Dear Diary,

Today we got our Plane Crazy postcards for The New York Musical Theatre Festival and they look AWESOME!

Michael Karst, our graphic designer, has outdone himself. They are so brilliant -- designed like an old-fashioned airline travel postcard (Venus Airlines of course) in full color on the front and all the info about the show (cast, creative team, performances, tickets, etc.) on the back!

I took a bag over to the NYMF office which is in the Ed Sullivan building on Broadway (very cool). As I was walking into the building I almost ran into Rupert Jee from the Hello Deli on The David Letterman Show (also in that building).

My next celebrity sighting was outside the shops at Columbus Circle (seems to be a very popular spot with celebrities. I saw Kelli O'Hara who plays Clara, the daughter, in The Light In The Piazza.

That afternoon we had a great rehearsal with the women in the cast, and I got to meet Jodie Langel, the woman playing "Janet" for the first time. Boy is she ever an amazing singer! All the women had mastered a very tricky harmony back up for one of the songs in the show called "I Wanna Get Married/Mr Right Now" and it sounded great. Our music director Seth is such a great teacher. He does all sorts of cool exercises that make the singers focus on either rhythm, pitch or text, or all three.

Then we heard Rick Todd Adams and Jodie Langel do "Dancing On Air" and "I Need You/I Will take Care of You" for the first time -- blow me away! It was so exciting to hear those numbers.

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