At Rehearsal...
I'm sitting here in the Sage Theatre, where we were lucky enough to be able to rent rehearsal space from the same place we'll be performing.
We just went through the first read-thru of the script, including a listen to each of the songs that will be in the show. It went great. It really was great to hear not only hear the script being read out by the people who will actually be performing it, but to--for the first time--hear it together, with all of the completed songs, in order.
When you write a thing like this, you worry, "is this as funny out loud as I think as it is in my head"? You wonder if the one-liners, the absurd songs, the rest all work. And then you get to experience a great first reading like today's, and you realize: this is going to work. It can't not work when you have the cast and crew laughing through the entire readthru like that. It also feels pretty damn good.
Also good to see was the first true complete score that says Lyrics by Gil Varod on it. Perhaps the best was when we took a break for the intermission and I walked over to Greg (musical director)'s piano station and found one song in full sheet music titled, Did Everybody Pee? It doesn't get much better than that.
By the way, have you seen the titles of our songs?
We just went through the first read-thru of the script, including a listen to each of the songs that will be in the show. It went great. It really was great to hear not only hear the script being read out by the people who will actually be performing it, but to--for the first time--hear it together, with all of the completed songs, in order.
When you write a thing like this, you worry, "is this as funny out loud as I think as it is in my head"? You wonder if the one-liners, the absurd songs, the rest all work. And then you get to experience a great first reading like today's, and you realize: this is going to work. It can't not work when you have the cast and crew laughing through the entire readthru like that. It also feels pretty damn good.
Also good to see was the first true complete score that says Lyrics by Gil Varod on it. Perhaps the best was when we took a break for the intermission and I walked over to Greg (musical director)'s piano station and found one song in full sheet music titled, Did Everybody Pee? It doesn't get much better than that.
By the way, have you seen the titles of our songs?
- You Can Do It All [The Fuzzy Duck Theme Song]
- One Upon a Time-ipus
- Mommy's Lullaby, and not Daddy's
- There Is No Man of Delphi
- A Little Complex
- It's Real Real Tough Just Bein' A Kid (But Coffee Will Get You Through)
- A Friend Is A Foe You Never Cared To Know
- Cause We're Greek [Wedding Song / Act One Finale]
- Did Everybody Pee? [Fuzzy Duck Reprise]
- What is it Like When Ya Get The Plague?
- Be Kind to the Blind
- My Lover Is My Husband Is My Son
- I'm So Glad I Could Share It With You