Yesterday, Tina Connolly and Mary Crowell and I did our FIRST READ-THROUGH of our FIRST DRAFT.

The first thing Tina said was that I should play Lucy (Lucy Lumen of Lucid Theater, Theatre of the Underground…), and even though I tried to protest, I mean…

Who are we kidding? Of COURSE I wanted to play Lucy. And OF COURSE Tina knew that.

“It’s not like I’ve been anticipating this for weeks, casting it all in my head.”

She, of course, wanted to be the vampire Didier, and DIDN’T SHE ROCK IT!

We cast Mary as Mavis Day, Mr. Og, Az AND the stage directions. Of course, she’s also done recordings of all of her songs so far in that episode, which we played at the appropriate times.

One of our great discoveries was that, since this is going to be a radio play/podcast series, reading the stage directions out loud…