Back from a good rehearsal. We did run the show, but I told Sami to take it easy on her voice. She's finally begun to get through the monologues where she was consistently going up on the same lines - I think there were only two spots where she fumfered, otherwise it was all correct. And she really is getting the pacing of the show down, too. Still hard work ahead on the storytelling aspect, and we're going to try a new approach to the start of rehearsals. She's been sleeping in the car and her mother has refused to get her up until three minutes before rehearsal. Obviously this results in a bad mood and groggy person and we can't have it anymore - I've gone on about it for weeks, including this morning, but our stage manager came up with a good idea of her call being fifteen minutes earlier than our start time. At that point, the stage manager will take her and get her warmed up so she's ready to go at our proper start time. If that works, everything will flow easier and be much more fun.
