Jimmer Bolden as Archie George
Exhausted tonight after another long rehearsal for Now and Then a Hero. We spent the first half working individually with Jimmer and Jen, letting each of them have some more chances to work on their songs and get used to the structure. Both are doing well. Then we had a full run through (we skipped one song) which was about 93 minutes.
Definitely had some real breakthroughs tonight. Jen is finding her character voice of Joanne and is excited with the process. David Holmes, who has been doing double duty at ANMT, rehearsing for two readings at once, really started to settle in to his roles tonight at last. His commanding voice was on-point tonight, and I'm excited for an audience to hear him on these songs. And Jimmer is so strong on his songs that I get goosebumps at every rehearsal. Unfortunately, we chose to skip them last night and tonight, leaving him a bit confused by the transitions having never rehearsed them! We'll have to solve that tomorrow.
Tomorrow night is our last chance to pull things together. Tonight I'm not sending any notes at all... just letting the show settle in for everyone. That way, too, I can get to bed at a reasonable hour and get some sleep!