Tuesday February 2nd - The First Presentation!

It was a pretty exciting night, I have to admit.  The presentation at Disney went very very well.  We presented the first 25 minutes for a packed house of about 250 people.  The cast was totally on their game, and it went off without a hitch.  We certainly were professional, well rehearsed, and the direction was clear as a bell.  Angela, in particular, was possibly the most 'on' I've ever seen her, which is saying a lot.  Kevin got tons of laughs, Ed was engaging as always, Jennifer had her act so together you'd never know she was new (and she sang the heck out of her song, too) and Tod was absolutely adorable. And Cindy, of course, played perfectly.

The panelists, Stephen Schwartz, Jason Alexander and Brendan Milburn were all very gracious and had some interesting things to say.  Jason was perhaps the most negative of the three; he was put off by the presentational nature of the show (which is most evident in the first 25 minutes of the show, and gradually fades to non-existant by the show's end.)  Brendan seemed to like the show the most (in fact, he jumped in on more than one occasion to disagree with Jason.)  Stephen was somewhere between the two; appreciating the show for what it is and also conjecturing as to what it might additionally be.

Cindy and I will not be making any immediate changes to the show based on this presentation; we don't want to rush into something without lots of time to ponder; however we will likely consider some of their suggestions for our next draft.

Our fan club president, Chris Smith, helped out by taking photos and running the videocam, so I will have some archival footage.  When I have time, I will load some footage onto youtube and some more photos onto facebook.  Tomorrow it's back to Disney where we will take a look at the work of another team and I'll get to relax while their work is assessed.  For now, I'm going to bed!