The reading was most interesting and VERY instructive to me. Two songs will be cut entirely, that's for sure - they just don't work at all. Both are good songs but both just stop the show cold and not in a good way. I found the first act structure very sound and it just needs a couple of things flipped around and some song set-ups. Act two was the problem - once I remove the two songs then I can concentrate on the structure and try to get it right. One other song I definitely want in the show but it isn't right yet and I've asked those writers to take another pass at it. The sketches seem fine, and Doug's monologue is really fun but way too long and repetitious, so that's going to have to be trimmed. I will say that the end of act two, the last few things, are really good and powerful. So, work to be done and I'm hoping we can do it in the next two weeks.
