Well, dear readers, I must write these here notes in a hurry for I have to be back at the theater at around nine-thirty, and I need some sleep due to a rough night at Jericho and only getting five hours at most. I didn’t even have time to post in the morning because the iPhone did a new IOS update, which nuked my alarm, so instead of getting up at ten, I got up at eleven-twenty. I hurried as much as possible and got out the door by eleven-forty and was at the theater just before noon. Whew. Once there, we began dry tech. He’s already written all the cues, so it was just a matter of seeing them and making adjustments as we went. Fortunately, I had three people there to stand where necessary and that made everything much easier. We had Dino’s Pizza for food, and we finished dry tech just before six, which gave us an hour, although I don’t think we started the run until seven-thirty due to getting the actors in mics. Then we did the run-through. There were some sound level issues that were worked out as we went, the show ran what it’s been running, which is good, the lighting guy took lots of notes where we have to adjust during our cue-to-cue this morning. The run-through was not one of our better ones and I had private chats with a few of the actors and I’m afraid I had to come on strong because I can’t massage anymore, I just have to get the performances where they need to be. It was a very long day. When I got home, I got a small cheeseburger from Shake Shack and that arrived very quickly and was a good snack for the third pill. I’d only had three small pieces of pizza earlier. I never got to futz and finesse or write a single new word. Hopefully, I can rectify that tonight after we wrap our rehearsal.

Today, I’ll be up by eight-thirty and out the door by nine-fifteen. We begin our cue-to-cue at ten and that should probably take two hours. Then we have a short photo call, then a food break, and then we set up for a sound and light run-through. We do that, we’ll work an problem areas after and my real goal is to get people out of there before our wrap time of seven. Then I’ll come home and futz and finesse and really try to pound out ten pages at least.

Tomorrow is a two run-through day – one at ten-thirty, one at two. After the second, we’ll work problems areas again, and I’ll get everyone out as early as possible. Then we are off on Monday, invited dress Tuesday, previews on Wednesday and Thursday, open on Friday, talkback on Sunday. And then, dear readers, I really buckle down Winsocki and write, write, write.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up by eight-thirty and out the door by nine-fifteen, do a cue-to-cue, do a photo shoot, eat, do a run-through, and work problem areas, and then come home and futz and finesse and write new pages. Today’s topic of discussion: What was the first car you ever owned? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy to have added the lights as we head into the last two days of tech/run-throughs.