SO YOU WANNA BE A BOXER - BUGSY MALONE

So you wanna be a boxer

In the golden ring

Can you punch like a south-bound freight train

Tell me just one thing

Can you move in a whirl like a humming bird's wing

If you need to

Can you bob, can you weave

Can you fake, and deceive when you need to? 

Well, you might as well quit

If you haven't got it

So you wanna be a boxer

Can you pass the test? 

I can tell you've got it in you

I've trained the best

When you work and you sweat

And you bet that you train to a buzz-saw

Then you near lose your mind

When you find that your boy has a glass jaw

So you might as well quit

If you haven't got it. 

Putting him in the ring, Joe

Look at what you found

We can use the fun, Joe

Pushing him around

Well show him the ropes

And destroy his hopes

Put him in the ring, Joe

Give the guy a chance

Let him feel the sting, Joe

We can make him dance

We'll pulp him to bits

Then he'll call it quits for sure, Joe 

So you wanna be a boxer

Wanna be the champ

There's a golden boy inside you

Not a punched-out tramp

If you listen and you learn

There's an honour you can earn and defend here

When you do see the crown

You're a king not a clown

A contender

But you might as well quit

If you haven't got it

Put him in the ring, Joe

Something new to punch

Let me have a swing, Joe

Then we'll go to lunch

We'll make it quite swift

Then he'll get the drift

Put him in the ring, Joe

Chicken a la carte

Let me have a wing, Joe

Tearing him apart

That chicken will crow

Let me have him Joe

The song below:

The song "So you wanna be a boxer" is based on a 1990's film Bugsy Malone. This song also serves as my solo for the upcoming showcase. I had thought this solo would generally suit me because I find the solo quite easy to not only to learn but to have fun with the song. My character during the solo is a black boxing mentor, Joe, who teaches Bugsy's now henchman, Leroy after the trainee rescues Bugsy from a group of gangsters when they mug him. Bugsy as a result, sees potential in the young man, so that is where Joe comes in to mentor Leroy. Throughout this song this will contain choreography and fighting in the middle of the stage during which I say "So you wanna be a boxer". In the end of the song, Deneille, who is playing Leroy, will fight Sonia after the song comes to the end. In addition to the song and choreography, the class will be singing middle parts of my song. I'am confident that the solo will be successful.

Emmeline Pankhurst - BIOGRAPHY

Hairspray - Plot

The plot of the film focuses on a teenage plum girl named Tracy Turnblad. Tracy lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with her overweight kind hearted mother Edna. Her best friend Penny Pingleton watch the Corny Collins Show, a teenage dance show hosted by Corny Collins. This desire to be in the Corny Collins Show is Tracy's dream, but Edna, worried that her daughter will be mocked by other because of her physical appearance (obesity), refuses her to be in the show, although she is reluctant to let her daughter spread her wings.

When Tracy auditions to be in the Corny Collins Show, she ends up being rejected by Velma Von Tussle for being an overweight and supporting segregation. Tracy is sent to detention for skipping school and discovers the "Negro Day" kids practicing in the detention room. Tracy befriends Seaweed J. Stubbs, the students' best dancer and Motormouth Maybelle's son, who teaches Tracy several dance moves. As Tracy leaves detention, she inadvertently bumps into Link and dreams of a life with him. Link tells Tracy to attend a record hop where Corny Collins could give her an opportunity on the show. 

My own ideas for Haispray

My ideas for Hairspray will be different than the original film itself. It will contain different characters' with personality and traits.

The version of my creation of Hairspray will focus on a 17 year old ghetto boy, who has been released from prison; he is determined to straighten his life out by attending an acting and dancing school. The boy is not a very good dancer, but the type who has style to his dancing. His personal life at home is dysfunctional; his mother left him at a young age, and his father is an neglectful and abusive alcoholic though he has friends that are loyal, and is a "bad boy".

He manages to get into the course successfully with the teacher seeing potential in the student. His first day sees to be a disaster; many students look down towards him; some, including the dance teacher treat him, like a outcast due to their "experienced dancing skills"; and many believe he will never make it because of his record.

However, the acting/singing teacher of the course consoles him to remind him why he brought him on the course and he is comforted by a girl in the course, who has a kind-hearted nature. She feels sympathetic for the guy and gives him comfort in a attempt to get to know him only to be rejected. Despite this however, it is evident there is chemistry happen between the two and the ghetto boy apologies for the behaviour; she forgives him and their eyes meet. Unfortunately, a brilliant dancer who happens to be close to the girl keeps them apart by frequently telling people not to be his partner and shutting him off when associating with other people. This makes the guy go back to where he was committing crimes and getting up to bad trobule, but the girl reminds him that he is wanted in the school seeing a sweet sensitive side in him, prompting the ghetto boy to turn from a troublemaker into a decent young man. His objective now is to prove the school that he can make it being someone who he wants to be. The relationship between the girl and the ghetto boy improves as they talk about their past; the girl reveals to be in a rich family, but neglecting due to them being busy, and the ghetto boy talks about his dark past. As the conversation is about to end, she gets his number hoping to hang out sometime.

As the friendship increases, the two come to a point where they kiss but their is something that drags them away though they soon fall in love with each-other. They decide to hide it from others, but it is soon discovered by the ghetto boy's rival.

The plays dances will consists of street, contemporary, and parkour, because I believe that these elements to the dance can make some students pull of the performance.

The ending to the play will have a banter that will say : "In dedication to the departed Sean McGreevy" that will contain a picture of the teacher.

Ballet Dance
Ballet dancing was developed in fifteenth century as performance dance but with the passage of time, with the inclusion of music and choreography in it's production, it became popular as concert dance. Trained dancers in the company of famous composers or professional orchestras perform ballets. Ballet dance studios all over the world teach this dance form after years of training; they would teach this dance to children at the age of 3 and above, for them to become professional ballet dancers with technique.

Jazz Dance
Jazz Dance was popularized as a vernacular dance of African-Americans when Africans were brought to America through slave ships. The traditional Jazz dance was converted into modern Jazz in 1950s with Caribbean dance style in it. Jazz is an energetic fun dance form which included big leaps, quick turns and footwork. The grateful balance in the movement of Jazz dancers enable them to attract viewers attention. A professional dancer has to have high energy and low center of gravity.

Vocabulary and similarities with Jazz and Ballet
Pas De Bourree - A sideways step in which one foot crosses behind or in front of each other.
Pirouettes - A rapid whirling about of the body; a full turn on the toe or ball of one foot.
Releve - To rise.
Grande - A large kick.
Jete - A type of jump from one leap to another.
Saute -  A jump on one foot.

Ballet and Jazz are similar to each other as the body alignment, various postures and cross over steps are similar in both the dance forms

Differences
Ballet had a long history of its developments as classical dance form which took several years to get refined into present form as compared to Jazz dance. The quality of movements, emotional content and telling storylines.

With Jazz, it is considered to have modern dance form even if the classic technique is deep rooted into it. The expressions of its versatile music with the change of generations had it made more contemporary. Jazz is incorporated with more dancing ideal, such as hip-hop and break dance.

Hairspray "You can't stop that beat"

Hairspray (Musical)