So yesterday was our first rehearsal in the space, but I missed all but the tail end due to the rehearsal for John's reading that we are doing tomorrow.

Unfortunately, my scene which was so funny the last time we did it has been re-written and is a good deal less funny. I still get to sing the theme from Rocky, though, which is always a good thing.

I ducked out at 12.45p so that I could get to the Boys rehearsal, not for me to rehearse but so that I could finally work on these boys' accents. We are about to open and now I'm doing it? I'd say better late than never, except that sometimes adding an accent this late can confuse people.

Not everyone stayed for my little workshop, just Sam, Jamie and Omar. I had already worked with Omar, Jamie only needed minor adjustments, and Sam was the real get. He just had this tendency to bite down so hard on the dialect that it would get squished and a little Hee-Haw-y. Also, whenever he got emotional or yelled, his R's would disappear, and that's not good.

So we worked and I adjusted his vowel sounds and everything was mightily improved.

Before we left, though, I realized something that I had seen in the makeshift set when I came in that didn't quite penetrate until that moment.

The pool table was facing the wrong way. It was positioned vertically to the audience, running up and downstage rather than horizontally stage right to left. I asked Sam if that was just because of the crowdedness of the stage for this rehearsal (Bubbling is playing in there now and it's very set-heavy), or if it was really going to be like that.

"It's really going to be like that."
"WHAT?!"
"Um, it's really going to be like that."
"WHY?!"
"Well, Dwayne thought it would be a better reveal if the guys were really hiding you and Lloyd looked as though he were just playing pool, and that can only be done if they are standing at the short side."
"Well, Dwayne can suck my dick!!"

Dwayne's? It may be a more dramatic reveal in one way, but if all the audience is going to see is the top of my fucking head, then it is way less dramatic. So I called That Man and yelled at his answering machine that he was the director and could do what he wanted, but that I thought that it was a terrible idea.

I am absolutely not doing the show that way, I don't care what Dwayne says.

Of course, when I calmed down I did see that it's better for the set if it's vertical, since we don't have all of the width in the world and it just makes it easier all around. For everything but me. Cynthia suggested, as I was whining to her, that I could just as easily be horizontal on the vertical pool table, it works just as well for me to be lying crossways, possibly even better.

So that's cool, even if That Man doesn't want to change it, I've got a good compromise.

Last night Le had a party at his house, which was fun.

Omar didn't come (Fran said, "Where's the Student Prince?"), though he half said that he might come, maybe, in the late part of it, possibly, which I knew meant no. Honestly, how he can be so shy with a roomful of his friends I'll never know.

You know, except for the fact that sometimes I am as well.

It was great, though, even without him. Le hasn't had a party in a long time, not really since Diane died. There were tons of people, shrimp cocktails, and really big cups. Gregg David said, "Big cups, a good thing or a bad thing?" and I said good, though as you are gulping down a bathtub full of alcohol, it was easy enough to see how it could have been bad.

I had goddamn fight rehearsal at 9a, so I left at 1a with Cynthia and Fran in the car. I got something like five hours of sleep. It's totally not fair to have to get up earlier on a Sunday than you usually do for work during the week.

Today's horoscope:
Not many people are working today. Although it looks like you're the exception, this is actually playtime for you. The Stars help you focus and thrive at the things you naturally do best.

One year ago today:
"What the fuck are you children doing? "What the fuck is wrong with you? If you do not knock off this noise right now, you are getting a spanking and I am not kidding!!!"

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