PTE provided the staff and cast with a nice pizza lunch today, with cake for the people with September birthdays and gifts for people celebrating milestone years working at this fine place. So we had a good time sitting around the big table. Alana was happy because 650 of the 1000 receipt books required for the show had arrived (sorry about the props by the way). They look like receipt books but they're blank and after the run is over, will be given to everyone to use as scratch pads or little tiny sketchbooks. We quickly discovered a small error on the front of the books, and from that moment, the conversation played out very much like the dialogue in the play. " Did you see this? Who proofed this?" Bob - just to keep the drama going like a good director should - tried to make everyone believe that Brian (the designer) was going to be really mad about it. Turns out the finger of blame is pointing right at Brian himself. For added entertainment value, this particular error prompted a series of wisecracks about male sexual performance drugs. What was the error? Well, I can't tell you that because it would spoil all your fun trying to find it when you come to the play. If you spot the error, you win a little tiny sketchbook.
Spent most of the day on that same benighted scene I've been trying to fix for months. Think it's maybe 10 to 15 percent better: we'll find out tomorrow. At the end of the day today I had the pleasure of watching a run of Act Two. The boys made me cry. And here I thought my days of boys making me cry were behind me.
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