Back from a productive rehearsal, after an initial annoyance when one of our cast didn't show up - said cast member never bothered to even look at any of his subsequent e-mails about the schedules - he had the very first one, when we hadn't settled on the Sunday rehearsal. Every one after that had Sunday on it and there were at least four reminders sent. He arrived ninety minutes late and then I had to take the next hour and put him into the number I'd just finished blocking. He wasn't happy at the beginning, nor was I, although I was patient and calm and nice about it. Hopefully, e-mails will be opened and read after this. I then did the opening of act two and got the positions set for another group number, and with the exception of one solo and one duet and the finale, everything is blocked and I'm just hoping that everyone wrote down their stuff so that I don't have to spend hours redoing things I've done. I think the next three rehearsals are going to tell the tale in terms of everyone getting these songs in their heads and movement in their bodies. If, on Friday, when I begin to assemble the various parts into a whole, everyone is on top of everything, then I think we'll be just fine. If not, then I may have to be a little more insistent.
