Shaving my head

Jeannie and Wally looked for a wig or skull cap that looked real so I would look like I was balding with just a fringe of hair. It is actually mentioned in the play. So no luck on a wig. So I am going to do it… Shave My Head. For this weekends show (Saturday, March 22nd and Sunday, March 23rd), I will shave most of my head except for the “fringe”. Then for the next 5 weekends I will be completely bald and hair.

This also means that for the Atlanta Unifieds, I will not look like my headshots, but a bald guy with a beard.

Auditioned for Anne of Avonlea

I (and a few others) received an email earlier in the week from Jeannie with the play details and character breakdowns. What I gathered (and confirmed) was that Jeannie wanted to see me audition. I know that this did not guarantee me a role, just that she wanted to see me/us audition. So I did.

There was a single adult male role. J. A. HARRISON is a 45ish, blustery irate neighbor, who tends to bully and browbeat everyone. Not that the rest of the male role are children, but I don’t think I can do an 18 year old. So J. A. HARRISON or bust.

Jeannie had me read a single scene with ANNE where J. A. HARRISON rants about a cow who is into his oats. It was a fun scene.

Candy Cain Spahr was supposed to have directed the play, but a new job is taking her away. I was in Heidi with Candy, so it would have been good to work with her again. I take that back, she will be Co-Directing while she is in town, but that is only for a few weeks.

I was mentioning to Candy about understanding the desire to do larger roles. I have done a lot of minor roles and the only lead role I have had was in A Christmas Story this past December. I have scene actors who will refuse to do a role because it is small. My thought is that at least I am doing something that I love to do. Yes I would like to be the lead, but at least with any role, I am on stage even if its just for part of a play.

I know that I am not guaranteed a part in Anne of Avonlea, but I was the only adult male who auditioned last night. There are more auditions on Saturday with callbacks, if necessary, on Saturday afternoon.

Audition Notice: Anne of Avonlea

Kudzu Family Playhouse
10743 Alpharetta Highway
Brannon Square
Roswell, Georgia 30076

Audition Notice for: Anne of Avonlea Directed by Jeannie Hinds.

Dates and times of audition: January 24 Thursday @ 7pm January 26 Saturday @ 11:30am

Location of audition: 608 Holcomb Bridge Road, Roswell, Ga. 30076

Casting needs: Nine women, ages 14-65 Five men, ages 10-55 Anne of Avonlea is the sequel to Anne of Green Gables. It continues the story of Anne Shirley, an imaginative and headstrong young orphan in 1890s Canada, whose hot temper matches her red hair. Anne of Green Gables told of Anne’s adoption by an elderly brother and sister, Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert, and her childhood adventures in the idyllic village of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island. Anne of Avonlea takes up the story with Anne, now sixteen, soon after Matthew’s death, when Anne has graduated from college. It follows her struggles and adventures as an aspiring writer and English teacher in a private school on the mainland.

Performances: March 22-April 20, 2008 Saturday and Sunday at 2 pm Saturday, April 12 & 19 at 7:30pm Performances will be at 10743 Alpharetta Highway, Roswell, Ga. 30076

Audition requirements: Cold readings from the script

Contact:
Name: Jeannie Hinds
Telephone # 770-594-1020
Fax # 770-594-1318
e-mail: kudzuplayhouse@aol.com
website: www.kudzuplayhouse.org

(Directions) Kudzu (3rd Stage) Playhouse is on the corner of Alpharetta Highway and Holcomb Bridge Road in the Roswell Town Center Mall, 608 Holcomb Bridge Road, Roswell. The theatre is downstairs at the South end of the center hallway next to Whirly Ball.

Audition Notice: Same Time Next Year

A man and woman meet by chance at a romantic inn over dinner. Although both are married to others, they find themselves in the same bed the next morning questioning how this could have happened. They agree to meet on the same weekend each year. Each of them always appears on schedule, but as time goes on each has some personal crisis that the other helps them through, often without both of them understanding what is going on. Twenty five years of manners, morals and attitudes are mirrored during these encounters as we follow this love affair between George and Doris, who rendezvous once a year.

Directed by: Adriana Warner

When: December 4 (Tuesday) and December 5 (Wednesday) from 7-9 PM. No appointment necessary.

Union Status: Non-equity/Non Paying

Casting: one man, one woman

Characters: must be able to play a 25 year age range for the six vignettes

George – begins as an uptight, neurotic accountant, becomes stuffy and rich, gives it all up when he goes into analysis and joins encounter groups, and becomes a latter-day hippie before returning to the establishment.

Doris – matures from an awkward girl to a restless housewife, a college returnee, an over-age flower child, a career woman and finally a settled matron.

Audition requirements: Cold readings from the script

Performances: January 25 – February 24, 2008, Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2:30pm

Contact: Jeannie Hinds
Telephone # 770-594-1020
Fax # 770-594-1318
E-mail: kudzuplayhouse@aol.com

Frankie in Breaking Legs

Just received a call from Jeannie Hinds at Kudzu Playhouse. I got the part of Frankie in Breaking Legs. Jeannie was telling me I played the part perfectly during auditions.

Our first read through is next Wednesday. For me that will be after rehearsal for Heidi.

I had been not acting to build a business and it was pure torture not to act. I have had the best time and have been so excited to be back on stage. Now to have two plays back to back is just, well, I am speechless.