Category: Miscellaneous

Does not fit any category. Usually items unrelated to acting.

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Anne of Avonlea Opening Weekend

Anne of Avonlea opened this past weekend. The crowds were small, but this was Easter weekend. We did OK. I shaved my head on Friday night with the exception for fringe around the ears and back of the head. Pictures coming soon.

I ran line with Lizzie (ANNE) so that could get used to my not having any hair. We did laugh, but thankfully not during the show.

Remember my last post about not being very professional? This is where having lines so thoroughly memorized is needed. Cast members will forget lines but you are less likely to forget if you really really know your lines. I forgot some of my lines this weekend and Lizzie and I skipped half a page.

I will study my lines this week, but my priority now is to memorize my second monologue for the Atlanta Unifieds next Tuesday.

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They said I look like…

Bill BrysonPicture of MeWilliam ShatnerGary Busey

I have been told I look like various people. Most resent has been Gary Busey. From left to right is Bill Bryson, me, William Shatner, and Gary Busey,

Of course I need to update my headshot. Most of the time I sport a beard these days. When I wore 1870 replica glasses, a picture of Bill Bryson was shown to my neices and asked who this was. They replied “Uncle Jay”.

Of all the proofs I have from my first headshot session, there are a few where I look like William Shatner, a litter heaver set William Shatner.

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A site redesign

I redesigned all of my acting website and put it live about a week ago. I wanted to make the overall site look like the blog. In the past, my site never did quite look like the blog. The colors were the same, but it never was the same layout.

I still have tweaks that I need to do as far as style is concerned, but the layout is set. I plan on putting a montage of images in the header area. But for now it seems very large.

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Finally, a slot at the Unifieds

The Unifieds are is an open audition each year in Atlanta, hosted by the Atlanta Coalition of Performing Arts. There are 50 plus theatre companies in Atlanta and the South East. It is open to Actors and Singers who are Equity, Non-Equity and Students.

I am non-Equity. So I had to have at least 7 stage plays to qualify. This year I have enough. Two years back, although I did not qualify, I might have received a slot due to lack of applicants. Don’t know that for sure.

Last year, I did apply but was rejected for not having enough stage plays. This year, I did qualify and I was accepted.

The Unifieds are two days worth of actors doing 2 contrasting monologues or 1 monologue and 16 bars of accompanied music. Each actor has 2 minuets.

I am on the second day in the afternoon.

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New blogging software

OK. For a while I had been trying to update Serendipity blogging software but could never do it. I am a geek with credentials to prove it. But I was having trouble. So I thought I would give WordPress a chance.

Both are PHP based, which is what I know how to develop in, so I can muck with the underlying code. The problem was that there were plenty of scripts that would move everything from one blogging software to another, but not for Serendipity.

So I had to write my own. Of course I had to write it in PHP for moving stuff from one set of MySQL tables to another.

My next step need to be updating the CSS, well actually creating a new theme, to make it look like the rest of my acting site. The I will need to redirect people from my old blog to this new one.

Hopefully this will not take too long.