Back from some dinner. Rehearsal was mostly great today. One performer was not on their game because I think this performer has a "process." In these shows, I'm really not interested in processes or deep acting - I'm interested in good singers letting the song do its job and them do theirs. When you start adding a bunch of sturm und drang on top of all that, a) it's oppressive, b) our audiences don't respond to it, and c) it's not in step with the other performers are doing.
So, after we were done, I had the performer stay and we talked at length about it and the performer was very understanding and got what I was saying right away and then did the three songs again and it was a thousand percent better. Hopefully, that will retain until the show.