I wanna be an actor
Jackson and I are in a musical currently, for those that don’t know. Hopefully Shannon has noticed as she’s the director. It plays for four days at the end of the month — I’ll put the actual details and booking information and such up here very soon.
Anyhow, while Jackson is the main character, with a boodle of scenes (actually, not that many, the cast is pretty big), I’m a 1940s crooner who gets eight lines. The point of the story is that we got to rehearse the scenes where I have lines last night, finally, and it was great fun. I’m absolutely spewing that I wasn’t more involved in these things at school. Of course, I doubt I really could have been. Curse my teenage awkwardness!
Meanwhile, Battlestar Galactica still rocks. I’ve just finished watching an awesome trilogy of stories — episodes 210, 211 and 212 — and the show has not disappointed yet. Yes, I’m aware I’ve only reviewed up to 203. I’ll get busy very soon. Aren’t you paying attention? I’m a busy actor!
Finally, I’m trying to think of some more random website names. I’ve decided relevance is not nearly as important as pithalit… pithical… pithiness? Anyhow, random is the order of the day. Just not fruit or vegetables.
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Shannon
March 7th, 2006 at 7:07 am
And spewing that you watched us have all the fun from the orchestra for the last.. how many shows? Hey here’s an idea about how to get involved more in the future – you can direct one!!! Brilliant!!!
Actually Jackson seems to be flirting with the idea. Maybe you should bribe him for some more lines next time. You did fail to mention however that you’re character is famous and you have back-up singers dedicated simply to making you look good in your SOLO SONGS.
ben
March 7th, 2006 at 7:43 am
A bunch of kids i know in hawaii are all keen thespians.
Not too sure why i chose to contribute that. one of them I even pointed in the direction of grapefruits. she liked it alot.
Tom
March 7th, 2006 at 6:02 pm
HELLO HAWAII!
You underestimate how much fun orchestra can be when there’s some quality music. Witches of Eastwick had some really enjoyable bits and some cool solos, I really enjoyed that. Some earlier ones weren’t so good though.
Are they supposed to be making me look good? They’d better try harder. I’ve decided I don’t want to be an actor, I just want to be an amateur everything. Perhaps I’ll be an amateur producer some day. Probably not.
Shannon
March 8th, 2006 at 5:52 am
I’m sure it would be a lot of fun in the band actually. I imagine, not being heavily involved in it the whole way you tend to get sick of seeing the show over and over though.. ? There was one VERY cool solo that I remember. And after we clicked and mic’d you up, we even HEARD you playing it!
What earlier shows did you not like the music for?
You won’t have to look far if you want to be an amateur producer. Pretty much anyone will snap you up.
Amateur everything is fun. Welcome to my world.
Mattt
March 9th, 2006 at 8:07 pm
i like the way tom thinks his teenage awkwardness is any different from his mid 20’s awkwardness.
andy
March 9th, 2006 at 9:16 pm
His mid 20s awkwardness didn’t prevent him from joining this musical.
Tom
March 9th, 2006 at 9:33 pm
I could provide you with Cliffs Notes for all my blog posts if you’re having trouble keeping up, Matt.
ben
March 11th, 2006 at 6:53 am
hawaii says hello i’m sure. i’m going there on saturday, so i’ll be sure to ask.
Shannon
March 28th, 2006 at 11:15 pm
And the musical is on this week! Wednesday – Saturday, 7.30pm. Come! Yay.
Oh wow. Nervous. Not. Shouldn’t be. Go boys! You’re fab! Woo! Crazy Shannon less sugar. Breath. Hmm.