Yesterday, in the rehearsal before first preview, we did two hours of work notes and what everyone on this production refers to as an “Italian run”, or a speedthrough. I’ve never heard that term before. Apparently it traditionally is without blocking, but we did ours on stage. Camille went through the show in an hour and six minutes! The results were fantastic – our preview yesterday night ran at only 1:37.

The audience said “Shalom” back to Camille when we raised house to half at the end.

Aaron and I had a long talk about future workshopping – he’s asked me to try to take a stab at some more narrative text on the Passover project.