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Have a blast.... ummm.... I'm thinkin there is a saying in that busness about breaking a leg....well don't do that for real but break a leg. Shucks just go have fun
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You're such a drama queen Steve, eat a Snickers :lol:

Have fun and good luck.
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I am having a BLAST with this. It's more fun than I could have possibly imagined. I will spare you the details, but seeing a script become an actual thing is very enlightening. I get excited over incredibly stupid things like getting to wear a flamboyant scarf in a "funeral" scene because it gives me something to do with a free hand...

Every morning, I ask myself, "What the hell is wrong with you? Why are you doing this? What were you thinking? You can't possibly keep it together for this!"

Every evening, I show up for rehearsal, start working, and forget ALL that shit I said in the previous sentence.

This will be good.

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Glad to hear you're enjoying it!
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Is there not a little bit of acting every time your face to face with a customer ?
I have more questions than answers

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Poland308 wrote:Is there not a little bit of acting every time your face to face with a customer ?
Not just customers but just about everyone else it seems like. Act like I'm excited for them, act like I care about your relationship problems, act like I care about your problems while I have my own to worry about...
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Yep.

Now do it in front of 100+ people you've never met who've paid $30 apiece to watch you do it. I get to pretend to be a dance instructor (among other characters, but this one has the most lines and impact). I know absolutely zero about dance, including the terminology in my lines. I also get to be a little flamboyant. The movie says Pete's not gay, but in this adaptation, it's not clear.
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Otto Nobedder wrote:Yep.

Now do it in front of 100+ people you've never met who've paid $30 apiece to watch you do it. I get to pretend to be a dance instructor (among other characters, but this one has the most lines and impact). I know absolutely zero about dance, including the terminology in my lines. I also get to be a little flamboyant. The movie says Pete's not gay, but in this adaptation, it's not clear.
Hah ill do you one better. Do it in front of 400 people who paid $15 a piece to see the show some you know most you don't while wearing a clock costume that is about 3'x3' and ways about 50 lbs and then walk up and down a flight of stairs that you have about an inch of clearance on while talking in a British accent making corny clock jokes and get paid nothing. This years wasn't so bad though. I got to be an iron worker and a mason so...I played myself I guess but two years ago was the year of the clock and I couldn't wait for the time to be over for that one. I wish it would have ticked away faster.
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Otto Nobedder wrote:I am having a BLAST with this. It's more fun than I could have possibly imagined. I will spare you the details, but seeing a script become an actual thing is very enlightening. I get excited over incredibly stupid things like getting to wear a flamboyant scarf in a "funeral" scene because it gives me something to do with a free hand...

Every morning, I ask myself, "What the hell is wrong with you? Why are you doing this? What were you thinking? You can't possibly keep it together for this!"

Every evening, I show up for rehearsal, start working, and forget ALL that shit I said in the previous sentence.

This will be good.

Steve
Glad you're having fun, never done it myself but it always looks they enjoyed doing the show. :)
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Take it from me , do not get sucked in. Sure it's fun, but you probably will not make a living doing it.
I am a technical director, for a small theatre in Indianapolis IN, and I see all kinds of people trying to make a living at acting.
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thespian wrote:Take it from me , do not get sucked in. Sure it's fun, but you probably will not make a living doing it.
I am a technical director, for a small theatre in Indianapolis IN, and I see all kinds of people trying to make a living at acting.
Oh, I have no illusions of making money at this. I have no intent to try. This is a new hobby I'm entertaining (no pun intended). The show opens July 7 and closes July 23. I might never do this again, in which case it's on the list of stuff I can tell my grandchildren I've done, or I might fall in love and maintain it as a hobby. We shall see.

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Otto Nobedder wrote:Yep.

Now do it in front of 100+ people you've never met who've paid $30 apiece to watch you do it. I get to pretend to be a dance instructor (among other characters, but this one has the most lines and impact). I know absolutely zero about dance, including the terminology in my lines. I also get to be a little flamboyant. The movie says Pete's not gay, but in this adaptation, it's not clear.
Hah ill do you one better. Do it in front of 400 people who paid $15 a piece to see the show some you know most you don't while wearing a clock costume that is about 3'x3' and ways about 50 lbs and then walk up and down a flight of stairs that you have about an inch of clearance on while talking in a British accent making corny clock jokes and get paid nothing. This years wasn't so bad though. I got to be an iron worker and a mason so...I played myself I guess but two years ago was the year of the clock and I couldn't wait for the time to be over for that one. I wish it would have ticked away faster.
Tapdancing Christ, NO! You would not get me in that costume in high school. I might wear it today, but I'm a much more confident man at 48 than I was at 16.

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thespian wrote:Take it from me , do not get sucked in. Sure it's fun, but you probably will not make a living doing it.
I am a technical director, for a small theatre in Indianapolis IN, and I see all kinds of people trying to make a living at acting.
And they are usually waiters/waitresses as well correct?
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Farmwelding wrote:
thespian wrote:Take it from me , do not get sucked in. Sure it's fun, but you probably will not make a living doing it.
I am a technical director, for a small theatre in Indianapolis IN, and I see all kinds of people trying to make a living at acting.
And they are usually waiters/waitresses as well correct?
..and bartenders and baristas. :roll:

Welders? Not so much. Flashdance was a story, not a biography.

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Here's the flyer/poster.
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Opening weekend! Let us know how it was, to strut and fret your hour upon the stage!
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Artie F. Emm wrote:Opening weekend! Let us know how it was, to strut and fret your hour upon the stage!
Opening night was a full house.
I don't recall the last time I had this much fun with my clothes on!

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Artie F. Emm wrote:Opening weekend! Let us know how it was, to strut and fret your hour upon the stage!
Opening night was a full house.
I don't recall the last time I had this much fun with my clothes on!

Steve
Congrats! Hope the other shows are just as full
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House was probably 70% full Saturday, and 55% for the Sunday Matinee. Still good response.

Here's Pete, who gets to be a li'l more flamboyant than the rest of the cast.
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Otto Nobedder wrote:House was probably 70% full Saturday, and 55% for the Sunday Matinee. Still good response.

Here's Pete, who gets to be a li'l more flamboyant than the rest of the cast.
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Is the stache natural or fake?
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The mustache is natural (I carved the center out of my goatee to get that 70's "porn star" look). Our makeup artist emphasizes it a bit for me, as I'm rather grey in that area.

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Otto Nobedder wrote:The mustache is natural (I carved the center out of my goatee to get that 70's "porn star" look). Our makeup artist emphasizes it a bit for me, as I'm rather grey in that area.

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My compliments. It is a nice stache
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Opening night was a full house.
I don't recall the last time I had this much fun with my clothes on!
Maybe your next gig will be "Oh Calcutta". Then you can have fun acting nude.
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Opening night was a full house.
I don't recall the last time I had this much fun with my clothes on!
Maybe your next gig will be "Oh Calcutta". Then you can have fun acting nude.
...Gonna take a lot of make-up to cover all that grey hair. :lol:

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Otto Nobedder wrote:
ODIS wrote:
Opening night was a full house.
I don't recall the last time I had this much fun with my clothes on!
Maybe your next gig will be "Oh Calcutta". Then you can have fun acting nude.
...Gonna take a lot of make-up to cover all that grey hair. :lol:

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Waxing??

That will be one show I think I would skip...no offense
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