Although Eljon, Paul and I all met together last Friday, today was our official first rehearsal. In fact, the reason we were all together last Friday was to hold the auditions where we met and cast Paul. I’m very excited about both of our actors. In fact, there are many facets about this show that excite me.

We’re putting together A Good Day in less than two weeks, which is a moderately short time even for a twenty minute one-act. However, it’s thrilling because it’s going to make for tight and creative rehearsals with a fire under them. Also, our writer has been one of my best friends since high school and I used to read her screenplays and say, “Jane, PLEASE write a play so that I can direct it.”  Jane has a knack for writing believable dialogue and an eye for catching familiar, true-to-life details.

Today’s rehearsal was held at Paul’s apartment downtown on Eldridge Street. I’ve lived in New York all my life and have never heard of Eldridge Street, but I’ve apparently walked right past it for years. Eldridge is a nice little street right off Houston, and it only took me 20 minutes to get there from my place in Long Island City (granted, the V train was finally on my side).

His apartment had a nice open space area- enough space so that we could get some decent warm up stretching, and even running, in. It was convenient for us to rehearse in an apartment because that’s where this particular show takes place, so we barely had to improvise any props. It was a short rehearsal, only an hour today, but we got a lot accomplished. We were able to read through the show, run the show and talk through some joint backstory questions.

This whole process is going to be fun.