Teaching the opening song to the cast - 5/1/17

Since we have come to the point where all the scenes have been blocked and they have had an adequate amount of run throughs, we are now focussing on the music; so today, I was asked to teach the opening number to the cast including the harmonies too. Once I had done this, we then started to work on the very last song which we decided to reprise the first song but slowed down, and in a minor key because it needs be a sad and emotional song. We sing the last song relatively quietly with barely any movements to maintain an emotional ore about the atmosphere. When we blocked this, we watched a song from the musical "School of Rock" and watched how the kids don't dance and there is no choreographic movement, the just rock out and feel the music. For the last song, everyone just comes together slowly in the middle and slowly walks off stage and through the middle of the audience, leaving Mother Courage onstage to show that her actions have pushed everyone away from her.