I got the part!

The last two weekends of July I will be appearing at the 13th street rep theater in the Sirens. The show is part of a festival of one act play.

go me!

I got the part! The show I auditioned for yesterday with the 12th street rep? I got it. It was my big booming bass baritone voice that did it. The show is the last two weekends in July and I'll post details as I get them. Hopefully some of you NY folks can make it.

sword in stone

I've got an audition Thursday for a show with the 13th street repertory company. Great news. Was recommended for one role by someone in a class but the director is interested in me for another role after hearing my voice. I do that announcer voice thing. I am a natural bass baritone after all.

Tracers audition next Sunday, will have to go see if I can find a copy of the play. My personal library can always use another volume in it.

The writing group off shoot of the Masters class is off to a nice start. I think it's definitely energized us.

Yesterday was the reading of Jon Crefeld's The Sword Politik a well-written interesting play set in early Christian Germany. Nice bits of humor throughout. You're never sure exactly how it's going to end as the main characters arc could easily go almost any way. It was an interesting experience and I'll definitely have to go check it out once it's put up in August. I read a role in the play but I'm not exactly right for any of the roles in it.

frustrated

Yesterday I had an audition with TROMA studios for a new film called Poultrygeist. You may know TROMA from the Toxic Avenger series. Went okay I suppose. I had to sing a song and though it was only my second singing audition I already am starting to feel like an old hand at it.

I've already run into several casting agents as shills trying to sell you their services. It's a part of the business I know. One is affiliated with the guy who ran my acting on film class. The less said about him the better. It was a costly mistake. I sensed it going, in especially after the first class but as I'd committed to him previously I stayed with him and bailed on the film school. Lesson? Trust your instincts even if it means sometimes bailing on a commitment.

8 Minute Madness festival uptown tonight. Sining lessons tomorrow. Tracers audition at the end of the month. I had another audition prospect pop up for Monday but I would have to dance for them... I'm just not quite there yet. Again I should have followed my instincts and found a dance school earlier. I knew this situation would pop-up. Those same instincts are telling me now to find a Stage Combat class. I know I'm going to need it as well.

go team, ME!

Just got another email about the Tracers audition. Yay. Apparently the last email was legit and not just a don't call us we'll call you form email.

Cool.

MENAECHMI

Just got back from an audition for Plautus' THE BROTHERS MENAECHMUS. The play served as the (supposed) basis for Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. I've never done Shakespeare let alone plays that inspired him so it was all kind of interesting. I actually think I have a pretty good shot at getting it. I'm also supposed to hear about an audition for a revival of a play called Tracers this next week. We shall see, we shall see.

Finished another revision on the little one-act I'm writing. Waiting on feedback on that and working on two scenes for class. I guess I'm busy but it still feels as though I'm mired in molasses. Time just lopes slowly along and no one is returning my calls this weekend. Shucks.

just A FEW

Acting class went very well yesterday; one scene partner and I put up our scene from A FEW GOOD MEN and another partner and I put up a scene from P.S. YOUR CAT IS DEAD. Both went very well, esp., A Few Good Men. Got a new scene to work on as well. Heavy on the dialogue for me, which is neither good nor bad, just is.

Learned a lot from A FEW GOOD MEN. The scene is short so I thought would be over and done... easy breezy but it wasn't. Many layers to it very interesting. Lesson? Don't judge a piece by its length. *heh,heh*

Writing a scene/play hopefully for the next showcase. Wrote a draft and sent it to my acting coach and now working from his notes. It's already become something I didn't start out with. Which is good. I like the process.

Acting class again tonight. Jon C and I are putting up A FEW GOOD MEN complete with uniforms... well near-uniforms anyway. I did finally watch the Tom Cruise movie version as well as the extras. They really are two different animals, two stories based on the same incident. I think I prefer the stage version but I really enjoyed the movie. I think I like my smilin' Jack Ross over Kevin Bacon's almost weaselly pratt but both serve the storyline.