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20 second choreography?

posted 15 years ago by lexusis
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I'm sure someone has already brought this up, and I know it's just a movie, but my disbelief just couldn't be suspended for this...

At the final choir competition, they are going out in their robes and are going to do a fairly traditional program I'd assume (relative to what the final product was that is), but during Lauren Hill's solo, Sister Mary Clarence tells them all to take off their robes and to go out there "comfortable".

So, my question is, how in the world did they choreograph and score and design a laser light show within the span of 20 seconds when they decided to go out there in their street clothes and when they actually started to sing?

They show the guy on the piano, yet there is all this other music and hip hop beats and etc... Where did all that come from!? Not to mention all the special effects and dance numbers.

It would probably take months to organize something like that!

[–] wesbrown200 14 years ago

Well notice how the stage director told them not Whoopi, maybe wshe worked it out after or before the last grouo withhte stage lights.

As far as the kids go, Choreography wasnt really an issue. I mean if you pay attention the song is kind sung in smaller groups throughout the piece with mainly the beginning and the end sung by the group. "Comfortable" might also mean as they sang with each otherthrough the class in their niches, and you cant say that students or groups of people dont do that. and I think that what the storyline and the movie was getting at in the end, "sticking together"

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[–] zheet 14 years ago

It was all probably planned, except for the street clothes thing and the back flip.

[–] Ltay328 11 years ago

I think everything that was done was planned except the robes. Now granted, you probably can't do the backflips and such in robes but I don't think you're meant to think that their performance changed, just the attire changed.