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ChoreographyI've got stuck with choreographing a medley of broadway peices, and one of them happens to be "Do You Hear the People Sing?". We're performing it as a choir of about 60, but I can cut some people and put them in other numbers if necessary...though from what I've seen on youtube there are usually a lot of people onstage for this number. I've just never seen the show and I have no clue what sort of thing to do.
Does anyone have any suggestions, any comments that could help me?
I am definately not a choreographer. 
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wtfchuck
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If you want to follow what they do in the West End version, (I've not seen it live but i've seen plenty of videos) they get in a sort of triangular formation with Valjean at the front and the other main characters just behind him. In this position everyone just does a box-step sort of thing for the whole song.
I'll try and find you a video.
P.S. There's always a red flag being waved across the top of everyone, i think it's by Gavroche but i might be completely wrong.
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jackissensational
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I would start with learning to spell it correctly.
They do get in this triangle formation, all of them doing this kinda marching step, with Cosette and Marius off the side.
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oh jeez. did I spell coreography wrong? I can't spell. Sorry.
Anyways, those sound managable. Thanks for the advice.
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Just looked it up. Choreography. Got it.
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Orestes Fasting
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Um, I think the two previous commenters were thinking of One Day More...
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MlleTholomy�s
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The general Broadway (and probably London) formation with Enjolras on top of a table, and all the amis around him?
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jackissensational
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| Orestes Fasting wrote: | | Um, I think the two previous commenters were thinking of One Day More... |
You're right! How stupid of me! In defense, I was just kind of building off of what Charley had said. Right? *nervous laugh*
FAIL.
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lesmisloony
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They run around. There's often a cart involved. Enj usually rides it. More people join. They run around some more.
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Moci
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| lesmisloony wrote: | | They run around. There's often a cart involved. Enj usually rides it. More people join. They run around some more. |
This came up in 'posts since your last visit' without any contexts. I'm afraid to say that I thought that it was a new form of slash. Enjolras/Runaway Cart featuring Les Amis. 
And is this for a "show choir"? Because can someone explain to me why choirs can't just sing anymore without an often horrendously inappropriate dance routine? I'm not trying to be controversial or anything, but I don't think that we have them to the same extent in Britain and they've always puzzled me when I've seen clips on youtube.
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Quique
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"Do You Hear the People Sing" as a dance? LOL.
Anyway, here's the way it's typically blocked...
Enjolras standing on a table with the students around him. Turntable turns, barricade thingo goes back into the wings as they recruit two women pulling a cart. Enjolras and Gavroche hop on cart, start twirling a red flag around, everyone follows them around the turntable twice, then they disappear stage left as the lights fade.
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| Moci wrote: |
And is this for a "show choir"? Because can someone explain to me why choirs can't just sing anymore without an often horrendously inappropriate dance routine? I'm not trying to be controversial or anything, but I don't think that we have them to the same extent in Britain and they've always puzzled me when I've seen clips on youtube. |
This is just for my regular school concert choir. At the end of the season, we do this thing called fine arts festival, where we do some sort of medley with some minimal dancing and costumes. It's just sort of something fun to end the school year.
But, I understand your rant.
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lesmisloony
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When I was in high school we did a musical revue every spring, and for some godawful reason every song had to have specific choreography instead of, you know, direction. I had a solo with Matchmaker, doing Tzeitel's part, and they made me do a ridiculous dance instead of letting me, you know, harrass my sisters and all that. It was miserable and it looked horrible. And I'm a terrible dancer.
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So we sort of started working it out today and we end up marching up the auditorium stairs, like surrounding the audience, during the previous song (Sun and Moon) and so we spend a verse of this song doing some marching down the stairs and some hand motions and then we get on stage and march and then make some lines and such. Then I get a lot of time taken up by a big finale number type deal, because it's the last song in the medley.
So, thanks for everyone's help, and I think I've finally got something worked out.
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Fantine
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| Moci wrote: | | lesmisloony wrote: | | They run around. There's often a cart involved. Enj usually rides it. More people join. They run around some more. |
This came up in 'posts since your last visit' without any contexts. I'm afraid to say that I thought that it was a new form of slash. Enjolras/Runaway Cart featuring Les Amis. |
I kinda like that 
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musical4eva
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| Moci wrote: |
And is this for a "show choir"? Because can someone explain to me why choirs can't just sing anymore without an often horrendously inappropriate dance routine? I'm not trying to be controversial or anything, but I don't think that we have them to the same extent in Britain and they've always puzzled me when I've seen clips on youtube. |
Agreed. I'm in a school choir that has always really stuck to traditional/MT songs NEVER any movement apart from the occasional click etc but now its being run by someone else and we have to dance to the Shoop Shoop song! It's awful! Just standing and singing all the way! Oh and this is in Plymouth UK.
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