Good news about the table reading; I didn’t get whacked. It looked like a bunch of good fellas when we were hanging outside of the office. With the loud voices and cursing, I swear I as in Little Italy in the 70s.
The reading itself, not so good. But at least we got an idea of what works and what doesn’t. A lot of the dialogue isn’t flowing. It seems to get jumbled in the mouths of the readers. And, as I’ve said many times, too many repetitions of lines and ideas.
Before the reading, the producer said to me that he finally read the ‘revised script’ and it needs work. I told him that I left the script as it was from the last time the writer sent it to me. He then told me that he is going to give the director and me more control over the story and script. This is what we’ve been waiting to hear since this little thing started. And he’s going to keep the writer out of it as much as possible. So the plan is for the director and me to go line by line, tearing the script down and building it back up. Hopefully, if we get it right, we’ll have a really good script to work from.
And we need a finalized version soon because the play is supposed to go up in three months. Otherwise, we can fuhgeddaboudit.
