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Before I get into the play, a few things...

Top Chef still isn't off the hook for that stupid two minute thing in between commercials. It just means more commercials.

Gran Torino is totally worth seeing even though Clint is the only one who can act in the movie. What makes me sad is knowing that there are great, subtle scripts out there by the dozens. But you can't have those get made the way they are without having the juice Eastwood has. I see movies that had such potential that you can almost feel how they were ruined by rewrites.

If the Pink Floyd Experience is coming through your town, go see them. With a $2.5 million light show, it's worth it. The music is spot on, the atmosphere. Dude.

So tonight is the first official rehearsal. For some reason I scheduled the real first rehearsal during the Superbowl. Oops. So that didn't happen.

What we've got done so far is to have the opportunity to have the cast sit around and talk through the script. We've worked backstories, made connections, and gave everyone an opportunity to see what everyone else is doing. It was really important to me to do this. I always feel that this process happens at the last possible moment in rehearsals, when it's kind of late to make any significant changes to the show. The first time around folks seemed a little nervous, unsure of what we were actually doing sitting around and not rehearsing. Eventually we all warmed to it and conversations started happening. The second time around we jumped right in. My hope, or my belief, is that those few times we had to just talk without needing to move forward will give everyone a better idea about how we're going to do this, and how I want to work.

We'll see starting tonight, I guess.