Saturday September 1 marked the day single tickets for the season went on sale to the general public. It was funny to arrive for rehearsal shortly before 10 am and find a line of folks outside the box office waiting to get the seats they desired.

There were also several folks hanging out, watching the videos on the sustainability cabinet. But their kid was apparently more fascinated by the “historiscope.”

Meanwhile, Joel was about to launch into staging Wilkommen, so Sarah Marie Hicks was stretching out:

And others hung out waiting for the work to begin.

I think I inadvertently threw Wade a curveball when I suggested that the Emcee might be a Parisian imported for the job, and that he might try it with a French accent. On the lunch break he came up to my office so we could hash out the implications of the dialect change, and to make sure (in his words) that he didn’t end up sound like “Lumiere” from Beauty and the Beast.