The dress rehearsal of ONCE UPON A MATTRESS was enjoyable. It's a nice little production that, this week -- tech week -- is suffering from ... tech. Being an outdoor venue, rains affected rehearsals and apparently there were absences due to illness, so they're in panic mode.
But the cast and the directing are spot on. The director knows his stuff and the leads are comic perfection. Every one of them completely gets where a joke or a gag begins and ends, and how to make it land perfectly. And what a pleasure that is. The singing is all good and the small band does fine.
It's funny and charming, and I know that whatever blips there may be, they'll have a great opening tonight. Friends and I will be there next week to see it.