Back from an interesting rehearsal. Notes took a while and we didn't get started till an hour in, so we only did acts one and two - it was better tonight and we had some semblance of stage lighting, which was great. The set is looking really good. But I was unhappy with two staging bits - one for technical reasons (the murder) and then the end of act two, which I'd blocked poorly. We fixed that first and then I attended to the murder. Due to the mechanical gag and how it works with the trench coat I had to simply rethink the way the victim was falling and I ended up doing what the movie did, having him fall on his back - so much more effective and I'm having the actor pause a bit as if the scissors is going in further as he hits the floor. Creepy and so much better than what we had.
