In today's Comedy of Errors - a week ago, our musical director called (I have a vague memory of it) to ask if he and Gloria Loring could rehearse today. I told him yes and asked him to remind me. Yesterday, for reasons no one understands, he told me she'd be at the stumble-through - maybe he didn't mean to say that but he most certainly did - I heard it and I said, "Wow, great news." Today, she shows up at three-thirty and I tell her no, the stumble-through is tomorrow. She's confused, I'm confused, and we have a nice chat and she leaves, deciding we can meet early before sound check. Fine. Then the MD shows up fifteen minutes later. He denies he told me the stumble-through but I can see on his face he knows he did. We called her but she was already too far away. But the most annoying thing is - even with the miscommunication, if he'd just damn well showed up on time there would have been no problem at all!