Then it was an exhausting work session with Lanny and Richard Allen. In Levi, there are a series of sung letters that the lead character writes. I added several of them to make it a runner, but the two that were actually in the show each had different music. I really did not like the opening letter's music, the first music and singing we hear in the show, because it was in a minor key and sounded like a rabbi doing Yom Kippur or something. The letter that I now have opening act two (it used to come later than that) had completely different music in a major key - after struggling with this minor thing for ten minutes, I made the decision that all the letters will use the major key music. All the lyrics scan correctly for either the major or the minor and now I'm finally happy with the way the show will open. Lanny had some good ideas, too. Richard had done on his own an arrangement of the song I wrote with Richard but I'd seen the sheet music already and knew it wasn't right - so I'd done my own over the last few days and played that and they both really liked it and Lanny improved it in a couple of places.
