Moving Onward?

I put a question mark there because some days, you wonder.  Yesterday, I attending an "agent meet" that had ten casting and business agents.  The place organizing it sent links to pieces an actor could choose a scene, which I did.  In hindsight, it would have been better to find my own but time was short. 

Still, I feel it went well but would have been much better with a better scene. On top of that, I already knew the agents weren't quite who I needed to meet but you can never tell.  I will wait and see if I get any contact from the agent

The day before yesterday, I auditioned for an Equity show, "Queen of the Stardust Ballroom."  "Equity" means it was a union show and since I am not a member in the U.S., they are HARD to get into quite often. Each of us went in, sang for about two minutes and then out we came, none of us knowing if we did OK or what.  That is how it is often done.  You always hope that the agent or agents will ask some questions, etc., but the one guy in there didn't say a thing to anyone as far as I know.  Maybe you get a call or email later or maybe not.  It would be nice to hear "no" but some people freak out with that.  I would just like to know...anything!

Good news!  One musical (in development) that I auditioned for, "Perp! The Musical," didn't know which part to give me as there were two parts I could do.  One was a ridiculous criminal and the other was his defense attorney.  Well, I ended up with....both!  They don't appear together on stage at the same time so I will change my appearance a bit, mostly for the lawyer, I guess.

Columbia U emailed me again!  Ray, who directed me before asked me to do another scene for his grad class.   It'll be a "dream sequence" and it sounds like fun already.  We'll rehearse tonight, Saturday and Sunday and present the scene on Monday.  It's also from "Death of a Salesman."

My biggest project is coming up, "Keepers," a musical showcase to go on November 1 at "Studio 54," formerly the world's most renowned nightclub.  Rehearsals will start October 21 and I'm supposed to receive the music and texts I need to do...  With so many projects, I really need all the time I can get to keep the texts straight in my addled brain.

This coming Wednesday, I will audition for "The 39 Steps," a show I saw in London's West End two years ago.  This show has been on Broadway, is currently off Broadway and they are casting for a group to tour nationally here in the U.S.  It's a comical, four-actor version of the Alfred Hitchcock movie of the same name.  Each person plays several parts and I am hoping for the part of the comic character that plays even more parts than the others.  It's a great piece of fun!

Hey!  My roomie's show in the "Irish Theater Festival" was selected as "Best Play!"  I've started calling him, "Champ," which he deserves!  There is even talk of taking it over to Ireland and performing it there.

Every day, I send off emails with my photo and resume attached, hoping to get parts in movies and plays that I see advertised on a site called, "Actor's Access."  I've gotten about three "jobs" from it and every day, you never know what you might see in your email inbox.  There's also something called playbill.com.

Between the internet and everything else, I have very little time for writing and I need to do so.  I had a song idea last night while I was on the subway and should have written it down.  I'll try now.  Bye!