Carl Dean is trying to kill us all! ...Okay, not really, but he definitely created one exhausting number!
The only number on the schedule for today was for Carl to choreograph "Fatherhood Blues." First off, Carl had a different take on the staging, so all this called for was us reversing what we had blocked last night, which was easy. We spent the rest of the day staging the song. This is probably one of the hardest dances I've done with Carl as choreographer. It's very lyric-driven and has a lot of '80s and '90s influences; he even managed to work in some Michael Jackson in there! It all culminates in a unified, boy-band finish.
This will be a HUGE challenge for me, because all of my choreography is punk rock-based, complete with head-banging and pulsating. It's so different from the way I'm used to dancing. I have to loosen up or this will be way harder than it has to be.
I did make a breakthrough in one way, though. After singing the song and running the dance over and over again, I finally found the vocal sound that Marcus is looking for. It's a kind of rock growl, less smooth and more gritty. I have to figure out how to do that on command.
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