Is That You In Your Avatar? Tonight at EIGHT!- Page 184

[Ivan the Wonderful]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 10:34pm

Oh good. Then we will be seeing lots of pictures with your clothes off? LOL

[polly2]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 10:35pm

i'm still working on homework & neither stagey nor j* have been on to help me

*pout*

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 10:38pm

Hah you're probably not...but right now my friend on the other side of th country is.

Akiva

Posted: 8/7/07 at 10:44pm

Hi Deet and Polly!

Phew, torture is over. The only good kids in the production were Rizzo, Danny, Jan, and Doody.

[polly2]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 10:44pm

doody *giggle*

sorry i always do that

Posted: 8/7/07 at 10:47pm

Heehee, me too!

This is me and our Doody. He was a doll.

[polly2]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 10:50pm

you were Jan? how sweet!

[D2]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 10:51pm

I played Vince Fontaine in GREASE years ago - I had a lot of fun with the role because I was cast way against type but I was still able to make it work. I got to do some real cool things with my voice that I knew I could do but hadn't ever done before. But the production, sadly, sucked. The director, well...

Posted: 8/7/07 at 10:54pm

Our Vince was excellent, but he didn't have any singing parts. He was just a man whore, which was hysterical. Don't you hate bad directors? I always get pissy when I feel that we could be changing stuff for the better, and the director won't let us.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 10:56pm

Bad directors are a pain, but it's even worse to have a director who's a pain in the ass.

[D2]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 11:03pm

This director just had no vision - she let the entire cast mimic the movie. She would have been fine if I'd done that too, but as I am no Edd Byrnes by any stretch of the imagination I couldn't have done that even if I wanted to. I played him very suave and Noel Cowardish, almost like Addison DeWitt in ALL ABOUT EVE. It was strange, but it worked.

Posted: 8/7/07 at 11:05pm

That's cool! Our show started rehearsals right arounf the time that that Grease casting show was on TV. We were forbidden to watch it, which really helped. Of course, most people did want to mimic the movie, but we had a couple of free spirits in the cast to spice it up.

[polly2]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 11:12pm

I think it's very difficult for some people to do a character that is so well known (like the characters from Grease are) and bring something original to it. Even if they don't mean to, that famous person who has done it, & done it well, is always in the back of their heads and they subconsciously attempt to imitate that

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 11:13pm

I have worked with the real-life equivalent of Corky from Waiting for Guffman. It was hideous and amazing at the same time.

Akiva

[D2]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 11:15pm

There's also that terribly narrow mindset that audiences bring into well known shows that if it isn't a carbon copy of what they're familiar with, it isn't good. An argument that I have no patience for.

And with that pronouncement, I'm off to bed. Night, Avs! Sweet dreams.

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 11:16pm

*ever so platonically rubs Akiva's shoulders*

Posted: 8/7/07 at 11:18pm

G'night Deet, dahhhling!

People got all upset when "You're the One that I Want" wasn't in the show...it's not supposed to be! Buttheads.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 11:19pm

Oh Jaily, you're so stealthy.

Posted: 8/7/07 at 11:27pm

Well, I'm off to bed. Night lovies!

[polly2]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 11:31pm

night dear!

jaily check your pm's

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 11:41pm

Jaily! Your hand just slipped! That is nowhere near my shoulders! and I don't think it was very platonic either!

Akiva

[harris007]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 11:47pm

lol

will you two just make out allready

[Undeniably Bway]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 11:51pm

I just spent the last 20 minutes trying to lock my front door. The humidity made the wood swell so much, that it wouldn't lock into place. There was no way I ws going to sleep without it locked. I finally got it.... but I'm sure my downstairs neighbor was none too thrilled with the noise I was making at this late hour.

Hope everyone had as nice an evening as I did (lock problem being the exception)

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 12:09am

Akiva, I am ONLY trying to help you out with your sciatica! You know how I hate seeing you in pain.


(Do you want the jasmine oil or the orange-blossom oil this time?)

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 12:29am

If either of them are anything like Ben-Gay keep them away from my crotch! I learned THAT lesson at a young age.

Akiva