{"id":2197503,"date":"2025-12-13T09:03:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T09:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2197503"},"modified":"2025-12-13T09:03:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T09:03:45","slug":"the-chicago-cast-tackles-full-score-during-intense-first-weeks-the-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-chicago-cast-tackles-full-score-during-intense-first-weeks-the-mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cChicago\u201d cast tackles full score during intense first weeks \u2013 The Mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"

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    Theatre teacher and director, Mr. Baldrige, plays piano as the cast learns the music. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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    Attentive Ears <\/b> (L to R) Ami Singer, Olivia Klipstine, Maddy Mills, Layla Green and Lucy Tait pay attention as music is being taught<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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    Official Score <\/b> Amelia Probst the camera her copy of the official script for the show, full of annotations for her role <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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    Even More Music <\/b> A student shows their blank copy of the music for the show<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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    Loving the Show! <\/b> Dilan Patton, casted as Amos Heart, shows some love to the camera in-between learning music<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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    Excited feet scurry into room 303, drop their backpacks off in the white shelves, grab a seat in the semi-circle chair formation in the center of the room and crack open their brand-new, gold-lettered \u201cChicago\u201d scripts for their first day of rehearsal. Whether they read music or not, the new Chicago cast is ready to learn every single song in the show in just the first two weeks of rehearsal.<\/p>\n

    Yes, every single song.<\/p>\n

    \u201cIt\u2019s been actually super productive and educational,\u201d Junior Maddy Mills said at the end of her first week playing Roxie Hart, one of the leads in the show. \u201cIt\u2019s so cool to see how the end product of the finished show comes from these few weeks just starting with the music, but things are going together.\u201d<\/p>\n

    They began their two weeks of intense music training with learning the opening number, \u201cAll That Jazz,\u201d a sultry and mysterious beginning to the show that begins with only a simple piano track and builds to a flashy, belt-y track, detailing the desirable life of a vaudeville star, Velma Kelly and her wannabe, Roxie Hart.<\/p>\n

    The story of Chicago has been in the mainstream for years now. The musical was adapted into a motion picture in 2002, and promptly won six Oscars the following year, including Best Picture. It\u2019s often regarded as one of the best movie-musicals of all time, and brought the dance style of fosse and the music of Kander and Ebb to screens around the globe.<\/p>\n

    Lots of songs in Chicago are recognizable hits, but not just because it\u2019s an Oscar-winning movie.<\/p>\n

    On platforms like TikTok, the song \u201cWe Both Reached For The Gun\u201d is a popular song to use in character edits, and that same song was used in the cast\u2019s dance call. Having recognizable music to go off of was helpful for the cast in learning the dynamics and structure of the score.<\/p>\n

    \u201cI was relying a lot on hearing the music from TikTok, not the actual tracks,\u201d Mills said during rehearsal. \u201cSo to break down the music was very useful and very much necessary because it helped with getting in touch of what the song was planned out to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

    As the cast went along rehearsing, they learned more numbers, like the famous female-empowerment ballad \u201cCell Block Tango,\u201d a fierce song blaming the men for the way they treated the women in their lives, and the emotional \u201cMister Cellophane\u201d, detailing Amos Hart\u2019s life in the shadows.<\/p>\n

    There\u2019s always more to come, as next week the cast and crew will get together and do a \u201cread through\u201d of the entire show, speaking the entire script out loud from top to bottom, including the songs, to create the first steps of the cast\u2019s chemistry and to hear the full story out loud for the first time.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

    \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

    \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source vnhsmirror.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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