Chapter 46: Preparing for the Showcase
The day had finally come, the day of the High School Show Choir Showcase. Everybody had been looking forward to this day for four weeks now. After four weeks of constant practice; The New Directions had finally made it to the showcase so they could show what they were made of. Blaine was acting like a little girl which Sam found to be absolutely adorable. "Oh My God, Oh My God, OH MY FUCKING GOD! We made it!" Blaine yelled in the bus as it pulled up to the hotel were The New Directions staying at. "Aww. Blainey, are you happy?" Sam said teasingly to his boyfriend with a tone of happiness in his voice. "Hey Trouty, calm Bowtie down or I'm going to have to stuff one of his bowties down his mouth. Or you know you could always sex him up a bit to shut him up." Santana said from behind where Sam and Blaine were sitting, she said the last part with her winking at the pair of boys with a smile on her face. "Santana, leave the two happy dolphins alone. We don't want to have to watch them mate, now do we?" Brittany told her girlfriend while trying to stifle a huge giggle from erupting. During the past four weeks; Brittany had really come out of her shell, and had become a lot more adult like, though she still was a little child at heart. Santana just turned back to look at Brittany with a silly smile on her face; one that Santana rarely wore unless she was really, Really, REALLY happy. Across from the seat that Blaine and Sam were in, was where Jake and Ryder were currently seated. Jake had been talking with his brother; Puck for a little while during the bus ride, however he was always holding Ryder in an embrace that just screamed "I love you and I am never letting go of you. Meanwhile Sunshine and Rachel were swapping diva stories, and Rachel was sharing her experiences at NYADA with Sunshine. Tina Cohen-Chang and her boyfriend; Mike Chang, where both just sitting and still catching up on what the other had done over the time they had been apart. Tina had even shared her secret crush on Blaine with Mike, but had eventually gotten over Blaine and was back to Mike. Quinn and Kitty surprisingly had become best friends over the practices, and currently they were swapping stories concerning how they were total bitches and how Kitty still is a bitch, though Kitty had been learning to stop being so much of a bitch to everybody, however she was still a mini-Quinn; totally a bitch. Mercedes was giving Marley vocal tips on how to control her breathing better and Joe, Artie, and Sugar would help Marley by giving her their feedback as to how she sounded. Mr. Schuester, Emma Pillsbury, and Finn were all talking about how Emma was doing during her pregnancy, and Finn was making sure that she was alright. Finn wanted Mr. Schuester to be able to relax and know that his wife was going to be alright. Everybody had been having such a good time leading up to this point. Then the bus dropped everybody off at the hotel for preparing for the showcase.
After everybody was all settled into the hotel and their rooms; they all went into practicing for the big event tonight. Brittany, Mike, Jake, Santana, and Quinn all took the liberty to lead the group of students into reviewing the choreography for each song, and for each transition between each song. They first started with the opening number; No Air. Sam and Santana both took their places in the room and ran through the choreography so that they would be able to remember it like it was second nature. After about five repetitions, they transitioned into practicing the next song; My Life Would Suck Without You. Rachel and Sunshine were both going to be sharing the lead, so they both went through the entire song; speaking the lyrics, and making sure that both girls could sing the song lyrics back and forth without thinking about it. Eventually after six re-runs, Mr. Schuster deemed it as enough, but he wanted both of the girls to keep on memorizing the lyrics whenever they could get a break, free time, during a transition as long as they were paying attention to the transition. After that song; the group switched to doing their third song; Beautiful Soul. Ryder was singing that song on his own, and he had developed his own choreography with Finn's help. Finn helped Ryder whenever Ryder tripped up; but only had to help out twice; Mr. Schuster had Ryder go over it two more times before he was satisfied with it. Next up was the song; Wings; Santana had asked for this particular song to be an all-girls song, so she, Rachel, Sunshine, Brittany, Unique, Quinn, Mercedes, Marley, Kitty, Tina, Sugar would all be singing that song. Santana, Quinn, Brittany, and Kitty were all going to be doing the more fast paced moves and Tina, Sugar, Marley, and Unique were all going to be backing up the more powerful voices which were; Mercedes, Santana, Rachel, and Sunshine. All ten girls did an amazing job with the song in their choreography and spoke their lyrics so as to save their voices for the big performance. Mr. Schuester had them do it again one more time just to make sure that they had it down solid. After the girls did their song together, the boys came up and did their performance of Low, where Artie was the main singer because of his rapping capability. Mike and Jake had helped tutor all the other guys into learning the dance steps for their song, Artie had managed to create his own choreography which was where the others centered their dancing around. The guys pulled off an extremely well executed song, but Mr. Schue was very firm in believing that everything they practiced should be practiced at least twice; so the guys re-ran it again.
The girls came on again and this time all the old members of the New Directions taught the new members the choreography for their next song; Edge of Glory by Lady Gaga. Since the old members hadn't been back in a while, Mr. Schuester had told them to go over it again and then do it out in the other room while the boys did their next song; Maroon 5's song; One More Night. Finn was going to be the lead singer for this song, and Blaine taught the other guys how to use their voices to make the instrumental part of the song, however whenever another voice was used in the song; they would switch to another guy seamlessly. Mr. Schuester was very impressed with how well that song was managed to be pulled off, along with the choreography that the guys did while singing. After the guys had finished that song, the girls came back to do their next song; Want U Back, by Cher Lloyd. The choreography was practiced over and over by Kitty. Kitty was going to be the lead singer of this song and had managed to pull off the notes to do it. The next song which was practiced was Buttons by The Pussycat Dolls. The choreography was in a word; sexy. The choreography was timed perfectly with the song, and the wild side that the girls had in them to unleash were all very amazing. Each of the girls had broken off to do their own choreography at one point in the song, but then had seamlessly reverted back to group choreography; which was were small groups of three or two did the same thing. Mr. Schuester had never been more shocked at how talented his students were, and realized that they didn't need to practice that song again unless they wanted to. However all of the girls had agreed to run it again once more and then go take a breather.
The next song; Sexyback, was going to be performed by the guys with Sam singing the part of Justin Timberlake, and with Jake singing the part of Timbaland by himself at the beginning, but would later on be joined by the other guys; one at a time. Eventually Sam would switch out with Ryder, then Blaine, then Jake, Then Finn, then it would be Puck, and finally itwould go all the way back to Sam. When Jake was singing the Justin Timberlake part, then Blaine would sing the Timbaland part. And if Blaine was singing Justin Timberlake, then Jake would be singing the Timbaland. The guys did their practice so well and so astoundingly, Mr. Schuester wondered what it is that happened to make them work this hard on it. The only other time that he had seen this amount of passion was when he was getting the New Directions practicing for Nationals on the day that they won Nationals last year. "Okay guys, nicely done. Let's move onto the next song then." He said with encouragement. The next song which was Circus by Britney Spears, Brittany had arrived to go over her choreography she had done and practiced every day since she learned that the song she wanted was going to be on the set list. Brittany took her position and began her choreography with Tina, Unique, and Sugar backing her up with vocals. In no time at all, she had managed to finish her choreography and asked if she could be allowed to do it again so that she could make sure everything was down just right. So she ran through it again, and was convinced that it was good, but she told Tina, Sugar, and Unique to meet her after practice to run through it again with her just in case she might have anything to polish up on. After Brittany finished up her song, everybody came back together to get ready for the two final songs. The first song was So What by P!nk Marley came to the front of the group as the lead singer for this song. They started their choreography and Marley's personality in the song and how she sung the song transformed into a female rock star before Mr. Schue's very eyes. She started and finished as an incredible performer and had everybody else in the glee club backing her up as she sung her solo. The song was pretty much nailed in Mr. Schue's opinion. So they moved onto the last song; Singing in the Rain/Umbrella mash up. Everybody backed up the two lead singer's; Rachel and Finn. Both former Glee singers just hammered the song into the ground, and Mr. Schuster knew that they wouldn't need to practice it another time. Mr. Schuester looked to his students and former students, and said with huge grin; "Well guys, let's go kick some show choir butt!" and all around the room there was cheering and whooping and clapping. Mr. Schuester knew they would be the best at that showcase and was so happy with himself and his students and former students.
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