Yikes!
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Topic: Yikes!
Posted By: jphock
Subject: Yikes!
Date Posted: 9/12/06 at 1:45pm
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Well, if I didn't know better-I'd say the world was coming to an end.
I just received word that I will be starting rehearsals for my first ever paid acting job! 2 weeks of rehearsal (12 rehearsals total) and 3 weeks of performances. The show is Ragtime and it's at a semi-professional historic theater around here. I auditioned 2 months ago and was sure I didn't get it. Apparantly, I gave up too soon! Holy cow....what have I gotten myself into?!?! LOL |
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Posted By: DWolfman
Date Posted: 9/12/06 at 4:21pm
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Congratulations!! Hope you enjoy the challenge! Do keep us posted on the progress and the show. (while we control our envy ------------- Even a man who is pure of heart... |
Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 9/13/06 at 4:17am
"Chook, Chook, Chookas jphock! G'donya bewdy blue !------------- Joe Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
Posted By: POB14
Date Posted: 9/13/06 at 11:37am
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Congratulations! I love Ragtime. You are aware of the rule that any member of this board who gets a paid acting job has to send half their salary to a random member, aren't you? And let me check my Random Member Selector . . . why, it's ME! Send the check at your earliest convenience. ------------- POB Old Bugger, Curmudgeon, and Antisocial B**tard |
Posted By: castMe
Date Posted: 9/13/06 at 5:30pm
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There's something funny going on around here. That's the fourth time in a row POB has drawn himself. Shoot! &nbs p; &nbs p; &nbs p; &nbs p; &nbs p;  ------------- Investigate. Imagine. Choose. |
Posted By: jphock
Date Posted: 9/13/06 at 10:20pm
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POB,
I'll be sure to have my accountant cut the check after I've paid taxes, my manager, my agent, my housekeeper, my dog walker and...well...my accountant. 
Is it worth writing a check for 2 cents? I suppose it's just enough 'to put in' though if someone were to ask. I love Ragtime too...I did it 3 years ago with an amateur group and the results were impressive. I can't wait to see what a pro group can do with it. Just in the ensemble again-but even that's exciting. I'm just worried about the abbreviated rehearsal schedule. The first time around rehearsals went for 4 months! By the way....Can someone check the Random Member Selector? There seems to be a mechanical malfunction! 
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Posted By: eveharrington
Date Posted: 9/16/06 at 2:30am
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Congratulations! ------------- "If nothing else, there's applause... like waves of love pouring over the footlights." |
Posted By: Kathy S
Date Posted: 9/16/06 at 2:59am
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I love this show, too, but I enjoyed the amateur production I saw even more than the professional road production I saw in the same town a few years before. I think it probably had more to do with the venue itself than the quality of the production. The professional production was in a cavernous monstrosity of a theatre seating thousands. The amateur version was in a smaller theatre seating probably fewer than 1000. Makes a big difference. |
Posted By: jphock
Date Posted: 10/27/06 at 11:50pm
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Well, for anyone intersted....
Tonight was opening night for Ragtime. Things went exceptionally well...standing ovation from the very moment the first member of the ensemble came on stage to take their bow...and the clapping continued well after we all had exited the stage. There were, of course, a few bobbles along the way-but none of which hurt the show or it's integrity. I'm so unbelievably proud of being involved in this cast...I know it sounds cheesy...but I walk into the theater every day and say "I'm not worthy...." Now, I'm exhausted.....so I'm off to bed :) |