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First rehearsal for Chicago. One thing I've learned about my character already: he talks fast when he's nervous. It doesn't say so in the script, but it's heavily implied by how much dialogue I've got to deliver in the space of a three-bar vamp.

I'm playing Amos Hart. This news has produced a reaction of "Yes, thought so" from pretty much everyone who knows me, knows the show, and knew I was auditioning. Including me, to be fair.

So far the plan is not to do the accents, which seems a bit odd for a show with such a specific setting, but I have sympathy for the director's viewpoint, which is that using our own accents is less likely to go wrong (or likely to go less wrong) than an amateur company aiming for American accents and missing.