the final countdown

When you read the title of this post, you have to go "tah tah tah tah...tah tah tah tah tah..." to get the full effect. :) If you don't the Europe song, just skip it...

I'm at White Station Elementary and having a wonderful two weeks here in the library. Friday is the end of the school year here, and of course the children are excited. They had a field day last Friday and it really quite fun. Lots of fun things for them to do, all organized by the gym teacher here, Coach Cochran. He really did a wonderful job of keeping everything moving.

I've been offered my first Equity contract in ten years. There is a new fledgling Shakespeare company starting here, and I'll be doing Amiens in As You Like It. Oddly enough, I did Amiens in 1977 at Theatre Memphis in the Little Theatre. The artistic director is a wonderfully nice man named Dan McCleary, and I really hope this could be the beginning of some decent pay in Memphis for actors.

I also did an audition and callback for Les Miz in Little Rock for Arkansas Rep and felt like it went well. I sang the latter half of the Suicide scene and the director asked for Stars. In the callback, I sang all that again and did the Priest's little scene before the candlesticks are stolen. He must be thinking of me for that with a Javert understudy. I don't know if I can afford to do that, but we'll see.

Deb's had some nibbles on an email we sent out about her potential job change and I'm optimistic about it. I don't know if she is as optimistic as I am about it, but I pray something will be settled soon. She gets very stressed about money and it doesn't help to have an actor for a husband if you worry about money.:)

That's about all for now, I have a class coming in.

expelled, les miz, shakespeare

So we had our viewing of Expelled and it was kind of anticlimactic. Far more important was the depressing news of my wife's job being "relocated" to Murfreesboro. She was completely freaked out about it and didn't feel like going. It ended up being me and Janet Bush, Mike and Jo Rutter, Jason Grosser, and Michael Coplon. Most of the other atheists found some reason not to go-and I wasn't really in the mood to have some big discussion afterwards.

I'm very confident Deb will find some other work here in Memphis-I just pray for her peace of mind. I also pray that I'll be able to find something that pays more and is more of a full time job. I'd like to get back into radio and I've made some connections that I hope to bring to fruition.

I'm at White Station Elementary all week in the library and what a wonderful new school this is. I hope I'll have more time to write this week and I hope to do well tonight at an audition for a "Tennessee Shakespeare Company"...I don't know exactly what this gig is supposed to be but it is supposed to be a union job.

Next week I'm singing for Les Miz in Little Rock ...I REALLY need this job...pray for me.