We are now exactly 100 days away from opening night for HAiR 2007 in San Jose, the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the birth of the first true rock musical. As our ad says, it was before Jesus Christ Superstar, before Tommy and LONG LONG before Rent!
It is hard to believe but we are making definite progress. Last's nights auditions didn't bring out much of a crowd, but hopefully tonight we will get in a few more who didn't make it earlier. And we keep hoping to discover/find/stumble upon a Hud. Otherwise we may need to go out and hire one at great cost, which is not the best thing to have to do for an amateur (well, semi-professional) musical. People seem to be reading this blog (which is exciting unto itself!) so please help us, if you know anyone who is even CLOSE to what we need, get them to give us a call!
I think I will leave the countdown on the blog title line for the rest of the headlong rush to the finish line. It will keep us all aware of how the clock and calendar will crowd us if we don't stay ahead of things.
100 days seems like such a long time, in one sense, yet anyone who has ever been through this process knows how fast that much time can dissipate and if things don't get done on schedule, it can adversely effect the end result. We will all try to keep to our schedules and budgets.
We will announce callbacks tomorrow morning (no need to wait until next week since we are almost 100% sure of all the callback decisions, barring some unexpected arrival tonight). We will also dismiss some people tomorrow, always one of the sadder moments of being a director. Everyone who came out tried their best and they should not look on this as a failure, but no matter how many times I say that, someone always either is very sad or angry about the decision. I can actually handle the anger more easily than the sadness.
If anyone has comments, please feel free to post them. I encourage it!
Thanks,
Jon Rosen
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