Thank you all for the headache vibes. The reading was interesting, with quite a turnout. The "editor" when she met me thanked me for going through the score and said "I'm the scholar who's preparing this edition." I couldn't tell if she was marking territories or just letting me know that she has a PhD and uses "Doctor" before her name in all conversation. I wanted to retort with "you may be a scholar but you sure ain't no musician," but I behaved. After a while the headache came back as I listened to her acting informed about the crap I had to correct to the orchestra and folk there. She knows a lot about the history of the show, but she knows nothing about right notes, wrong notes, Broadway band parts vs touring parts, cued notes or the history of how old the parts shes working from may even be.
I had fun with several friends who were there - Robert Kimball and his lovely wife, Bruce Pomahac of Rodgers & Hammerstein, conductor Rob Berman, and the mighty Josh who makes me laugh. It was great to see Red Press, who's getting a special Tony Award on Tuesday.