Oh, and the lyricist and co-writer Bob Cohen is coming to see it this weekend. He will also be doing a workshop tomorrow from 10-2. I'm anxious to see what he thinks. They wrote it as the type of musical where the chorus is put on a riser/platform and dressed in black. I went "yuck" and spent months planning the set and blocking to where we have a cute little stylized neighborhood with picket fence, houses, etc., and the chorus plays neighbors, townspeople, etc. And all you dog-loving HHWers will appreciate that I wanted a live dog in the opening number and in a few other scenes with the main character (the script called for a mechanical dog tail waving from off stage ...). I was going to use Deuce, but it turned out the actor playing the dog owner had his own dog -- so Lucy Langford is playing Mr. Kincaid (and the audience loved her!).
