Usually, director Ryan Albrecht dreads off-book day.

The evening rehearsal where actors no longer keep their scripts on hand is usually a grueling one, filled with calls for lines from a long-suffering stage manager standing just out of sight.

Not so with The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals, the next show on the Village Players’ season lineup. The difficulty with this horror comedy musical isn’t getting everyone to start singing — it's getting them to stop.

“It’s been, ‘Hey, hold on, guys! Stop, stop, stop. I know all nine of you sing the song in your car at the top of your lungs, but we need just the one of you to do it, please,” said Albrecht, who was recently elected Village Players’ president after his predecessor, Dave Nelms, retired.

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