. I shout at him, calling my security in. They drag Joe off while I call Danny to sort out Joes' Mums.


I then have a line with Joe during NW5. Joe walks on first and I follow. He tells me about how he wants to do a different project and I tell him to call Danny because there's nothing else for him to do. I then had the quickest change because I have the final chorus of NW5 to change and be ready to be a lawyer.


My next scene I was a lawyer. I picked up this role because someone got ill and no one else could do it. This is a reprise of Embarrassment. Me, Amber and Bryleah play middle level lawyers. We discussed that we wanted to add our own character and flare to them so we decided to be quite girly, stuck up and a little bit flirty. We turn our back on Joe then get closer to him when we're telling him to go to the legal aid place.


The next scene I'm in is the market scene. I walk on pushing a trolley for Joe to jump on as he starts singing the song. I push him across the stage to centre stage right. I take on Joes suit jacket and hung it on  a rack centre stage for when Joe changes behind the umbrellas. I then walk to my table with Luke and Bryleah. Each table has a different line to sing when we're selling. The first group go forward singing about incense; the second signs about offensive t-shirts. The next group sings about bath soaps. The last group is my group and we walk forward signing about cannabis. We then go back to our table and each group has a different way to travel to our positions. My trio went in cannon; Bryleah went first doing a walkover, then I done a cartwheel and look done a leap. We then done a short phrase Kat choreographed, while singing the chorus. After that we wander to different stalls to get umbrellas. We then get into three lines and do a short section with umbrellas that we took and adapted from the original production. The last part of the song we cover Joe with umbrellas while he changes in the suit jacket to be bad Joe. Once he's change we disperse and I take the good joe clothing off stage and everyone slowly brings off all the market stalls. We then wander round on stage singing the chorus. When there's a key change we've got to react to the house fire. I then go off stage.

The last scene I'm in is the finale. We mingle in the background until Sarah asks for a photograph. Me and Fran slide into the from and sit in front of Joe and Sarah on the floor while theyre standing. We all pull three different poses and the ligt flashes every time we change position. After Joes scene with Dad we all get up and start singing the Our House finale number. We dance around together until it gets to the counter melody of people singing our house and house of fun. We then get into two circles around Joe and Sarah and each circle runs in the opposite direction. This is meant to represent going back in time to Joes 16th birthday because Joe and Sarah change into their school uniform from the first scene. Everyone runs off stage and Joe and Sarah say their last lines and we finish the song from off stage. Everyone then comes back for bows.