Greetings and happiest of New Year’s to you, dear benefactors, from shockingly chilly but still sunny southern California!! We are now into our second week of rehearsals and couldn’t be more thrilled with how things are progressing. Every one of our cast members is superbly talented and engaged with the material. Ryan O’Connell‘s complex orchestrations are turning out to be spell-bindingly sumptuous. Of course, we are constantly learning invaluable information about our script, ergo the inevitable rewrites and more rewrites…

As for the physical production which you so generously underwrote, the ambitious set is now under construction and we are currently working through in rehearsals how our awesome Nessie puppet will be manipulated by the cast to maximum effect. Nessie goes back to her maker next week to undergo the final stages of construction.

I will continue to keep you posted as we move closer to our world premiere!