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What I Did: Week Ending 2009-05-03

  • Hate work sometimes. Gonna be one of those days. #
  • @GMHForLiberty Yes. Sometimes I feel that way too. in reply to GMHForLiberty #
  • @KrisAWinchell welcome to Twitter.. #
  • @KrisAWinchell welcome to Twitter.. #
  • @cathybaron: Well the ECHL Gwinnett Gladiators hockey team did not make it past the first round. nothing else matters. #
  • http://twurl.nl/3jzmit <– Office 2007 Service Pack 2 #
  • listening to streaming radio from Yorkshire (Leeds), just to hear additional British North accents. Have an audition in a few hours. #
  • I have not practiced as much as I should have on the accent, but I think I can do it well enough for the audition. #
  • On a side note, I did get my wordpress blog to act like the rest of my website. Javascript conflict between two libraries. #
  • Did not hear back from my audition on Sunday for The 5th Great Ape at Emory. It did sound like they had everybody they needed already. #
  • I believe I have 2 stage shows (June and August performances) and the audition tonight and on May 16th both fit perfectly between those two. #
  • Rehearsals for Once in a Lifetime (June performance) starts this Saturday. And I am 90% sure I have a role in the play for August. #
  • Streaming radio Yorkshire UK. It’s after 10PM and it’s all music I have heard before, but feels very different because of is source location #
  • In case you were wondering, Leeds United Reserve Team won their championship game today. #
  • I have a call back for the role of Major Metcalf in The Mousetrap. #
  • Of three people up for Major Metcalf – Bob Smith, George Crolius and myself, I am, in my mind, the least likely looking British Army Retiree #
  • @TJSanson Welcome to Twitter! #
  • Off to what may be my last Advanced Scene Study class until August. #
  • This should be interesting: #ToplessTwitterDay this Friday! You don’t wanna see me topless. #
  • RT @t_b_j: Offering a #toplesstwitterday pact with @Swayward to skip the event. <– DONE! #
  • RT @atlartevents: So long folks. This account will be closed due to downsizing. <– D’OH!! #
  • RT @BartenderOne: looking at the coolest portable bar ever… http://www.evolverbar.com <– very nice. #
  • RT @Foodimentary: Did you know that raisins, grapes, and avocados are poisonous to cats? http://tiny.cc/9Rqjn #
  • @wcdarling I hope it recovered. in reply to wcdarling #
  • Well I am off to callbacks for The Mousetrap at Red Clay Theater. #
  • I screwed up on my second reading at the callbacks. I was doing well until then. FUDGE!! #
  • At least I think I was doing well until then. #
  • They asked if I would be willing to shave my head again. Been asked that a lot. Maybe I should go back to that look. I miss being bald. #
  • @Kerriana This Saturday gig. What are the times? I HAVE to be at the Alliance by 6:30PM. What are they looking for looks wise. #
  • RT @crazeegeekchick: Internet Running out of Space? (no way jose) http://tinyurl.com/cfz56f <– the bit that broke the internet’s backbone #
  • @amberlrhea I do hope all is OK. Just remember that today is May Day and No Pants Day. http://www.nopantsday.com/wp/ #
  • RT @Ihnatko: Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day! http://bit.ly/3KYLYL <– I miss my comics. I need to find some money to renew this hobby. #
  • RT @Foodimentary: “Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”~Ernest Hemingway #TGIF #
  • That is if I can remember what I said I would do drunk. #
  • @TJSanson Saw some of your photos in the lobby at Red Clay Theater. Very nice. #

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Auditioned for The 5th Great Ape on Sunday

So I leave the house with my wife. Her car is at my parents. Drop her off.

Almost out of gas. Fill Up.

Then I need to stop by work because that is where the directions to the audition are located. Get those.

Make it to the parking deck and I cannot find a parking spot. Well I do find some but not any I can get into. Very small parking deck at Emory University. I think it was for that quadrant of the campus and everybody was on campus on Sunday. What is even worse about this parking deck is that it has three entrances. So after driving around this deck, exiting from one entrance and entering again from another I finally find a spot. Still have to pull part way in, back up to straighten and finally I am parked.

Entered on the first level, parked on the second and had to go up the stairs to exit on the street I wanted. On the way up the stairs, I tripped and put some wrinkles in my headshots.

Entered the building where the auditions are being held on the second floor. I’m on the first. I don’t see any stairs so I walk around. Don’t see an elevator or stairs. I walk a complete circuit of the first floor and return to the door I enter. There is a small sign saying stairs in this little alcove with a door that I first assumed as a janitor’s closet. This alcove was small with pipes coming out of the wall and a small door beyond. I mean a small door. I wonder how many people have walked into this building looking for a way to the second floor and leaving in frustration.

So into this little alcove, past the pipes and open the door, and indeed there are stairs. Up the stairs and there are two doors to exit out of. No signs. Ok. Let’s go left. And there is a sign with an arrow pointing toward the auditions. OK, we are making progress. Around the corner is a table with someone sitting at it. No sign saying sign in, but it looks like the right place so I stand there for a second and look at the papers on the table. Finally the girls says, “Fill out this form and here is additional information. What is your name?”

Fill out paperwork, turn it in with headshots and then sit and wait. Amazingly, I only have to wait about a minute. Apparently the person before me has not shown up yet.

In the room are 3 people: Ariel de Man (director), Ken Weitzman (writer) and third guy whose name I cannot remember (sorry about that). All very nice people. So I do a dramatic monologue and then Ariel has me read the first Scientist side. They were all smiles when I finished so I know I didn’t do a bad job. It sounded as if things were going very well for the auditions; there were not going to be any callbacks. The schedule over the weekend sounded aggressive, so I am sure they gave offers for roles yesterday.

Thankfully, leaving was a lot easier than arriving.

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What I Did: Week Ending 2009-04-12

  • @THEezrunner Thanks. Another 2/3 mile walk around the building today. Determined to loose 3 lbs this week. in reply to THEezrunner #
  • Tip from my allergist: wash your face during allergy season. Keep the pollen off. Maybe I should shave my pollen catcher (beard). #
  • @theflickcast don’t you mean iTune in. <snicker> in reply to theflickcast #
  • Cupcakes? Why yes I will have one. When have I ever refused. #
  • Have an audition slot for The Mousetrap on April 28th at 7:25PM-EST at Button Theatre. I need to work on a British accent. #
  • @ginayates Thanks. I have Northern British, but not Standard which is what I need to work on. in reply to ginayates #
  • RT @the_brian_jones: @SWayward All of Monty Python is free on Youtube. 🙂 They use a wide variety of accents. <– good point. #
  • @JonathanNail Thanks! in reply to JonathanNail #
  • going to be a busy next few days. Learning lines for Once in a Lifetime, rehearsals start in May. Accent for an audition. #
  • Need to find monologues for my Monday night class and Advanced Scene Study for the next 4 Wednesday nights #
  • Oh and a trip to St. Simon’s Island and two garage sales to prep for. And damn it, I did not win the lottery. #
  • Oh well. Lunch! #
  • Note to self: Another audition scheduled for 2:16PM-EST on Sunday April 26th at Theater Emory for The 5th Great Ape. #

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Audition Notice: The 5th Great Ape

Theater Emory announces auditions for The 5th Great Ape, by Out of Hand Theater and Ken Weitzman, directed by Ariel de Man.

Equity Auditions on Saturday, April 25 from 10:00AM – 6:00PM.
Non-Equity Auditions on Sunday, April 26 from 2:00-6:00PM.

Rehearsals start on Oct. 20 and the play runs Nov. 12 – 22.

Prepare a contemporary monologue of 1-2 minutes that can be presented with great physicality. There will also be readings from the script (sides available at auditions and in advance).

Actors are paid for rehearsal and performance. Performers of all ethnic and racial backgrounds are encouraged to attend. Auditions are at the Rich Building at 1602 Fishburne Drive on the Emory University campus in Atlanta. Call 404-712-9118 M-F, 10-5 starting Thursday, 4/9 for more info and to schedule an appointment. (Please no calls prior to 4/9.) See our website for more information:

Click on ‘Theater Emory’ and ‘Audition Info’.

Theater Emory operates under a SPT contract with Actors Equity Association. Audition notices for this production are also posted in “Casting Call” on the AEA website www.actorsequity.org and locally on the ACPA website www.atlantaperforms.biz.

Description: Scientists agree that humans are approximately two percent genetically different from chimpanzees. World-famous primatologist Frans de Waal of Emory University’s Yerkes National Primate Research Center wants to know what that two percent means for human nature. In a co-production with Theater Emory, Out Of Hand Theater and playwright Ken Weitzman are working with assistance from Dr. de Waal and Yerkes to develop The 5th Great Ape. The human ape is examined in this collaboratively-generated, highly physical theater piece that retells a riveting true story of murder and suicide in the largest chimpanzee colony in captivity. Human characters explore our true nature in a play that offers new ideas and questions about power, sex, violence, kindness, and morality through study of our closest primate relatives.

Female role:
Mama (40s – 50s): The matriarch of the community. Ruled before the men came. The arbiter, the dispute settler, the peacekeeper. You better listen to Mama if you know what’s good for you.

Male roles:
Scientist (mid 30s – 60s): A primatologist studying the human ape community, passionate about his research, highly perceptive, trained to be objective and unemotional, but can’t help forming personal attachments to his subjects.

Jerome (40s – 50s):  The oldest man in the community, over the hill, a calculating old fox, an Iago.