So I just completed a one-weekend run of Confessions from the Ladies Room, the same play I was in two years ago and had commented on here previously. This time, I faced what was possibly the greatest acting challenge of my career so far-playing a woman. And not just any woman…an over-the-hill television and stage [...]
If a Lion Roars…But No One Hears It…
I am convinced that community theatre is a dying art form. Hell, I agreed with Patti LuPone when she commented that theatre in general is a dying art form. In this age of instant-gratification entertainment, of Wii and NetFlix and internet movies, live theatre simply has become passe, like typewriters and postage stamps. I just [...]
A Roadblock and a Detour
Well, I didn’t get anything in Oliver! I gave a damn good audition (on my birthday, no less) and made callbacks…a dance audition during which I worked my ass off and made a fool of myself, yet still had fun…and then the third-round reading/singing audition the following night. I have no regrets about what I did…I [...]
Hoping It’s Not My Funeral
Well, after all these years, I may finally get an opportunity to have a crack at Fagin in Oliver! The Players Guild of Canton is putting it on this fall, so I have full intentions of auditioning. I’m trying not to think about it too much…this role means a lot to me, as it’s the [...]
Another One Bites The Dust
Confessions…Ladies Room closed yesterday. I enjoyed myself, and a good time seemed to have been had by all who saw it. I just…I don’t know. As fun as they can be to do, I’ve never been into “fluff” theatre, or films, or books, or TV. Confessions was purely entertainment, nothing more. And that’s fine…but I [...]
I Confess…I’m Having a Good Time
Confessions from the Ladies Room opened at the North Canton Playhouse this past weekend. Now, as I indicated in my last entry, I wasn’t all that thrilled with how things were starting out when I joined the rest of the cast for rehearsals after David and Lisa. I wasn’t in the mood to do an [...]
DAVID AND LISA Closes
And it’s over…David and Lisa closed this past weekend, and received uniformly excellent feedback from its audiences, which were modestly-sized to tiny at times; still, I have no regrets about doing the play, as I said before. Now on to Confessions from the Ladies’ Room. I think it’ll be good…just wish we were being given [...]
Tech Week Approacheth on DAVID AND LISA
And here we are, almost at another openin’ of another show. The last month of rehearsals for David and Lisa has been a very smooth, positive experience. The part I am playing is not demanding at all, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. I needed something light after all the physical and emotional energy [...]
New Endeavor Looming
Good news…just accepted a role in a local production, in Green, Ohio, of David and Lisa. This is a very touching story of a romance that develops between two mentally damaged teenagers; an obsessive-compulsive boy and a schizophrenic girl. It all takes place in a mental institution, and I will be playing John, one of [...]
