'Another Day' is number between my character of Roger and the character Mimi (played by Meg) after an attempt seduction towards him and also to get him out the house. Within the number it is clear that Roger is definite about staying in and not ever starting anything with Mimi in his attempt to push her away out of fear and loneliness. He desperate to tell her that he is HIV positive to justify his depression but simply cannot bring himself to.
In order to portray all of this effectively, meg and i worked very closely together on creating this scene/number. It was apparent to us that we needed to show more of an effort being made by Mimi, so in order to capture this we made a decision ofr Meg to sort of take charge in setting this number - walon with my contribution. Doing this really worked effectively, as there were definitely points where she would suggest something and i not be all for it - strongley mirroring this relatiohship between Roger and Mimi.
Exploring into the script and looking at the lyrics of the song, Roger is desperate to push her away and get her out of his sight - to a point where he is actually angry with her. Mimi's words, however, are exactly the opposite where she devotes a clear love and attraction to him that she can't let go of. Within a section of the song, I manually move myself around the table to get away from sitting next to Meg and trying to prevent any connection with her, but she will simply not let Roger go - and we end up playing a sort of cat and mouse stylistic game around the table.
We workshoped the idea of most of the movement throughout the song should come from my character - him being the one trying to get away from her. Whereas Mimi would often stay planted, in order to get across her constancy toward Roger, and the fact that she is not leaving.
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