Back from our second preview, and then a bite to eat, my first of the day. Full house, but a completely weird group who simply would not laugh - I mean, the laughs are so surefire and consistent in this show it's amazing, but not for this group - they enjoyed it, we had great applause, but they just would not laugh. Then Kay and I had a notes session with the artistic director, which was interesting, because several of her notes based on comments she's gotten mean that if I address them we'll be doing what I originally wanted to do but was talked out of, i.e. putting in an intermission, which I always wanted, which would put the one song that feels like it's in a weird place back where it originally was. The other change will be putting back the opening the way I originally wanted it, and that will help a lot. But we'll also be restaging the opening number to simplify it - for whatever reasons, despite the fun staging by Kay, the cast just looks mechanical doing it and it's hurting the number and getting the audience to enter our world - so it will be much less and we'll just have a little movement and let the cast just concentrate on singing the song and doing the harmonies well. But basically, the show is working structurally, at least it is for me.
