Why, thank you, kelly!
Jim Dale is amazing to work with-- and the stories he tells! Just a note: one of the dances he does (after "The Song Of The Inadequacy Of Human Striving", when Carlos, me and Tiger Brown and his mugs on stage right glide off) is a version of a dance that Jim's father taught him and was, in turn, taught by his father. Jim worked with Aszure Barton to incorporate it into the song. So, what you are seeing is a dance that has roots in the 1830's-- or even earlier! A dance that originated when people jumped up onto makeshift stages in boozy beerhalls...
Nellie is an absolute lunatic and lots of fun. We both recently bought ukeleles, so we are thinking of starting an all ukelele orchestra.
Cyndi is a jewel. She has such boundless energy that she gets me exhausted. And she has showed me a bit about the technical aspects of singing, vocal excercises and the scientific reasons for such-- a smart cookie! She has a bit of a Dietrich obsession-- which is very apparent from some of the costuming-- Isaac hooked into this when designing her look for the brothel. Don't forget, her first band was called "Blue Angel".
Yes, the show is a bit polarizing. I think a lot of people cannot get past the fact that everything is so non-gender-specific, and that Mackie sleeps with everyone-- male, female, T/G-- using sex as he uses everything else-- to gain power and control.