Posted on August 19, 2012 at 10:43 pm

I’m having a moment. I stood on the stage of the Apollo Theatre tonight where they were loading in the set for the first musical I’ve ever directed, the musical that opens in three days on the West End with a group of young genius pain-in-the-ass performers that I love very much and a team of designers and staff that has been so unbelievably supportive of my “vision” (whatever that may be) and so gifted at translating it into their own amazing artistic languages, and I thought of the ridiculous journey of this ridiculous show that has brought me such joy and pride, and it was all a little overwhelming. To all the 13iacs from 2004 until forever, we’re taking the next step now. Something about being suddenly a stranger…

19 August 2012, on the stage of the Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Ave.