I want this day to CALM THE HELL DOWN. I did the long jog in the new shoes - very disturbing experience - very difficult getting used to the fit and feel of the new shoe - but halfway through the run they started to settle in and I think they'll be fine. Certainly they put more of a spring in my step. I then had to hurry to the bank, then to Teddy, who cut my hair very short. I then came home to about forty e-mails, a flurry of Bacharach-related performer stuff. Our producer, without consulting me or anyone else, added three people to the show - I'm now stuck with that and it does not make me happy. I'm sure they're very talented but they are not names and they take up three very valuable solo spots, and put us up to twenty-seven songs right now. I'll go to thirty (fifteen per act) if absolutely necessary, but I really want to cap it at twenty-eight. I have said since day one that this is a two-hour show, and I will NOT let it go one minute past two hours (the intermission is above the two hours, and there'll be a five minute speech before we begin).
