First off, it was just a beautiful day today in Weston (as is evidenced by the open doors of the rehearsal room a few posts below...) That's enough to start any day right, but the day didn't disappoint.
After a little bit more blocking, we were able to run the first 45 minutes of the show straight through this afternoon (sans the prologue, to be staged on Saturday.) And it is looking so wonderful. It's so wonderful to get to continue the trend of smart and thoughtful and giving people working on our project - everyone involved is so smart and thoughtful and giving and open and professional and every other wonderful thing you associate with the best of musical theater.
The most exciting part of the day for me came at the end, though, when we staged a song called "I Can't Wait." For those of you who've followed the show for a while, it replaces "Knock Me Up" as the penultimate song of the first act. While we love "Knock Me Up" (it was the third song written for the show before we had characters or a story, even) we found that the moment needed a little more gravity. So while we were in residence at CAP21's Writer's Co-op in February we tackled a new song while retaining the original bridge ("Don't Look At Me.") The song's been in our pocket ever since. We hadn't even heard it sung in full until we got here last week and it was such a relief and triumph today to see it work so well. It's a very tough moment emotionally - with the girls all trying to get pregnant and stay emotionally detached - and Joe and the actors hit the nail on the head. The staging is thrilling and the vocals from the girls are achingly beautiful. I'm so grateful to them all for going there for us in this moment so intensely (so intensely that we rewarded ourselves by calling it a night a little early and then eating delicious nachos... Like you do.)
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