I really buckled down, Winsocki and did a rough assemblage of the LA show - it's taken five long hours but at least it's in some semblance of a structure - I"m still on the fence about certain things, especially the opening of act two - I have a really strong and long dance number there (a 60s pastiche), but I think it may be of better use a little later in the act as an energy boost - I can open instead with something softer - it's funny and charming, a reprise of a song we hear in act one - it might be cute and I can go into a good song from there, and just save the dance thing for a few scenes. We'll see how I feel about it - not a decision I have to make right now. I managed to find a decent place for everything, but I think I'll do what I always do and when I'm staging and watching things, I'll probably start switching things into alternate orders to see if I like them better. But, other than the act two open, maybe I'll get lucky and it will work. The structure always seems to move us forward and I don't think any of it becomes predictable. I've put the Bruce Vilanch sketch as a place holder, but I will have no idea if it's going to work there until I see what it actually is. I've also asked Doug to shorten his six page monologue - I already suggested a quarter of a page worth of cuts, which he agreed with, so now he'll do his own pass at shortening further. I have a splitting headache now because when I do this kind of thing I concentrate and focus so hard it's just headache-inducing.
