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For the past few weeks, I've been attending rehearsals for a play with a local thater guild (basically it's a means to raise funds for the local grammar school), that's doing a modernized version of Damn Yankees.
Well last week, they finally had auditions, and today I received word that I will be playing the younger version of one of the main characters. For those of you who have seen the film version of Damn Yankess, it would be the role played by Tab Hunter.
Well, long story short (too late), there is a scene in the play where the character has to sing a solo as he leaves a goodbye note to his wife, but there was never any song assigned to it. I had auditioned for another role as well, but reserved myself to the fact that I would probably be getting this one.
So I started listening to a bunch of different options, found one I liked, and brought it up to the director today during a break, which she replied "Can you sing it?". "Oh yeah" I said, and proceeded to break into a few lines from it. She liked it, and said she would see what she could do.
After the break, she was talking to the producer, and called me over, and had me sing a few lines for her as well. Well, I'll just say the producer was stunned, and said I gave her goosebumps. Ha Ha Ha. It's still not 100% set in stone if that's the song that will be used, but I think its got a pretty good shot. The song?
Nat King Cole
(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons.
Yep, if I'm not careful, I'm gonna turn into Jack Amsterdam one day, and never look back.
I'll see if I can't get some pictures to post or maybe a short video that I can pop up on MySpace or AcidPlanet once it's done. The first show is March 4th.
I'm fired up!
Things are going to start happening for me - Navin R Johnson
Sweet, Mike. I'm also going to be in a one act play entitled "The case of the crushed petunias", and I have an improv show on wednesday (feb 1st). Good luck.
Wow Mike! Fantastic news. I'm thrilled for you. It sounds like a lot of fun. Pictures would be great. I would love to see them.
Cindy
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I can see Shelton in the role of Peter Pan. I would post a picture where I've doctored a picture of PP with Shelton's face, but I do not have Adobe on this computer. Just imagine that I did it and laugh.
I should at least have pictures, but my parents are going to go to the Sunday show with their fancy new dvd camcorder, so I'm going to try to get some footage online.
Dress rehearsal last night went alright. There are still a few scenes that need to be ironed out, but I think it will be a solid show.
I throughly enjoyed the plays and musical I was in (I have 8 under my belt -- I think, it's been awhile). It's a totally different animal doing theatre as opposed to film. My favorite parts were the pickup rehearsals. That's when everything went really off the wall and goofy.
I have to m,emorize my lines for "The Case of the Crfushed Petumnias" this weekend They are all like speeches. The on;y other play i have been in was "Once Upon a Matress" Where I p;layed thge mute king. No lines to memorize, just pantomime. This...this is hard...
Practice practice practice. The more you read it, the more you'll remember it. It would also help to have someone read the lines immediately preceeding yours (ideally the whole scene with you) so you have the cues down.
Do it without the script as much as possible once you've read it a dozen or so times. You'll remember more when you don't have anything to fall back on.