If you can do that quickly and with some sure-footedness, you'll probably come out all right. Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack.
Agents are in from Hollywood.
Your friends are there. If something doesn't work, everyone will know. There was no pressure to open right before the Tony Award deadline in order to get nominations. A tremendous amount of work was done during that first week. We had a snowstorm in New Haven, and nobody came.