I slept really late, ten-thirty, and awoke to twelve e-mails from the co-author of the long musical. The only one I felt was worth responding to was one in which he said he'd thought about two drastic suggestions I made and that they didn't work for him, but that he's willing to do some serious cutting in those two areas. I wrote him back and said that if he was not willing to come here with an open mind on Tuesday that I was canceling the session and we'd just do the show with whatever cuts he wanted. I reminded him that I've been asking for these drastic things for six months and every time this was his answer - well, it still doesn't work and if he cannot see that drastic measures are needed, then he will never have a show and I'll stage the reading and be done.
