Mastery includes efficiency

What is striking to me about these rehearsals is the master director/master-creative-team-who-have-worked-together-for-years efficiency. A lot gets done, without much fuss. We've had music, live sound effects, and singing since day one. A day of read-through, a day of text-work, and in two days the whole first act is staged. Early. We got out an hour early yesterday, because we had finished the act, gone back and run & touched a few places that needed it, and were done.