Les Pfutzenreuter is on board for musical director, and he's got an accompanist lined up, too. We're planning a "wine and cheese" production meeting for Fall 2006, to start getting everything lined up.
Some of the actors are rather more off-book than others, but we've still a couple of weeks to go. If I could strip them all of mannered speech, I would do so. It is too easy to cover up meaning with funny voices! Plus comprehension is lost, as we try to figure out what the actors are saying ... we hear noise, we see movement, but we can't understand!