Dear Diary,

Today I was in show mode all day! And what a glorious day it was -- 80 degrees and no humidity.

First off I had to fedex all our cast headshots to my husband in Toronto so he can get them up on all our sites. Boy, that's one good looking group of people!

Then off to a design meeting at 11am down at Ripley Grier. Along the way I had another t-shirt incident! I was wearing my Sleeping Beauty Disneyland T-shirt (very stylish...) and a woman came up to me and said "What a colorful t-shirt. It looks very good on you!" What is it with New Yorkers and t-shirts?

We had the whole design team together. Jason, Tony, Jesse, Elizabeth, Desiree, Noel, Jamibeth. It's like there is a whole other show going on and these are the cast members. They are working so hard behind the scenes, it's mind-boggling. I'm learning so much -- hey guys, I'll try and reduce the number of props in my next show...at least I'm not asking for a live lamb...

Then off to rehearsal. We had two rooms -- Randy was choreographing the stew zoo scene in one, and Jamibeth was working with the men in the other. Naturally, I stayed with the men!

Actually, I just didn't think I could handle watching the women be cool back-up singers in "Mr. Right Now" and not dance along. My dream is to one day be a choreographed back-up singer!

We worked on the advertising presentation scene with Clive, Sam and Larry (Kevin, William and Chris). It was great watching Jamibeth work with the actors. She really tries to paint a picture for the actors and asks them questions about their characters in the scene. She lets them play, and play off each other and the scene evolves and gets better, with stuff I'd have never predicted!

I'm not sure I'd be a great director -- I'm always tempted to say at the beginning "Just say it exactly this way!"

I love the physical comedy bits that the actors bring to the scene. By the end of the session I was having flashbacks to my days at P&G working with advertising guys!

Then we switched to the "What Do Women Want" scene with Sam, Clive, and Brett (Rick Todd Adams) which looks great.

I think the funniest moment was when the actors decided to do the scene in French...

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