I really love first readthroughs.  The cast meets each other, some for the first time and with others there’s an old familiarity.  We talk about the work, explore it at a very conceptual level.  We get to play with ideas as hearing the words makes it something suddenly very real; even having read the script several times, as director, that readthrough is a major turning point.  It seems so fresh.  Oh yeah, and the cast doesn’t hate me yet.

It is said that at least half of the director’s job is solely in the casting… “If you have a good script and you cast it well, it’ll be good on stage,” remarked directing great Alan Schneider.  ”If you don’t, it won’t.”  After tonight, I know this is going to be a great ride.  Thank you Cam, Derric, Joe, and Karen for your work tonight.  The real work is just beginning, and some parts of it are going to strain us – but the result is going to be electrifying, on an audience barely a few feet away.

Do not miss this production.