First full week of rehearsals is over. It's absolutely amazing. The rehearsal room is set up with everything the actual set will have. Exact chairs. Even beer bottles with water in them, and a dumpster to toss them into. I feel like I've been working on this show for weeks, and its only been six days. Crazy. The actors are all really nice. And amazingly talented. This is the kind of theater process I've imagined for years. Actors who know what they're doing on the first day, so that together, the cast and directors and explore the text to its full potential.

And Emily Mann, the director of this show and artistic director of the theater, is amazing to watch. She starts everyday leading the cast through half an hour of yoga. Which not only warms everyone up physically, but mentally and emotionally for the work they're going to do throughout the day. Then, she guides, not forces, the whole process. A probing question there. Stopping an actor from planning ahead here. It's all so gentle, and organic that it doesn't feel like directing at all, but the play is most definitely taking on a distinct shape and structure. Like water smoothing stones in a river. I love it.

Tomorrow is my first big adventure. We get Monday's off, one of the actors in the show is doing a bit of stand-up at Stand-Up New York. And three of us interns are gonna take the train into Penn Station, then subway to 78th and Broadway. eeeeee! We're gonna have to cab it back to Penn Station to make the final train back to Princeton, but.. eh.. no worries.

Eventually I may have to actually look up all the people who ever told me to look them up if I was in New York. In the mean time, I'm gonna take Tom Wopat's advice... I'm gonna give myself time to Gawk at Penn Station.