Salad night, tonight. I had a meeting after work so didn’t have too much time before rehearsal. I ended up dashing to the drive-through at Wendy’s to get a Mandarin Chicken Salad and a small Frosty and hustling back to the rehearsal space. We had a productive rehearsal — my actors are starting to get ‘off-book‘, which means that they’re learning their lines and relying less and less on their scripts. Once they’re more completely off-book, we’ll be able to concentrate on character and interaction. Rehearsals are going well; I think the show is shaping up nicely.

Rehearsals are starting to heat up a bit for DINNER WITH FRIENDS, the show I’m directing for Falcon Theater, which opens on March 31, 2006.

On rehearsal nights, I have a 2-hour break between the end of my workday and the beginning of rehearsal, so I don’t go home. I usually hang around the office and do some extra work, go get dinner, and come back in time to get our rehearsal space set up.

Tonight, I went for dinner at BLUE GIBBON, an Asian restaurant near my office. I enjoyed their Sesame Cold Noodles and Steamed Dumplings a lot. They have what is likely my favorite Sesame Cold Noodles in this city!