I'm up, I'm up - maybe six hours of sleep because I got an e-mail I saw just before going to bed and I had to think about how to respond - from one of our Kritzerlanders, first time doing one of our shows, who's not feeling up to snuff and who asked if they could cut one song. What they've done, in fact, is so overextended themselves this week I'm sure they're in panic mode. But I've bent over backwards for the singer - they couldn't do the second rehearsal tomorrow so I said they could come in an hour ahead before the stumble-through (I will not let anyone do anything without their two rehearsals and the stumble-through). I'm glad I had a night to sleep on it, because my response would not have been so fun to read had I written it last night. So, I've told the singer our deal - that our shows are highly-structured, well planned and rehearsed, and to suddenly remove a song that serves a very specific purpose in a very specific spot in the show, kind of plays havoc with everything, actually. I told her if we have to we can cut her third song, but that I didn't think we should make that decision now - I said let's see how they're feeling on Saturday.
