Back from a really great show - everyone was in tip-top form. Little Peyton was adorable, but not quite as on top of the song as she was at sound check and the stumble-through, which is a really valuable lesson we'll talk about in a few days. She ate too close to the show - I think that was the real problem. But she still socked it over - Richard played a wrong chord up top that didn't help anything, and she went up on one line at the end, but the song works great and she'll be great in the show. Our replacement guy did a fantastic job, although he was making up lyrics to Come to the Supermarket like crazy - no one really knew. Shannon Warne and Jean Louisa Kelly were on fire, and Daniel Bellusci did a great job. We ended up with a pretty good crowd, most of them last-minute reservations. In the first third of the show I found the audience a little hard to figure - laughs, yes, but I'm not sure this was a musical theatre savvy crowd. But when I got to the patter for A Chorus Line I had a laugh in there about the film version - that of course you'd hire a Brit whose last film was Ghandi to direct a quintessentially Broadway story. Several got it but not enough and I just went off the page and began a series of improvised Ghandi lines that garnered huge laughs and that became a running gag throughout the show, completely out of nowhere - the kind of stuff I love. Anyway, it was a wonderful evening. The Shermans were there and that's always great. He's read the first half of GEE and loves it - he, like Jane, is really taking his time and savoring it.