Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to another summer of LIVE BLOGGING!  So, without further ado . . . .

6:12 PM:  After several unsuccessful login attempts, the live blog effort will be abandoned for the time being.  We will just use the old Microsoft Word with cut and paste later . . . .

6:13 PM:  It’s a beer rehearsal.  When mobile phones are lost in the Atlanta airport, search parties will be organized in three to five days. 

6:14 PM:  Barefoot in the Park rehearsal is beginning. 

6:15 PM:  Eugene O’Neill is hilarious, and probably who Neil Simon was channeling for the Telephone Man.

6:17 PM:  Tim/Thomas equals Rosencrantz/Guildenstern

6:18 PM:  With all these beats and beatlets, we will be able to challenge Dr. Dre and Lil Jon for rap supremacy.

6:23 PM:  Taking the cuddle cab to snuggle-bunny village.  Or nuzzles.

6:27 PM:  Jayce and Jen are flinching back from microscopic flying insects. 

6:28 PM:  “Tonight, tonight.”  Quick quiz:  Does that song reference West Side Story or Phil Collins-led Genesis?

6:33 PM:  Liz channels Tom Hanks from “Money Pit.”

6:36 PM:  The first time, in this rehearsal process, that we have heard the phrase, “Mr. Grumpy-Pants.”

6:38 PM:  Most of these beat/beatlet titles end up referencing songs.  It’s like Karaoke Hour in here.

6:47 PM:  What Mama Needs!

6:49 PM:  Looking into the feasibility of adding a drum kit to the productions for rim shot purposes.  Sort of punch up the jokes, as it were.

6:51 PM:  Jayce looks askance.

6:54 PM:  Jayce looks askance, again.  Then, rolls his eyes.

6:59 PM:  Lawyers like a different kind of booty.

7:02 PM:  7.5 minute break. 

7:05 PM:  We have login!  And now, the blogging can be absolutely live!

7:11:  And we’re back to work.  In other words, talking for another fifteen to twenty minutes about everything other than the play.

7:15:  There will likely be a belching contest soon.

7:15:  And we’ve started singing "Makin’ Whoopee," followed immediately by "Strangers in the Night."  

7:16:  "I’ve still got my fork over here, Tromsness."  

7:22:  Italian-American Reconciliation connections:  The Count of Monte Cristo and P. J. Clarke’s.

7:24:  Do they give college degrees for a major in Spelling?  

7:25:   Gratuitous Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. allusion!

7:32:  Gratuitous Darryl Zanuck allusion!

7:41:  Who needs consonants, anyway? 

7:43:  "It’s the skank of the evening!"

7:46:  Gratuitous Duncan Hines allusion!

7:49:  Lots of quality work getting done, here.  Very exciting.

7:54:  Barefoot is winding down now; getting ready to start with the Beyond Therapy cast at 8:00.

8:12:  Longish gap as we are resetting the stage, moving tables around, getting set up.  It’s a lesser call this evening, Jared and Jenn working their scenes together, organically.

8:16:  Jared gets an H-minus for not doing his homework.

8:20:  Jenn’s foot neuroses get the better of her once again. 

8:23:  The Survivor challenge of the first scene:  find one more place to stand up.  Each.  Who will win immunity?  

8:32:  The Greenville Drive are quite loud.

8:36:  Kathy Griffin is coming to the Peace Center.  This is important, for some reason.  

8:42:  "I totally pulled something.  Don’t touch me."  –Jenn

8:57:  Never underestimate the importance of stretching between scenes.  Especially the lower back.

9:22:  Crackpot, crockpot, it’s all one.

9:31:  Just spent some time reading through the live blogs from last summer.  Pretty freaking hilarious.  People in theatre with time and technology make a dangerous combination.

9:44:  "It was like a Ben Stiller movie, just like my wedding."  –Traysie Amick

9:49:  "I can’t do sexy without injuring myself."  –Jenn Goff

9:50:  And that’s about all for this evening.  Only 30 days until Barefoot and Beyond!