And on and on it goes. Now another actress is dropping out because she says she didn't know the commitment was for rehearsals every night. Never mind that it stated that clearly on her audition sheet, never mind that she agreed to it if we'd work out her ongoing two-nights a week work conflict - we bent over backwards to do exactly that, changing our off-night to her work night, and starting earlier on her second work night so she could leave and get to her job. But when you do that, then that door just keeps getting pushed and pushed and pushed. I'm sure if Doug went to her and said why throw away all the work you've done - tell us what the issues are NOW that you didn't tell us THEN, I'm sure she'd say she has to miss four or five more rehearsals and I'm walking away from this if that's the only way we continue. But if we have to find someone new that means I've got to do a bunch of work all over again and lose even more time. It's completely infuriating - and since they've asked me to direct a show there next year in this slot, I will not even consider it unless every actor I cast signs a paper saying with the exception of listed conflicts they will not have any other conflicts and will be committed to the show from beginning to end. I so don't want to even go to the theater tomorrow because now I have to most likely replace this actress, still find another actress, and potentially replace a performer who can't remember two words of one line or lyric - that decision will be made on Friday, but replacing three people means I'm gonna lost two days of run-throughs.
