I'm up, I'm up - a bit over nine hours of sleep, which I guess I needed. I awoke to news that I've been hired to direct a new musical - it's really kind of a glorified workshop that's not open to the public when it plays its two performances - but it is, in fact, a full production with sets, lighting, costumes, a band, a full Equity paid cast. Kay is choreographing (although there's not much to choreograph at this point) and she recommended me because she knew the other directors they'd talked to and didn't relish working with any of them. It's a really difficult piece because it's VERY dark - not the kind of thing I do, really, but that was what got me the job - because I told them I could only approach the material positively because I think the audience has to feel not relentlessly bombarded with dark. They liked that. They're first time authors, so I can probably be of help in terms of smoothing out the obvious problems. It all happens pretty quickly - casting end of March, rehearsing mid-April opening end of May and, in fact, when it opens I'll already be rehearsing Dial M for Murder - but the schedule works because these rehearsals are days and end at five and the Dial M rehearsals don't start till seven.
