Saturday, July 12, 2014

First casualty

Today at approximately 1:30 pm, we killed our first darling.  It was weird, how completely shocking it was on the one hand (THAT one?!?!!??  are you kidding me?!?!), but how utterly logical and probably necessary it was on the other (You make a compelling argument, Fry.)

And so we lost Allison's main motif in the opening number, but gained a much more cohesive and fully-functioning opening number.  My exact words to Taylor after thinking it over for a couple of minutes were: "I'll make a deal with you.  We can cut the song, but only if we can ask Katie Lee to record it for us, so I have it as part of the 'Cut From ...' CD."  That CD is going to go platinum one of these days.

"This (song) may go, but if I had anything to say about it, at least people will know it was there."

First reading

Rehearsals have begun!  We had our first table reading on Wednesday evening, and started working through some of the music.  Our cast is amazing:  Joseph Spieldenner (Paul), Katie Lee Hill (Allison), John Capes (Barry), Peter Gosik (Henry), Katie Bruestle (Rory), Zach Wobensmith (David), Lisha McKoy (Ann), Adam Machart (Adam) and Franca Vercelloni (Mrs. Goldman) belted out the second act opening number like they'd been singing it for years, and basically just knocked it out of the park.  All I have to do at this point is sit back and let them be awesome.  And build a set.  And buy a bunch of costumes.  And all our props.  And basically keep on top of all the administrative stuff.  But aside from those minor technicalities, my work is basically done.