Melpomene
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I feel really, REALLY stupid, BUT...Deleted due to my embarrassment. Thanks, guys.
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music is my life!!!
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I think this is the right place  maybe you should be more suggestive with your actions. It'll probably be easier in costume/nearly costume, btu if you have a long-ish skirt, wear that and keep lifting it above your knees at one point 
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Nettik
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Don't slouch, keep your shoulders back. Display your bust proudly. Swagger your hips as you walk and dance. Don't be afraid to take it over the top, I'm sure your director will point it out if you're taking it too far.
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Quique
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It should just come naturally.
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music is my life!!!
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I didn't have enough time to write all i wanted to before so can i just say that Lovely Ladies is a complete contradiction of terms. It's meant to shock the audience. In other words, it only has the right effect on the audience if you and the other girls really go for it! I know it's a bit embarrassing (we sang it last night, and it went quiet on "See 'em with their trousers off...")....
Just watch the London/Broadway productions, and watch each of the women onstage play the roles. ALSO You can use a feather boa or something else on your costume, to give you ideas 
Try to bring a prop/bit of costume you'll use in the performance to rehearsals and try to use it as much as possible, so you don't get to the dress rehearsal and are like "WTF am i sposed to do with this?!?!"
As Nettik said above me, if your director says you're doing too much, then cool it. but, until then, go for it! 
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Quique
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I really enjoy the London production's blocking at the very end of Lovely Ladies--the whores all writhing in place, protruding their bosoms out into the open air, but not in unison. It's hard to explain. It's somewhat overly dramatic, but it's great.
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SmallTownIngenue
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When I did Les Mis last summer, our director worked very hard on making a bunch of well behaved high school/college aged girls act/look like disgusting prostitutes. The main thing to keep in mind is don't try to be pretty/cute, prostitutes in that time were the total opposite of that. Be aggressive and sleezy. If you have a boa for your costume, use it. Be creative and like others have said, over the top, and if you are giving too much, your director will definitely tell you.
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Lara
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When I was playing a courtesan in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way To the Forum, someone gave me the advice of "Cheesecake. Look at the guys like they're nice slices of cheesecake." So try that?
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The Very Angry Woman
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Prostitutes aren't sexy.
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jackrussell
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TVAW is right. Done well, the ladies in Lovely Ladies should look like women who think they're sexy but in fact are just repulsive (to the audience if not the sailors).
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music is my life!!!
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^ true, so try to make the movements as harsh and violent as possible
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The Very Angry Woman
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| jackrussell wrote: | | TVAW is right. Done well, the ladies in Lovely Ladies should look like women who think they're sexy but in fact are just repulsive (to the audience if not the sailors). |
I wouldn't say so much "repulsive" as desperate, fallen and hardened by their lives.
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jackrussell
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That's true - I'll change it to repulsive with a strong hint of pathos.
If you can convey that you're on to a winner!
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