I crawled through an hour and a half of traffic so that I could arrive early to shoot some pictures for the press kit. The set was loaded in this past weekend, so we used this evening to work through the first act, adjusting blocking now that we have real platforms to stand on instead of imaginary ones. I have a real ugly cross in my scene with Ruth that looks even worse with the platforms; I hope we can take the time to clean it up. Or maybe I'll just have to find a way to adjust.

We're all finding ways to adjust to Andy's new issue. He tore up the ACL and PCL in his right knee about 10 days ago, through no fault of his own, in an audition for another show that went horribly wrong. He was on crutches for a while, and has graduated to a cane. I think he's got surgery scheduled for this week. So his blocking has changed, and he's not responsible for moving chairs around. He can still manage the bit where Len wraps a blanket around Ruth's shoulders: Andy just squats into the cane like it's one of those folding seats, and then does the blanket thing. We've also frosted Earl and James's dialogue with a some invective that is definitely not disabled-friendly. Instead of Wilson's "You're letting that simple squirt walk all over you," it's now, "You're letting that simple cripple walk all over you."

posted: 11:46:41 PM