Hard Workin' Stiffs

We plowed through the rest of the script on Tuesday night, stitching the choreography into the blocking. We bogged down a bit in the "Prodigal Son" section at the end of Act One. It's still swampy and boggy, and the only person who can keep it on track is Rudy. His "Garry Summer" talkshow host character will HAVE to keep it on track with his persistent questioning, or it falls apart quickly. We'll work it a lot in the next several weeks.

But we tromped through everything else pretty acceptably, enough to give them tonight off. Thursday is a MUST show for everyone, as it is a VOCAL rehearsal. Saturday is the choreography for the final two numbers (and probably a review), and then the percussion work.

I'm still edgy about that whole thing. I am NOT a percussionist. I know what I want, but I am NOT a musician and don't profess to be. The music I have done so far seems juvenile, and I am only about a quarter done. I'll spend some time on it tonight and on Friday, but I also have to work on masks and menhirs. And then I have to teach it to other non-musicians. This will be a challenge...

We'll see.

Oh, yeah, I'll finally be judging the submissions for the original t-shirt decoration contest from a few weeks back. I'll get that done this week too.

- Sean