4. Ensemble Pieces - The Book of Mormon and Matilda the Musical
Along with our assignment of choosing two solo songs we had to partake in two group pieces. This started at the beginning of the unit, we took part in vocal warm ups and we listened to the songs that were chosen together. The first song is 'Hello' from The Book of Mormon, this song looks at themes of religion in a very comedic way, it was chosen due these themes that it holds and because of my class being very light-hearted and a comedic bunch! The second song that was chosen was 'You will be found' from Dear Evan Hansen, this song like all Dear Evan Hansen songs holds themes of loneliness, feeling hopelessness for people who are struggling, it is a big contrast to our first song as it brings a strong message with it however, we eventually changed this song for something more fitting as a class. We chose 'Revolting Children' from Matilda The Musical, this song has a lot of choreography which we thought would be better to sing with as well. The song is about s...