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This morning, I was one of several actors featured in a Minnesota Public Radio piece about how actors memorize their lines. The piece also included Mo Perry, Leigha Horton, and Steven Epp.
Chris Roberts caught up with me at Caffetto last week for an interview and to record snippets of me actually working on line memorization.
Go to MPR’s website to listen to the entire piece and see photos.
You need a bed?
The Slumberland commercial I shot is running! Editing will decide whether I also make it into a second spot and/or the print campaign. I’m crossing my fingers.
Click here to watch the spot. It’s the one labelled “Dream Team.”
In other TV commercial news, my buddy and former NTC tour partner Mike Rylander‘s “Snack Attack Samurai” Doritios ad was apparently the single most-seen commercial minute in television history. 116.2 million people were tuned in for it, breaking a record previously set during the M*A*S*H series finale. Hooray!
I’ve just started rehearsal for Joseph Scrimshaw’s Adventures in Mating, which will go to New Richmond and Washburn, Wisconsin, on Valentine’s Day weekend.
From the Joking Envelope website:
Adventures in Mating is an audience interactive romantic comedy inspired by the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure novels of the 70s and 80s. YOU play the role of cruel fate! When the dysfunctional couple on a terrible blind date can’t make simple decisions such as red or white wine, leave or stay, kiss or slap the audience votes and the show takes off in wildly different but always hilarious directions.
It’s a very funny script, and I’m having a lot of fun playing with it. I don’t do enough comedies.
Joseph’s doing a major rewrite (he’s produced this play several times already), extending it into a two-act play. Since it’s a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure play, there are lots of different scenes to learn, so I’ll be cramming one metric buttload of lines into my brain.
I’m also in rehearsal for The Spanish Tragedy. Rehearsing two shows, each quite challenging in their own way, makes me glad to be dayjob-free. Until I have to buy food, that is.
Allons-y!
“pretend Scottish accent”
So, tonight was our second read-through/meeting about A Candid World, a Revolutionary War-era play by Dawn Brodey for the Lights Up! series at the Illusion Theatre.
My character is Davy, a Scottish soldier in the British army, and I am supposed to have a “thick Scottish accent.” Now, I like to think that I’m pretty good with dialects, though I’ve discovered that (somehow) I’m better at speaking extemporaneously with a Scottish accent than I am at applying it to my actual lines in the script, but hey…I’ve got a month or so, right?
Anyway, tonight, I just so happened to find a YouTube channel of a Scottish gentleman named Mark Day, and I will make him my unwitting mentor. Here is his scathing indictment of the Snuggie, featuring his cat Mr. Saunders.
Quinton Skinner reviews Some Girl(s) in the current issue of City Pages, calling it “compellingly performed”:
Some Girl(s) hones in on lonesome men
You can find Rohan Preston‘s review of Some Girl(s) in the Star Tribune, and while he was unimpressed by the script, he lauds the acting and the production. Check out the unfortunately-titled review:
Man, this show has been going great! I’m really proud of the work we’re all doing, and it’s nice to see that critics and audiences are responding favorably. I really get off on hearing the audiences’ horrified reactions and incredulous laughter.
Two more weekends left! Four performances down, six to go!
The Pioneer Press has published Dominic Papatola‘s review, and thankfully, it’s another good one!
‘Some Girl(s)’ has sharp staging, creepy characters
Tonight is our Pay What You Can! Come on down to Pillsbury House for cheap theatre on a Monday night!
Jay Gabler‘s review is up at the Twin Cities Daily Planet, and it’s our best so far. He says…
The ensemble of actors onstage…in Walking Shadow’s searing production are as collectively compelling as any cast I’ve seen this year, in anything.
In the hands of Balcom and his cast, LaBute’s play is appropriately chilly but also heartbreakingly human. It’s an exceptionally powerful show.
Read the full review at TC Daily Planet.
Playwright T. James Belich has reviewed Some Girl(s) on his blog, and he gives it “five out of five stars.”
Wethern gives a wonderful performance, oozing good intentions, and aptly portraying Guy’s inability to figure out how to connect to these different woman.
Each of the woman gives a strong performance as well, particularly Anna Sundberg’s fun-loving Tyler
…everything seems to flow so seamlessly together, credit must go out to the director…Brian Balcom
Read the full review at Mr. Belich’s blog.
Photo by Aaron Fenster
Some Girl(s) had a great opening last night! The audience seemed to confirm our suspicions that we have a pretty good play on our hands, and our first review is already out. John Olive reviewed us favorably at How Was The Show. Enjoy my “rumpled aplomb,” won’t you?
Read John Olive’s review of Some Girl(s) on HowWasTheShow.com.
We also got a mention from Dominic Papatola in a Pioneer Press piece about non-Christmasy shows going on right now. Unfortunately, he makes a factual error, saying my character Guy is “approaching 40″ (He’s just into his 30′s), but I’m not gonna quibble with good press.
Visit walkingshadowcompany.org to make your reservation for Some Girl(s)! Also, this upcoming Monday is our Pay What You Can performance.
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