Ten Reasons: a Musical Journey

Tonight we did a music rehearsal that went really well. We've only been rehearsing for about a week and a half, and already the tunes are almost show-ready. It's great to see how wonderful the cast is and how it's all coming together. Everyone's really in the groove of the show and making it come alive.

It's so weird to think that this thing that was in my brain (and Bobby, Blake, Jason, Andrew, Alan, Steven and Phillip's) even mere months ago is now a living breathing piece of theatre. As one of my friends said to me the other day, it's part of the canon now. It EXISTS. :) I hope I'm not repeating myself, but it's just so astonishing to me that this is happening, and at the same time, it feels perfectly normal.

The songs for this show are so very good. I just can't believe that they are as good as they are. I'm not saying that to discount the talent that is involved, I'm saying it because to have gone from just essentially a play that I wanted to make into a musical to having found SEVEN DIFFERENT people to write the music and to STILL have it come out feeling like one show feels like kismet. And victory. And perfect. Everyone's talent is so great that I'm not surprised in hindsight, but I'm sure that it could have gone differently, and I'm just so blessed that it didn't.

As I sit here on this hot June night, I'm sort of transported back to the days when I lived in Duluth...high school and college. Maybe it's because I'm reliving all of my old flames through this musical theatre journey in my show, but maybe it's also because I feel like my younger self again a little. I'm looking at this business and this career...this life with such open and hopeful eyes. I don't feel the emotional wear and tear of ten years in New York City. I feel so optimistic about where this show has come from and where it's going. I can't wait.

I'm also remembering those days of college because it was so FREAKING HOT today. If I was back in Minnesota, I'd drive quietly down to Park Point or The Deeps in Lester River and swim to cool down. I'd never been night swimming till we lived in Minnesota and there's something very refreshing about it...I think I'm going to go to sleep dreaming of dark water and cool rivers and the Big Lake.... :) Good night!