Back from an incredibly fun and ultimately illuminating dinner. I took ten of the Abner kids out, along with Kay Cole and her ever-lovin' Michael Lamont to be there as witnesses to what was said and how questions were asked. The main point was to let them all know how much fun I had working with them. I then filled them in about the bad business and brought them up to date. Then we all ate a whole mess o' food, and then I began with some simple questions. I told them not to answer anything they weren't comfortable with and that I wasn't interested and didn't need to know the content of the conversations they'd had with the person they'd been required to speak to.
And what I heard was everything I kind of knew I'd hear - some people had nothing much to say because that's how it had gone for them. But others? Wow. Everything I could have wanted to bolster what we already basically knew and some new information that was so mind-boggling as to defy credulity. My mouth was on the floor. And a couple of other little bombshells, more of which are coming privately later on the phone. With all this new information, a second letter will be drafted and sent, probably on Thursday, and if anyone thought the first one was strong, this one will be ten times stronger. The lawyer and I will discuss and if he feels there could be a big enough payday at the end of this, we may just go ahead and take this to the next step, if everything they're doing isn't halted immediately and confirmed to us by e-mail and the apology delivered, including now an apology from two people directly tied to the theater department, who so overstepped their bounds it's actually laughable.
