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Rehearsal from the other night was really actually very good. Rah rah speech at the beginning, lots of energy - nearly the whole cast was there. We learned music, we staged a fairly large establishing scene, and I got a bunch of my range back just from singing with lots of support. I haven't really sung since the end of June, see.

Tonight, rehearsal felt clumsy and bad. It was frustrating to hear actors flub lines we've been rehearsing since July - the same 30 pages of material, dead slow and tired-sounding. I tried to enter with purpose, and I put extra vim and vigor into the edges of every intention, but it fell into this weird abyss of actor kludginess. It was a smaller subset of us - the President's cronies and the wives, and instead of efficiency because of a smaller, tighter ensemble, people just seemed to get lazy.

This dialogue is sharp and fast and very very 1930's. A lot of short, decisive statements, a lot of lines that start out, "Say, ..." It's goofy and patter-riffic, and we added clumps of molasses and rocks to it until we couldn't move.

I left feeling annoyed and down. The same 30 pages we've been rehearsing since July. What the hell?