BJ is indeed coming along, so that's good. I just had to explain how things would work.
Lauren, on the other hand, has behaved so poorly that I'm really annoyed with her. As I said, she's in my friend Gary's show (which she would not be in were it not for the Brain) - it's playing the Fringe and she's taking ten days off from her job to do it, and not giving anyone ANY grief about it. But with me, for whatever reason, she not only wants her flight covered, but to be reimbursed for work missed - on top of that, she cannot miss more than two-and-a-half weeks worth of work, which would give me less than a week of rehearsals with her. Needless to say, I said no to everything and I let her know that I knew that she was not being reimbursed in any way, shape, or form for my friend's show. Of all the roles to recast, I think hers is probably the easiest, so I'm now on the prowl for someone really good.