I had an interesting thing with our producer/creator today - I'd given a note to an actor yesterday, asking him to try something - because the vocals on the songs are different voices, there's one solo bit that's a very LOW voice, which doesn't match our actor's voice at all. So, I had him do the line into the song, going from his higher normal voice into a low voice for his final line of dialogue - on purpose. He did it today and it got a big laugh - just perfect. We had to stop because of a tech issue and our producer/creator asked him to try it in a completely different way - doing the line in a completely phony high voice. I turned to him strongly and said, "No - it just worked perfectly." And he said "I want to try it this way," and proceeded to tell the actor how to do it. The actor just looked confused, because the producer/creator is not a director. The actor did it, and it was awful. Later, the producer/creator came up to me and told me I was right, but that he'd just wanted to try it. I told him that trying things is fine, but that he has to filter his actor notes through me - actors cannot have notes coming from anyone but the director - he totally understood.
