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The Play's The Thing

in News by DaveKellett

Thursday, November 15, 2012 - 09:31 AM

We're starting in on another storyline -- sillier, really, than the Undeveloped storyline -- that we'll call "The Play's The Thing."

Theater, alas, is one of my unchased dreams in life. I love acting, love being onstage, love that unique, two-way communication that you only get with a live audience. And every once in a while, I'll walk the boards here in LA...and every time it makes me wistful for the road not taken. In a different life, with different choices, I would've loved the acting life.

*But not the auditioning life. That part is miserable.

fearless_fool


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Re: The Play's The Thing (Score: 0)
posted Thursday, November 15, 2012 - 10:05 AM (#62378)

To see DK on stage?!? "I'd buy that for a dollar!" (Maybe more.)

Would you clue us in when you'll next be on stage? Or are your appearances closely guarded secrets?


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tigertail777


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Re: The Play's The Thing (Score: 0)
posted Thursday, November 15, 2012 - 04:23 PM (#62379)

I'm a bit of theatre rat too... but I do the background stuff: painting backdrops, making props, helping with the stage build and design and of course the collateral advertising like posters and fliers. Get involved with your local community theatre I guarantee you will find it a rewarding learning experience. :)


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gregpooh


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Re: The Play's The Thing (Score: 0)
posted Thursday, November 15, 2012 - 05:53 PM (#62380)
In Response to tigertail777 (#62379):

aaaaand we're back to the adds loading first and slowing everything to a crawl? I can't even see the strips now.

Help Dave!! =(


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Cori_K


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Re: The Play's The Thing (Score: 0)
posted Friday, November 16, 2012 - 09:39 PM (#62392)

Ditto! I spent eight years with the same theater out in Orange County, and now that I'm away in grad school, I find myself missing it deeply.

Do you act with the little local storefronts? Those are always a blast, especially if it's got that loving-but-slightly-dysfunctional family feel to it. (Heck, if you're ever out in the OC looking for a show to be in with weird, lovable people, I can point you towards my old home there.)

*And nobody ever misses the auditioning. No way.


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Davethebuck


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Re: The Play's The Thing (Score: 0)
posted Monday, November 19, 2012 - 03:02 PM (#62401)

This is getting interesting...


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Re: The Play's The Thing (Score: 0)
posted Tuesday, November 20, 2012 - 04:11 PM (#62404)

In response to the Nov. 20th strip.

Fun Theatre Fact: You don't whistle on stage because in the olden days of broadway the guys running the fly systems would communicate with a series of whistles. This was back before there were intercom systems to call cues with. A specific whistle would be a cue for a specific fly to come in or out. If you're just walking across the stage and mistakenly whistle a cue out and the guy in the air doesn't know better you could get a piece of the set dropped on your head. That is why you don't whistle on stage in a theater. I'm loving this storyline btw.


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Re: The Play's The Thing (Score: 0)
posted Tuesday, November 20, 2012 - 06:08 PM (#62406)
In Response to aeh20s (#62404):

...and the light is so that you don't turn people INTO ghosts by them falling off the stage or in a hole somewhere. Of course you probably knew that already. Fun series. Arthur is the perfect director.


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Re: The Play's The Thing? (Score: 0)
posted Sunday, November 25, 2012 - 09:52 PM (#62500)
In Response to tigertail777 (#62379):

Having just watched UK Watchdog, they played 'You're my favourite waste of time' to some scamming scumbag, which I thought was quite apt.

continue reading this [myautopartsblog.com]


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