Sometimes a Miracle Happens

Sometimes during the rehearsal process, a show that seemed filled with fits and starts suddenly comes together all at once and lights up the auditorium like rays of sunlight bursting through an iron-gray sky. Tonight was one of those moments. Suddenly there was a buoyant sense of energy that lifted the emotions higher than they had been before. The cast became a unit, supporting each other in every moment, and those positive thoughts made its way through the audience and made them part of the unit.

I let the cast go home early tonight, because they had done the show the way it needed to be done. Leave well enough alone.

Saturday, we start technical rehearsals, and an entirely different element -- lights, costumes, sound -- will come on the scene. For a few days, all the new things will set the production back while the actors integrate it all again. But then all the elements will come together as we near opening night.

For now, I think I'll enjoy tonight's glimpse of what could be.