Wow, last night we teched Part II. Got out fairly early, around 11 (which is nothing compared to "Follies" last year, which lasted until 2 a.m.). But we had a few major crises. One of our girls, Katy has the flu, and her mother said she might be ready by Monday. MIGHT. DUde, we open on Tuesday. Man, we're all kinds of worried. We re-cast all of her roles, just in case. I took over her pupetteer work; not too hard. I'm so excited about the show. I'm wondering if everyone else is, though. I mean, I'm having tons of fun working on it, but I can't help but get that feeling that it might not be that much fun on the other side of the curtain. There's this little pit-of-my-stomache worry that the show is like "Kiss Me, Kate"........in that it's a show that people do a good job at performing, but the subject matter sucks. The problem with "KMK" was that you didn't care about the characters; whether Lilli and Fred got together or not didn't matter because no one cared - however, we did a pretty good job performing it. We did a lot of different things visually, and we had good talent, yada yada. But even when I saw it at "T.U.T.S.", I was like, "yeah, this is good, but it doesn't do anything for me. I could leave in the middle of the show, never knowing how it ends, and I wouldn't care." I worry about "Pericles" in the same way. Visually, the show is stunning. We have amazing costumes and great sets, and all these puppets and shadows and stuff. But I wonder if that's the only thing that makes the show interesting. Hhhmm.....stuff to ponder. Anyway, yeah, what a reason to come and see the show! we open in like, 3 days. Madness, I say, madness.

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