Hello Week 7

I'm actually quite impressed with myself. I would say that this is the longest I've ever kept up with a blog. Even when I think I have nothing to tell you I still manage to come up with something. However, this week is NOT one of those weeks. This week I know exactly what I want to tell you about. I want to talk about The Final Battle.

The Final Battle is a full length musical about the last 200 pages of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling. I wrote it, along with my friend Lena Gabrielle, and the show was performed at the Infinitus Harry Potter conference in Orlando Florida last July. It was one of the greatest experiences of my life, and I get to do it all over again.

This year The Final Battle will be performed in Orlando at LeakyCon2011, and I couldn't be more excited. We've kept a lot of the same cast, crew, and orchestra, and I just today finished adding all the new people to our group. Rehearsals have begun and set design is moving and I'm overall just getting incredibly excited to work on all of this again. It's true that it's a TON of work, and at some points I'm sure I'll be seriously stressed out, but it will be worth it. The people that I get a chance to work with are all incredibly talented and their willingness to go on this crazy journey with me still amazes me sometimes. After all, it isn't everyday that someone asks you to create a musical almost exclusively through Skype and two days of in person rehearsals.

Every single time I log into gmail or onto Skype for rehearsals I'm reminded how much I love the people that are involved in this show. It's so wonderful to just get together and chat about nothing, and seeing them at rehearsal in Orlando last year was like arriving at a room full of your best friends. A project like this forces you to become close to people and it's a testament to the strength of our group that all that stress produced close friendships rather than arguments or rivalries. I was sad to leave them all after Infinitus, and even sadder to have some of them unable to return for LeakyCon, but I'm thrilled to be able to work with a lot of them again.

Just like last year, I expect this journey to be anything but easy. However, despite all the hardships I also expect it to be fun, exciting, exhilarating, uplifting, and full of lasting friendships. Everyone involved is wonderful and I absolutely love them all!

Till I next fail at failure.