Look Here A New Nazirah!

Today was a very full Road to Qatar! day starting at 11am with our director, choreographer and designers gathering at David Krane's sumptious apartment so we could go through the script and chart where how the set moves and functions. We then went through to tell what little and big changes David and I made since last year in Dallas. All this was fun and exciting and then later it became clear that I still had some work to do on Nazirah. Ah, poor Nazirah...the lone female in the cast of five...the Lebanese Valley Girl who is an ace translator who becomes Vice president in change of production for the not very competent producer Mr. Mansour...Nazirah who gets a crush on Michael's biceps, despite his sexual orientation. That Nazirah. She is actually the antithesis of what our heroes expect of a Middle Eastern woman. She is not traditional, she is rather Western-ized and modern and although she longs for the glamour of New York penthouses in the sky and London's West End, she eventually takes her new found show biz abilities and produces a musical back in Lebanon. She is finally coming into focus. She is still the ditzy zany young lady with a big bust that tries to appeal to all the men around her, but now she has some growth and fun and so her big number Nazirah's in London is changing to reflect that. She loves being in London because of the shopping, the empowerment, she is taking producing lessons from Cameron MacIntosh. Nazirah's in London and she has a Gold charge card! Harrod's watch out!