Giving up never did anything for anybody. I just figured, Well, this project didn’t work out—on to the next. Plus, I still had a way to go on my contract, and I’m nobody’s freeloader. So I kept myself busy during the downtime. I started drawing out the shows we were gonna have one day, literally making sketches of the stage designs in Nev’s lyrics notebook, and daydreaming with Virgil about the clothes.

