So I made them kiss

Well, it was time. Throughout the show, the two leads have several scenes where "they embrace". Even in a middle school production, there's only so often you can have them kiss on the cheek or the forehead and have it be believable that these are grown adults falling in love.

So, I had the two leads alone last night in rehearsal, and I finally had them kiss on the lips. We did it twice. It wasn't bad (well, for me anyway...if I had listened harder I could probably have heard racing heartbeats).

However, I think I would have had an easier time performing open heart surgery on a gerbil than trying to elicit some romance out of these two.

Actually, it was a little bit odd. I had the music playing, these two doing the scene while I yelled out things like "ok, now touch her here," "I need more passion", "that doesn't look believable", "put your hand here", "make it seem like you like it."

Kinda felt like one of those pervs at a live internet sex show. Only I would have wanted my money back.