ENTITLED: "The 1st Rehearsal" or "How much time do we have?"

First off, I didn't really have a picture to use yet so I settled on this one. (We will say it is my main character, Dylan, as a youngster, growing up in Indiana! This is why he's so messed up...) And sometimes don't we all feel a bit like this?

So, the 1st rehearsal! I don't know if it was good or bad or what. All I really know is that we don't have a lot of time to put this show together. Tristan said that they've never put a show together this quickly and I said how wonderful that it is an original piece that no one knows. But you know, I watched this episode of "Property Whores" or something like that where people "flip" houses and they messed around the whole freaking show, worrying about time, and then when they had 3 days before their open house and they all busted their butts and guess what?... they were ready! Isn't that the way it always goes? And actually, the good new is that all but one cast member were in the read-through so... that helps. We covered a good amount of the group #'s like: "Hot Mess", "White", "Fields" and "Misfits like us". There is a slower section of the song "White" and Sarah, the music director, said she wanted to hit that beautiful harmony section in the middle, and you know... I had forgotten I even wrote that harmony. But it was really pretty when we finally got it. The cast sings a little counter melody under Dylan and Kennedy as they profess their love... and the lyrics the cast sings are actually from Song of Solomon in the Bible. How 'bout that? (It doesn't get into too much of the dirty stuff Solomon talks about though.)

Anyway... really not much to tell. It was pretty much the typical music rehearsal. We did all have a good laugh when Chris handed out contracts and they forgot to delete the "?" from "Who's afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" (you know, it's kind of a form letter) so the letter read something like, "welcome to Tired American Dream?" Like we don't REALLY know if it is or isn't. Well, we do have only about 4 rehearsals with the entire cast before we open "Tired American Dream?"