April 27, 1998

Rehearsal today went well. Long, but well. We worked with some costumes, sound and orchestra today. The lights are being hung and focused. It's so hard to tell exactly what kind of a show you have at this point, just a few days before opening. It appears everything has or will shortly fall into place. All we can do now is have faith in what we have and trust.

It's 1:30 in the morning and I still have to take out the trash and read the last chapter in my television history book before I go to sleep. Then I'll get about six hours of sleep, if I'm lucky, go out and get the new Ragtime original cast recording, go to Television History class, and then go off to more Woods rehearsals.

- mark

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