Dear Diary,

It has finally cooled off a bit -- yeah!

Yesterday we had a great production meeting. And we had a new member of the team there, our assistant stage manager, Stephanie Ward!

More costume designs, more swatches! You're gonna love Larry Stevens costume! More set designs, more lighting issues...

Discussions on photo shoots, postcards, musicians (we have a drummer -- yeah!)

And today, we started rehearsals! How exciting. We had ten of the sixteen cast members there which was so cool. The other six will be joining us by Saturday, all enroute from other gigs.

It was strictly a music rehearsal so our fab music director Seth Weinstein worked his fingers to the bone for five hours playing, singing, conducting, correcting, encouraging, and fine tuning our cast. I was blown away by how much everyone already knew. Of course the women were fabulous but one particularly rewarding moment was hearing the male chorus sing -- such great strength!

Sitting behind the desk taking notes, and enjoying the concert, were myself, Jamibeth, Noel and Stephanie our ASM, who did a great job of running the rehearsal, calling breaks, and tabbing everything that wasn't nailed down! Jamibeth spoke a few words to start and then handed out schedules, and contact information. We even have our own rehearsal hotline number! Stephanie printed this all up in little purple wallet cards -- super cool!

Elizabeth Payne our costume designer was there to take measurements and one by one the cast was grabbed and removed from the room to be given the once over for measurements. We finished up around 10pm and I walked home. I had trouble getting to sleep I was so excited!

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