Wanna watch me lampoon myself & overact?
pseudomodo
you get to boo & hiss at me...
http://austin.craigslist.org/com/437597818.html
I play the witless tavern keeper ala Basil Faulty w/ a Ralph Kramden
vaudevillian in-your-face presence.... Waaaay far over the top, so
unregenerate an overacting neophyte, I lampoon myself lampooning
myself... esp. when I jump my own lines & have to ad lib horribly out
my little moments of stagewreck.... ;-)
/leebert
Invisible Lurker
Damn! I was hoping for pictures.
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Don Shepherd
Don
Giggles Like a Girl
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>We do that here.
Beat me to it!
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sregd...@yahoo.com says...
Heh, sounds perfectly absfg to me! Do you get to
masturbate and eat human flesh on stage, too?
dt
Well, break a leg! I'm busy all week gettin' ready to leave town on
Saturday, or I might try and make it up there.
DT
(Goin' to Sandy's state, although not exactly his neck of the woods.
http://www.floridastateparks.org/standrews/default.cfm )
Dave K
That sounds fun. Wish I could be there!
Robert Epstein
me too; where are the damn jpegs???
robert
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pseudomodo
> Giggles Like a Girl wrote:
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>
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> > sregdor...@yahoo.com says...
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> >>Y'all already know I have no shame. Now I'm performing on the stage &
> >>you get to boo & hiss at me...
>
> >>http://austin.craigslist.org/com/437597818.html
>
> >>I play the witless tavern keeper ala Basil Faulty w/ a Ralph Kramden
> >>vaudevillian in-your-face presence.... Waaaay far over the top, so
> >>unregenerate an overacting neophyte, I lampoon myself lampooning
> >>myself... esp. when I jump my own lines & have to ad lib horribly out
> >>my little moments of stagewreck.... ;-)
>
> > Heh, sounds perfectly absfg to me! Do you get to
> > masturbate and eat human flesh on stage, too?
>
> Well, break a leg! I'm busy all week gettin' ready to leave town on
> Saturday, or I might try and make it up there.
It's Ralph Kramden meets Basil Faulty meets Al Bundy. I go from
bragging about my status as a landlord to having the stagewife henpeck
me. "Her mind ... (then gesturing to women in the audience) LIKE THE
REST OF HER SEX ... changes every ten minutes!" I get booed, then give
them a sneer w/ a dismissive gesture ... you get the picture.
In the 2nd act my drunken daughter beans me over the head w/ a whiskey
bottle & I then proceed to die with one of those long drawn-out,
melodramatic, chair-tipping, wall-slidin', leg-wigglin' "get it over &
die already" kind of deaths.
> DT
> (Goin' to Sandy's state, although not exactly his neck of the woods.http://www.floridastateparks.org/standrews/default.cfm)
We were there this past summer ... that part of Floribama is nice.
/leebert
pseudomodo
It's been an education ... picking up stagecraft & a very stylized
comic acting style that breaks out past the presidium into the
audience wasn't easy & I managed to pull it off in two weeks. I'm
still working on the style, but it's been one of those Baptisms by
Fire...
There's still one simple line in the vaudeville I keep screwing up &
it's become a running joke backstage.... Sunday we did the "Jose can
chew see?" national anthem joke w/ the hispanic stage manager standing
in as the judge doing the "Here comes the Judge, here comes the
judge..." skit ( a cleaned up version of "Blowing bubbles in the
park"). The audience was... aghast & laughed anyway. Vaudeville,
revisited w/ a multi-ethnic age-inverted cast. Go figure... it's an
equity theater & Austin's getting too many equity venues.
I walked into the part, almost as an accident, after six other actors
either didn't cut it or didn't come back... the challenge now is to
keep that edge & not jump my own lines now they've become
automatic ... that & know *what* to ad lib when I spoonerize my lines
(every actor's nightmare... saving yourself during a monologue ... or
ad libbing when someone else doesn't make the cue). My biggest
challenge is *not* psyching myself out if I flub (if I'm psyched out
the flubs will become viral for the rest of the show...) & getting
that adrenaline rush over with *BEFORE* I go out on the opening scene
(I open with 2 other actors...). There's nothing worse than a rush of
adrenaline coming at the wrong moment ... and then I still have to
cope anyway...
It's such a big mind game ... no wonder actors tend toward neuroses.
/leebert