"You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown"
So! This last weekend I got to be Charlie Brown in our church's production of "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" and it was awesome. I've been telling people that it's always nice to work on something with two key features: First, the people working with you are competent and fun to work with, and second, you feel like you're making a significant contribution yourself. Due to some casting changes partway through our rehearsals, our director ended up taking the part of Snoopy, and we got a new director (Donna) who was the friend of our Lucy and Sally. Donna has worked in community theater for many years, and has directed several shows, and it was fantastic to get to work with her on this.
And it, uh, didn't hurt that she thought I was fantastic. I mean, I've had people complement me before on my acting and singing and stuff, but typically it's from a 'layperson' perspective. I knew that I was decent enough to be entertaining, and I have fun doing it. But having someone who actually knows what she's talking about tell me I'm great means a lot.
And thinking about it, I've been in choirs from being a kid through college, and was onstage or practicing every week for almost 10 years in ComedySportz after that, so I suppose I do have a fair amount of experience, if it comes to that.
After I played Joseph in "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" back in 2004, it was fun, but I was done; it scratched my acting itch for the nonce, and anyway we had barely moved into our house and Ellric was still 4. But at this point, we're more settled, Ellric is 7, I did just start a new job (um, not that I mentioned that here. In brief: I'm now a Research Consultant in the Department of Bioengineering doing more computer stuff.) but there's no particular stress there, and, well, I really enjoyed it and I'm apparently good at it. So I think after a bit of a break, I'll start nosing around the local community theater scene. And when I mentioned that to Donna (when she asked), she spontaneously volunteered to help coach me on how to do auditions, which would be great.
So hey! Yay me. Further bulletins as events warrant, and I'll try to get some pictures up soon, too. There may even be video; hopefully the quality is decent.
And it, uh, didn't hurt that she thought I was fantastic. I mean, I've had people complement me before on my acting and singing and stuff, but typically it's from a 'layperson' perspective. I knew that I was decent enough to be entertaining, and I have fun doing it. But having someone who actually knows what she's talking about tell me I'm great means a lot.
And thinking about it, I've been in choirs from being a kid through college, and was onstage or practicing every week for almost 10 years in ComedySportz after that, so I suppose I do have a fair amount of experience, if it comes to that.
After I played Joseph in "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" back in 2004, it was fun, but I was done; it scratched my acting itch for the nonce, and anyway we had barely moved into our house and Ellric was still 4. But at this point, we're more settled, Ellric is 7, I did just start a new job (um, not that I mentioned that here. In brief: I'm now a Research Consultant in the Department of Bioengineering doing more computer stuff.) but there's no particular stress there, and, well, I really enjoyed it and I'm apparently good at it. So I think after a bit of a break, I'll start nosing around the local community theater scene. And when I mentioned that to Donna (when she asked), she spontaneously volunteered to help coach me on how to do auditions, which would be great.
So hey! Yay me. Further bulletins as events warrant, and I'll try to get some pictures up soon, too. There may even be video; hopefully the quality is decent.