{"id":1295,"date":"2004-09-03T11:00:57","date_gmt":"2004-09-03T19:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2026-05-20T10:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:01:17","slug":"currently-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=1295","title":{"rendered":"Currently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sweeney_poster-01.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10731\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?attachment_id=10731\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sweeney_poster-01.jpg?fit=405%2C406&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"405,406\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Sweeney Todd at HART\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sweeney_poster-01.jpg?fit=405%2C406&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10731\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sweeney_poster-01.jpg?resize=405%2C406&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sweeney Todd at HART\" width=\"405\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sweeney_poster-01.jpg?w=405&amp;ssl=1 405w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sweeney_poster-01.jpg?resize=400%2C401&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sweeney_poster-01.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sweeney_poster-01.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYes, yes. This is my life now. I think that in the future I am going to refrain from directing shows when such a large is involved. It&#8217;s not that the cast isn&#8217;t talented. It&#8217;s not that they don&#8217;t do what I tell them to. It&#8217;s just hard to keep that many people focused and on task for a couple of hours each night. Rehearsals, to me at this point, really feel like barely controlled chaos. I go home and worry that things will never come together. I worry that we will run out of time. I worry that the show is gonna suck some major ass on opening night. Then I think about some of the shows that I have been in that have come together at the last minute. That leads me to believe that this one&#8217;s gonna be just fine. And, hey &#8230; if it does blow, it won&#8217;t be the first show in the history of theater that really sucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, yes. This is my life now. I think that in the future I am going to refrain from directing shows when such a large is involved. It&#8217;s not that the cast isn&#8217;t talented. It&#8217;s not that they don&#8217;t do what I tell them to. It&#8217;s just hard to keep that many people focused and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-theater"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-kT","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10733,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions\/10733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}