Well that's that, then.

Sixty-two pages! I'm not tinkering anymore. Sixty-two is respectable. Sixty-two will totally work. I am proud and happy to have gotten it down to sixty-two pages.

Now to start dropping in the finished lyrics and working on the new ones.

Random Drive-By Epiphany

I had wanted to get the book down to around sixty pages (I would have liked it to be less than sixty, but I figured sixty was the magic number) before I started placing songs in earnest. It was starting to look like that wasn't going to be possible, but I now actually think I may make it. It's down to sixty-two and a half, and I still have most of the second act to cut from.

Also? I solved a major (well, not major but nagging) problem with the opening number this weekend. If I weren't so bloody sick of the damn thing after reading it a hundred seventy-eight times, I'd say this might actually be shaping up to be a show I can get excited about.