Dido and Aeneas Update

From the director's desk:

We had our first rehearsal last Tuesday. (Well, okay, we've been rehearsing music for almost two months...) What I meant was, we had our first BLOCKING rehearsal last Tuesday. I thought it went well. For most of the cast, this was the first time that they had seen each other. Perhaps new friendships were made? I don't know. I was too busy working on staging the suicide to notice. Yes. Yes, Dido will kill herself at the end. She's not just going to die of a broken heart. That's lame. We have a sword that she will stab herself with. (Well, hopefully not really, it'll just be pretend. I hope.)