Dear Diary,

Whew -- Another long day of rehearsal! But an exciting one! We did a full run-through which was great, and worked on the scene transitions, which is like a scientific formula! It's great to really see the flow of the show. This is the start of a big week! We have two more days of rehearsal and then on Thursday we have our big tech and opening night! Holy Sexy Skies Batman!

We give the cast line notes, which are given out on special forms. These forms note the character, the page in the script and whether the line was forgotten, switched, paraphrased, changed etc. And whether this note had been given before, or not.

But the most exciting part of the day was the band and cast sing through! Also known as a "sitzprobe", this is the first time the cast hears the music done by the full band. Rehearsals are strictly piano only, so this is very exciting. Seth did a fabulous job of rehearsing the band and integrating the cast vocals, and of course, playing. It went very smoothly, and I was seriously rockin' out to "That Was Then This Is Now"!

In our fabulous Plane Crazy band will be:

Seth Weinstein, conductor/keyboard
John Bell, associate conductor/piano
Greg Germann, drums
James Bettincourt, bass
Felipe Salles, tenor saxophone
Peter Kikidakis, tenor saxophone (September 24 performance).

Tomorrow: The fabulous NYMF opening Gala!

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