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The issues of the flashback being introduced in the beginning to clarify it for the audience, plus the use of the projections of the reporter at the beginning were all discussed at length at the post-performance audience seminar after the first full runthrough.

The show was originally formatted that way (linear with it being indicated clearly at the get-go that it was all seen in flashback) but later changed to make it non-linear.

The creative staff said that they would consider rewriting it again to make it clearer since so many in the audience maintained that they didn't "get" that the whole show was a flashback - and that the entire reporter interview in the asylum with Zelda (which constituted the entire show) took place in the one day (the day of the fire which took her life).

There was additional confusion that the man shown in the film typing at the beginning and end was not Jarrod Emick - and since we didn't get to see the reporter til much later there was much confusion. One audience member stated that he thought maybe Jarrod wasn't available for the day the film was made and so a substitute actor was used...since many thought the typist was supposed to be F. Scott Fitzgerald (it was the reporter, not Fitzgerald).

Throughout the seminar the cast and creators asked for a showing of hands from the audience about issues such as this so they could get a fair reading of audience reaction - and what people understood and didn't understand about this show.

It is still being changed as they go along.

By next Sunday, it will be interesting to see what the show is like for the final Lenape performance.