Cereal and tea for breakfast that I bought at the Safeway, then off to the first Patience rehearsal (though I’m not called ’til the afternoon, I wanted to see how things were). The director, Pamela, is doing some really neat things, and the other principals and chorus all sound great…this is going to be a lot of fun. Wonder off to Spring Gardens and type up the first batch of diary notes. At lunch Jonathan and I make copies of The Zoo as we contemplate auditioning for the festival production that goes up the day before Patience. Another good rehearsal in the afternoon, and I start reworking a verse of ‘A Heavy Dragoon’ as an encore. Dinner with two Savoynet ladies who did ‘Brush Up Your Gilbert’ at the Savoynet cabaret, then an absolutely incredible Yeoman from Trent Opera. All were pretty awesome, but the Jack Point and Wilfred Shadbolt were absolutely stunning. I cried at the end.