Forbidden Phoenix - Day 2
The abyss between page and stage is deep enough to hold all my revisions. At today's readthrough, I had a rude awakening. The second act just didn't hold together at all. The songs were good, but the story just sucked. I thought I had pretty well ruined the script with my last pass, and I was at a complete loss about what to do. When the director gave me notes, I just told him I didn't know what to do any more. There had been so many notes over the last six years, that I just lost the plot of the whole thing.
Well, we sat down for about 4 hours and just hammered through the beats of the second act. Thankfully, we found something that will work for now. I'm doing a full-on rewrite of the second act. It won't be pretty, but I have two weeks to workshop and revise and refine it. I have the first scene almost done. I'll polish it before I hit the sack, and then I'll crank up the machine tomorrow and try to hammer out the rest of the second act. It won't be pretty, but we'll have something to kick around and work. I'm pretty zonked right now and emotionally drained. And this is only Monday. Yeesh.