Head's Newsletter 14 July 2022

TIFFIN GLEE CLUB

Based on the popular 2000s show, Glee is an all singing, all dancing group competition and over the past few years the Jack Petchey Foundation have run a national Glee competition featuring many schools and performing arts academies. For the first time in the School's history and after months of rehearsals with the newly formed club, the Tiffin Glee club were ready to perform and take part in a workshop for the competition. On Thursday 30th of June, one of the Jack Petchey representatives came in and watched the club's performance of Jonathan Larson's song '30/90' from the musical Tick, tick ...boom - recently popularised by the Lin - Manuel Miranda film adaptation on Netflix. Trousers folded up and braces attached, we were ready! After the initial performance lots of work was done on the song, altering the tempo and dynamics of the vocals. We also worked on variation in rhythm and following it, as well as improving the vocals with the choreography. This was great fun and the group thoroughly enjoyed it, throwing themselves at every activity wholeheartedly. After the workshop we performed the piece one more time. This would be the audition that counted towards advancing to the next round of the competition. Featuring solos from different members of the group as well as unison singing and group dancing parts, the piece overall was a success with clear improvement made from the first performance which was already brilliant!

An email was received just the next day by Mrs. Brittain, Head of Dance and the Glee club, confirming that we were 1 of the schools that had made it through to the next round of workshops. Excellent, time to finish the set list for Regionals!