My Daisy is brilliant. I am so PROUD of her. (A mother can brag -- yes?)

We got there at 9:30 am for rehearsal yesterday so she'd be comfortable with her surroundings and reacquaint herself with the rehearsal location. I took her for a nice walk before she had her call time of 10. At 10 she practiced obeying Marissa, who plays Dorothy. We fine tuned some of the cues - Daisy never liked being picked up so we worked it out so she does not back away by timing her treats differently with the scooping up of Toto. Success!

Then we rehearsed the scene where Dorothy sings Over the Rainbow to Toto. Good thing I will only be in the wings. It brought tears to my eyes and that was only rehearsal. Daisy did everything right again, including a few long down stays including sitting on the tractor, which for rehearsal was a chair.

She practiced Munchkinland scenes too. We were practicing the scene where Dorothy meets Professor Marvel, right before the tornado. When Dorothy called Toto in the scene, Daisy ran over and did what she was supposed to do on cue -- even though she was resting (I give her a lot of breaks and playtime between work and scenes)- right though to the end of the scene. She did absolutely everything right today. It was only her third formal rehearsal. They were rehearsing and then they were going to add her to the final run through or two.

The musical director has done over 12 productions of Oz. He was telling me today that he's rarely seen them use just one dog. One does the "stay" parts and another might do the follow parts and sometimes a third might do the Dorothy scenes like Over the Rainbow. For the Broadway production, they had 4 Toto's.

I love the fun that is in the rehearsal environment. The director, Shauna is very warm and happy and it comes through that she loves what she does. It's infectious. How can you not be happy when you are listening to Merry Old Land of Oz?

My Daisy does it all! Did I say I was VERY PROUD of her? A lady who is working on something with the production brought her 4 month only puppy with her in a crate and wanted to know how I trained Daisy for the role. I had to laugh because the answer was they she is my pet. WE went to obedience class at PetSmart. She's not a professionally handled dog. I was asked by a friend what I would do if they wanted to use her for another production. Apparently they are doing Oz in Florida and the dog is ruining the show. Daisy is having an awful lot of fun. She so comes alive when she is doing the parts. I guess it would depend more on the particulars.