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Pat Hurley acting classes at the Alliance Theatre

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What I Did: Week Ending 2009-03-22

  • OK. Yes I am alive this week. Forgot to wear green today and have been pinched for it, damn it. Maybe carrying green tea all day will do. #
  • Starting again in the Advanced Scene Study with Pat Hurley at the Alliance tomorrow night. #
  • I enjoyed my Advanced Scene Study class last night. Really missed being in there. Mostly new people. 2 of the 8 have seen me in plays. weird #
  • That last tweet was my 666th update. #
  • @carenwest Thank you. in reply to carenwest #
  • I will have spent $500 in 10 hours of private sessions with Pat Hurley working on monologues for the Atlanta Unifieds. I will rock this year #
  • No, not because I spent the money, but because of the training. Smatter’chu. #
  • Speaking of the Atlanta Unifieds, I have not received confirmation they have received my headshots. They are due tomorrow. Better check that #
  • @joeventures Yea! Thanks. in reply to joeventures #
  • Twitter has its uses. @joeventures unexpectedly confirmed that my headshots were received. I noticed from his tweets he works for ACPA. #
  • Having leftover Ippolitos’ Angel Hair with Alfredo. It needs some garlic.. lots of garlic. Maybe some roasted garlic on some bread. #
  • #rets I sometimes use Twitter as a research capture tool. Tidbits of info that is then captured on my blog. #
  • Three-O Vodka ads are the most annoying ads. I always have to reduce the size of my browser just to cover them up. Will NOT buy the vodka. #
  • Really like Grey Goose Vodka at the moment. Very smooth. #
  • Speaking of which, I am out of Grey Goose. #

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What I Did: Week Ending 2009-03-08

  • RT @Foodimentary: Did you know in 1938, Indiana professor, Rollo Harger introduced the ‘Drunkometer’, the 1st alcohol breath testing device. #
  • Despite the slush yesterday, we still had an audience of about a dozen plus. #
  • RT @DocGyver: @SWayward People crazy about watching crazy? 🙂 <–ummm goes without saying, I suppose. #
  • Headache. #
  • Did I mention that the furnace for the main floor of the house is broken. At least the upstairs furnace is working. Knock on head (tis wood) #
  • OK, knocking on the head did not do much for the headache. #
  • So Peanut M&M’s and a coke has not helped (or hurt) my headache. Suppose I will give advil a try. #
  • @jtalia – A tea person myself. Did I get the right account? Rosewater auditions? in reply to jtalia #
  • @jtalia Cool! in reply to jtalia #
  • RT @redstarvip: I support empowerment of women worldwide with this tweet. #apowerfulnoise – http://tinyurl.com/arkjmq #
  • How come after eating a large plate of vegetables, I am still hungry. #
  • I need a year planner for Mac and/or iPod Touch. Something where I can put in all dates so I can plan what if scenarios. #
  • Off to the Alliance to work with Pat Hurley on monologues. #
  • OK at work now. The furnace when out last week, finally had it looked at today. He jiggled a few wires and charged me $154. Could be worse. #
  • Corporate boss is in town and in the office today. Told he already did a walk through looking in all the cubes. No porn today. LOL. #
  • @DavidBlue I get the same thing as a mentally ill patient in One Flew Over The Cookoo’s Nest. The not having to act bit. in reply to DavidBlue #
  • Do’h. Keep forgetting. Tonight is Industry Night – PWYC – at New Dawn Theater: One Flew Over The Cookoo’s Nest. #
  • Approaching 200 people I am following. I think I might be addicted. Even when looking for a new phone my thought is can I tweet from it. #
  • RT @Wossy: Am just going to knock on Michael C Hall’s door. <– Have him join twitter! #
  • I played SimCity on my iPod Touch for about an hour last night. Made good progress… then the app crashed before I save any of it. Do’h. #
  • Took my headshot to Prima for more copies. I need sixty for the Unifieds. 100 minimum and they will print resumes on the back of 50 for me. #
  • Well off to the 1 of the final 5 showing of One Flew Over the Cookoo’s Nest. Tonight is PWYK. #
  • Nothing can ruin you day faster than an email to the world starting with “Well if this has passed the QA tests”. It was all user error. #
  • My day was good until then. Great even. Now I am in a damn bad mood. #
  • @MacHeist Yeah, I’ll take a free copy of DEVONthink! http://macheist.com/tweetblast/ #MacHeist #free #
  • @the_brian_jones You can get it for free by going to this link http://macheist.com/tweetblast/ in reply to the_brian_jones #
  • No news is bad news. Never heard from my audition on Monday. So its a spring of classes at the @alliancetheatre: Actor’s Process, Voice Over #
  • The auditions for the Summer Reps are in a couple of weeks. #
  • A great Pat Hurley quote: “Mmmm. I make the best instant coffee” #
  • Off to find some food before tonights show. #

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Auditioned for Misery

I auditioned last night for Misery at Rosewater Theatre. Last night was also the callback for those who auditioned last week. But this is a good case of “Do your research”. The audition notices stated that they were looking for 1 male. And not knowing anything more than seeing commercials when the movie came out, I assumed there was only 1 male in the play. Even doing a bare minimal Google search, I found the name of the lead role: PAUL. Still did not see anything about other male actors.

I think the lead male actor is already filled and I put on the downloaded audition form that I would only accept that role. When I arrived there were sides for the other males. I ended up sticking with my choice of only auditioning for the lead for only a single reason: Alliance Theater Summer Repituar.

I was, well still am, torn about accepting another role than the lead. I do want to be seen in as many theaters as possible. My thought was that if I get the lead, I will skip the first two Summer Reps and could still do planned vacation in May. If I don’t do Misery, then I could audition for the Summer Reps, but I would miss vacation in May. I still may not get a role in a Summer Rep, but Pat Hurley, monologue coach and instructor, would like to see me audition. He is directing 2 of the 4 Reps.

Back to the audition: My first read was two different sides with a female partner and they went well. Because I was the only non-callback male there, the director asked me to read with other ladies. So I did. The more I read, the more I get to display my acting ability. Of course I am not going to NOT read with anybody.

In the end though, because I was only looking to do PAUL, I don’t think I will receive a role. That’s OK. Next audition is for the Summer Reps.

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5 Down 10 To Go

First weekend of One Flew Over the Cookoo’s Nest has passed. We had very small audiences to midsized audiences, talkers and laughers (those who do that in excess). We did have lots of great audience feed back as well as people leaving. One person who left who left said they had an autistic son and our play hit too close to home. There were a lot of good comments from audience members. Two more weekends to go.

Outside of the play, I did get accepted to the 2009 Atlanta Unifieds. All hearsay is that there are 250 slots for the 2 days and over 350 people applied. Two people I know did not get accepted and 4 of Pat Hurley’s students at the Alliance did not get accepted. I really wonder what the acceptance criteria was and what the real number of people who applied was.

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What I Did On 2009-02-09

  • Good monologue session with Pat Hurley on Sunday. Nearly ready for Wednesdays audition for “A Sunday Afternoon at Loehmann’s”. #
  • Did not realize, that next Monday is a company holiday. It’s Presidents Day. Holidays are the curse of the contractor. No work, no pay, darn #
  • Got selection D4 out of the snack machine… what?… OK FINE! I got chocolate cookies to have with my green tea! Happy now? Hope so. yummy. #

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