[first rehearsal]

1 rehearsal down, many more to go. Like I said earlier today in my post, tonight was the first rehearsal/Meet & Greet. Following an Actors Equity meeting at 6 (Before every show starts rehearsals, all of the union actors/stage managers have a meeting with only themselves to go over some business activities, pick a deputy, etc), we all gathered together at 6:30. Our director (SpeakEasy's own Artistic Director, Paul Daigneault), gave a passionate speech about the reasons he wanted to do the show and his ideas about how to play characters based on the actors who originated the roles. Our designers then got up and spoke about their ideas and we all got to look at a model of the set. Like everything in this show, simplicity goes a long way, but it is going to look great.

Following the Meet & Greet, the cast started learning music with musical director Will McGarrahan (also in the show as Larry, the musical director). The cast will learn all the music over the next couple of days and put it all together for a first read through on Friday evening. There is nothing more exciting, in my opinion, than the start of rehearsals.

Now presenting the cast of the Boston Premiere of [title of show]...
(From left to right) Joe Lanza (Hunter), Amy Barker (Heidi), Jordan Ahnquist (Jeff), and Val Sullivan (Susan).