Back from an endless day. Had a nice work session with Alet, basically just singing through stuff and making some choices, but not doing any routining or arranging. Then I routined a long medley for Merissa, and the one other song we hadn't done. Then Merissa and I had our first two hour staging rehearsal. We went number by number, figured out where the patter goes and the essence of said patter. I also decided to cut one number, and it was the final one we'd worked on earlier - it just seemed redundant and didn't help the show, which is long enough without it. I gave her some fun stuff to do, and the good news is that the structure is really good and very sound. Now we just work on it and smooth it out every day.