Lots to do...

To:  "Carol" Cast
From:  John

There are lots of things to do tonight...first and foremost, we need to run the show in sequence...by doing so we get a sense of "a show" - a sense of "a story"...sequence is especially important to our Scrooge...he has a lot of lines and a lot of time on stage (never off)...he needs to feel the "flow"...

We should be adding the narrator tonight...aka - Charles Dickens...this will be fun...

I will need a few minutes to talk to the "crowd"...we need to find our little groups again...use more of the stage...be creative with "business"...

We will want to have the Cratchits use a real table and chairs...I think that will help make a little more sense of what is going on there...

Everyone needs to be out-of-book as much a possible (did everyone notice Scrooge did a wonderful job off-book on Monday - yeah, Al!!!)...also, lots and lots of projection of voices and faces - out to the audience...(by the way, everybody selling tickets?)

I could go on and on...the important thing here is that there is a rehearsal tonight...see you then...

PS...have you noticed a little excitement brewing in town?...I think a holiday is in the brew and I think there is a show being produced about this holiday...come, stir the brew...