Well, dear readers, we had us a pretty good run-through last night. In terms of run-time and pacing, the show is in really good shape, which is great. So now, it’s just getting the performances where they need to be. Depending on tonight’s run-through, I may decide to do a work-through on Thursday night – but then I may decide to do that tonight, as I have to stage a scene change to music, and I want to fix the acting stuff, and I think we maybe have the luxury to miss one run-through. I’ll decide when I get up what will be best for the cast. Doug was finally back with us and he, too, thought the show was in really good shape – not always the case at this point with the Group Rep – he laughed a lot throughout, which is always helpful for the cast. Set and costume designers were with us, too. Prior to that, I got about six hours of sleep, got up, answered e-mails, and then was out the door by eight-thirty so she of the Evil Eye could do her thing. I met Robert Yacko for breakfast at Hugo’s – I had eggs benedict, which were good. We were there quite some time, gabbing away, then I did a quick trip to Gelson’s but didn’t buy anything. Then I came home and futzed and finessed then wrote a couple of new pages, took a quick break, then wrote four more new pages and had a good idea for what I wanted to do on those pages. There should be another four pages in that sequence and I’m hoping I can do that tonight before bed. After that, I shaved and got ready, then moseyed on over to the theater for a group photograph. We began our run-through at seven-thirty. After the run, I chatted with our leading lady for a bit, then headed home. Once home, I ordered Jack in the Box for a snack because I hadn’t eaten since the eggs benedict at nine. That should be here any minute now. I’m really quite hungry. Food was quick and easy and now we can finish these here notes.

Today, I’ll be up by eleven, I’ll have a telephonic conversation with Richard Allen, and we’ll go over a couple of scene change music things (even less than I thought) and adding eight bars to the head of one number so we have time for the costume change into it. They should all be easy to do. After that, I’ll futz and finesse then write new pages, eat, and then we have our rehearsal and what it will be I’ll decide when I’m up. I just need to figure out what will be best for us.

Tomorrow will depend on what we do tonight – if we work through, then tomorrow will be a run-through. If we run-through tonight, then tomorrow will be a work-through. Friday is a long day for me – starting at noon we’ll be doing a dry tech and writing all the cues. Then at seven, it’s a run-through with a light-over, mics, and sound. Saturday morning is a cue-to-cue, then a quick photo shoot in costume, then a full-out run-through, and then working problems in whatever time we have left. Sunday it’s two full-out dress/tech runs and there’ll be time to work problems, too. Monday we’re off, and then it’s straight on until opening night.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up by eleven, have a telephonic call, go over scene change cues, futz and finesse, write new pages, eat, write, have either a run-through or a work through, and then I’ll come home and write some more. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Ask BK Day, the day in which you get to ask me or any dear reader any old question you like and we get to give any old answer we like. So, let’s have loads of lovely questions and loads of lovely answers and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy to have had a good run-through that ran almost the perfect run-time and now we smooth out the lumps.