Whew!

Boy, what a good rehearsal we had today! I gave the actors the line cuts (actors LOVE to find out that they don't have to memorize as many lines as they thought!) and we worked just the first 15-20 minutes of the show. That's the section we're doing on Sunday. Monica, our Producer, and Sharla, our Tour Director (she's the one that arranges the booking of the performances at all the various towns), sat in and watched. They were VERY pleased at what they saw. You have to remember that this is what they do for a living-- if they didn't like anything, they would have said so! They were as impressed with the actors work as I am.

We worked about an hour just on choreography and music. That helped a lot. They just about "have it" now. We'll be doing music with each rehearsal from now on-- they'll get it in no time.

We found out that we'll be taking our full scenery to Garden City and as many costumes as we have ready. Remember that this special performance was a last-minute arrangement-- we weren't supposed to have sets and costumes ready for another week. Our designers are GREAT!

Tomorrow, we'll be running the beginning section again. If they continue their improvement with this section, we'll start the next section, too. Either way, we're in good shape!