We've started our second week on act 1 yesterday. People were not quite as off book as Brad would have liked, but it wouldn't be a rehearsal process if that sort of thing didn't come up. Brad did some pretty cool things yesterday that I want to toss in my future director idea hopper. He had everyone react to Adam's monologue (that he would be giving to the torrie group) which seemed to help him and was fun for everyone else. This won't be in the show, but gives Adam a better feel for what is going on. Brad also encouraged going back through a scene and just trying it another way, even if the scene went well, just so we don't get stuck in a creative rut. The big success, in my opinion, is what happened on Irwin's second class scene. Before the scene had been tame and frankly boring. Brad more or less forced the boys to react to what Irwin was saying and it was SO much more interesting, important, and thankfully entertaining. Now, normally I'm all about doing things "organicly" (that god awful word) but this REALLY worked, and I will keep that in mind in my directing in the future. It was a real conversation between the boys and Irwin, though the boys had no lines.

Those are the big things from yesterday, but today is Tuesday...so that can only mean absolute brilliance.