Good Morning Baltimore - Lyrics

Oh, oh, oh
Woke up today
Feeling the way i always do
Oh, oh, oh
Hungry for something
That i can't eat
Then i hear that beat
The rhythm of town
Starts calling me down
It's like a message from
High above
Oh, oh, oh
Pulling me out
To the smiles and the
Streets that i love

Good morning Baltimore
Every day's like an open door
Every night is a fantasy
Every sound's like a symphony

Good morning Baltimore
And some day when i take to the floor
The world's gonna wake up and see
Baltimore and me

Oh, oh, oh
Look at my hair
What "do" can compare with mine today?
Oh, oh, oh,
I've got my hairspray and radio
I'm ready to go

The rats on the street
All dance round my feet
They seem to say
"Tracy, it's up to you"
So, oh, oh
Don't hold me back
'Cause today all my dreams will come true

Good morning Baltimore
There's the flasher who lives next door
There's the bum on his bar room stool
They wish me luck on my way to school

Good morning Baltimore
And some day when i take to the floor
The world's gonna wake up and see
Baltimore and me

I know every step
I know every song
I know there's a place where i belong
I see all those party lights shining ahead
So someone invite me
Before i drop dead!

So, Oh, Oh

Give me a chance
'Cause when i start to dance i'm a movie star
Oh, oh, oh
Something inside of me makes me move
When i hear the groove

My ma tells me no
But my feet tell me go!
It's like a drummer inside my heart
Oh, oh, oh
Don't make me wait
One more moment for my life to start...

Good morning, good morning
Waiting for my life to start

I love you Baltimore
Every day's like an open door
Every night is a fantasy
Every sound's like a symphony

And i promise Baltimore
That some day when
I take to the floor
The world's gonna wake up and see
Gonna wake up and see
Baltimore and me...
Baltimore and me...
Baltimore and me!

My theatre experience!

I have been to see 4 musicals which are pictured below. I went to see Billy Elliot in London along with Grease and Shrek. I then went to see Legally Blonde whilst it was on tour in Stoke. Out of these musicals, my favourite was Billy Elliot because the talent in the younger dancers is outstanding for saying they have to manage all school work and perform on the West-End most evenings. The story line is very sad in this musical and I think that the acting was very good because it made me emotional as they made it so realistic.





Story Plot - Hairspray

Hairspray is a musical set in 1962 Baltimore.

Tracy Turnblad spends all of her time watching the Corny Collins  show, a dance-a-thon with Link Larkin as its main star along with his girlfriend Amber Von Tussle (Brittany Snow) whose scheming mother, Velma, controls all the votes for the Miss Hairspray crown.
Velma says no to Tracy being part of the show because of her size and her height, but Corny sees her at the school and lets her be part of the show.
Tracy creates a few enemies with her views on segregation, her best friend Penny falls in love with Seaweed, who taught Tracy her dance moves and Link starts falling fall her.

Accessed 23/10/2012; http://www.ruinedendings.com/film2167plot


The song, 'Good Morning Baltimore' is the very first song played in the film, this is because she is waking up for a new day in her life, however, all she thinks about is being a dancer and performing on the Corn Collins show which is what the whole song is about. 

"You can't stop the beat" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhxfn6rXHP8&feature=related  is another song in Hairspray. This comes near the end, because a girl called Amber is stopping Tracy from achieving her dream of performing. This song shows Tracy standing up to Amber telling her that she cannot stop her from achieving her dream.

"The new girl in town" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRi2T6mgH3Y&feature=related is also about Tracy. She has made a good impression on the cast of the Corny Collins show and they are all talking about her and how she is a threat to Amber. Everyone wants to be her and have her ambition, drive and personality.

Costume ideas for the performance

For our performance, I have thought of some costume ideas that we could wear. Here are some pictures of what Tracy and the cast wear in the film.

Here you can see Tracy is wearing her school uniform as this is what the song is about (Tracy going through her daily routine on the way to school).

I think that this would be a good costume idea for our performance because it is just Tracy in her school uniform and that's what the song is about. Therefore, our interpretation of this would be a blouse or shirt of some kind and also a school skirt.










 Here you can see the cast members and their costume. They are wearing big and puffy dresses that have an underskirt attached to them because this is what people wore in the 1960's
 
 
 I think that this costume would be a good idea to wear because the song is very girly and about a girl dreaming of being on stage and this goes well because we can use the dresses as part of the characterisation of Tracy to show her personality.





Next week, I will show my group the research I have done on the costumes and see if we can come up with an idea all together.

Lesson 4 - 04/10/2012

This week, we all took part in a vocal warm up again -this made sure that our vocal chords were fully warmed up to reach our maximum potential when singing. Also, to get us all working as a group and comfortable singing around each other we sang a variety of songs from different musicals. This benefited us because it means that we are now more confident when singing as a group.

This week I feel like as a group, we now all know the lyrics of the song without having to look at the sheets. This benefits us as a group because it means we can now work on getting the routine right to fit with the lyrics. Also, this week I think that we have all worked as a team well to help each other out when learning the song to make sure that everybody knows what they are singing and how to sing it.

However, for next week, I feel like we need to work on the characterisation of the song and how the song is portrayed to the audience. As Hairspray is a 'cheesy' musical, I think that the actions need to very outgoing and over the top. We could do this by characterising some of the words such as when Tracy sings "give me a chance, because when I start to dance I'm a movie star"; we need to act this out and really show off what the song is trying to say.