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[jrb_actor]

Posted: 6/14/04 at 11:48am

Actually, we should be talking about Eddie's assets--this is his thread after all. His assets are awesome and amazing. And you can actually see them in person.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 6/14/04 at 12:09pm

The Mystery Plays, Very Good Eddie Top CT Critics Circle Awards
By Robert Simonson
14 Jun 2004


The 14th annual Connecticut Critics Circle Awards, honoring outstanding achievement in Connecticut theatre during the 2003-04 season, have been announced.

The awards ceremony will be held June 21 at 7 PM at Yale Repertory Theatre. The hosts are James Bundy, Artistic Director of Yale Rep, and actress Jayne Atkinson.

The winners follow:

Outstanding Production of a Play
The Mystery Plays - Yale Repertory Theatre

Outstanding Production of a Musical
Very Good Eddie - Goodspeed Musicals

Outstanding Actress in a Play
Jill Clayburgh in All My Sons - Westport Country Playhouse

Outstanding Actors in a Play
Hamish Linklater in Hamlet - Long Wharf Theatre
Cody Nickell in Visiting Mr. Green - Stamford Theatre Works

Outstanding Actress in a Musical
Julia Kiley in Follies - River Rep at the Ivoryton Playhouse

Outstanding Actor in a Musical
Randy Rogel in Very Good Eddie - Goodspeed Musicals

Outstanding Director of a Play
Oskar Eustis for The Long Christmas Ride Home - Long Wharf Theatre

Outstanding Director of a Musical
Gary John La Rosa for La Cage aux Folles - Downtown Cabaret Theatre

Outstanding Choreography
Dan Siretta for Very Good Eddie - Goodspeed Musicals

Outstanding Set Design
Adrian W. Jones for The Dazzle - TheaterWorks

Outstanding Lighting Designs
T. J. Gerckens for Metamorphoses - Hartford Stage
S. Ryan Schmidt for The Mystery Plays - Yale Repertory Theatre

Outstanding Costume Design
Suzy Benzinger for Very Good Eddie - Goodspeed Musicals

[Phantom2]

Posted: 6/14/04 at 2:11pm

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 6/15/04 at 8:04am

Varley, did you escape from Ohio?

[Phantom2]

Posted: 6/15/04 at 2:56pm

I hope he doesn't end up like MJ. How old were the contestants?? Ugh!

Updated On: 6/15/04 at 02:56 PM

[EddieVarley]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 9:30am

Ok dear friends, I must tell you about this past weekend's Miss Junior America Pageant in Ohio...oh what a show it was, um, shall we say, a NIGHTMARE and a THRILL all in one.

Let's start with the "talent", there was an 11 year old girl who sang "Touch me in the Morning", and an all white tone deaf rap group called, "Traffik Jamz" who pretty much made my weekend if not my YEAR! Followed by a "jazz" singer who warbled off key so much I fear she might topple over....then of course there was the gals....all a bundle of nerves and excitement.
Well all except one lass, named Vicky Beemer, who was the most vicious and spiteful and AMAZING creature I've ever laid eyes on in my 38 years on the planet..she actually hissed at one of the girls who stepped on her dress!

"WATCH IT SSSSSSSSTUPID!" She then turned to me with a fake smile and said, "Thanks for being so niiiiiiiice",... "At least one of us is.." I replied with my OWN fake smile!

As usual by the end I was adlibbing like crazy to the stunned faces of the local parents, by time I sang "Special Angel" to the departing Queen I feared they might rush the stage and bash me!
After the show it was Coors Light and ten cent wings with the crew which is always a hoot, then off to bed and wake up for next morning's "teen adventure" a smaller scale show to train the up and comers!Then an "acting" seminar with the agents who are the judges of the show in which all the girl's dreams of superstardom are sent packing to the land of painful reality!

Little did I know that the adventure wasn't over, because due to weather conditions I was stuck in the airport from 4pm Sunday until 10:15 AM Monday!Not AMAZING! But it was worth it to have witnessed "Traffik Jamz" bust a move on the dance floor...by the middle of the first song they were out of breath, instead of even trying to give any kind of performance they just kept running around screaming "What?WHAT!" and sweating like swine in a holler!

I told them backstage they should change their name to either "Out2Lunch" or "Expandin'Waistlinez"...it was met with that deaded eyed look of a POW..Oh well at least I'm back and with you all, and I've got Texas to look forward to in a few weeks, and they take their pageant in a VERY serious manner down those there parts!

So, what have I missed?

[ckeaton]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 9:34am

Damn you Vicky Beemer!!!
There's a classification post what I wrote.
Everybody wants to be an 'Eddie Varley'. :)


From www.missjramerica.com
"Hi! Thank you so much for choosing me as your N. Kansas City Queen! I hope to help my community and meet many different people from around my state and will be back next year to try again, with more self-esteem, more confidence, and a huge smile, knowing, like Kimberly said, 'I am perfect just the way God made me.' Thank you so much! And don't forget that Eddie Varley... he's a fine looking piece of man"
~ Megean Rose, MO

Updated On: 6/16/04 at 09:34 AM

[EddieVarley]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 9:49am

I am so thankful I have my own classification, as I'm truly mixed up! haha

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 10:17am

I feared for your life Varley! I was beginning to think that RightSaidRick had staged an Ohian abduction. Little did I know that it was the curse that Vicky Beemer obviously put on you for that "nice" retort that did you in. Don't mess with hissing beauty gals! I know, believe me I know! Glad you are back.

"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a handsome and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "WOW--WHAT A RIDE!!!!""

[beacon1]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 10:51am

BTW...where IS RightSaidRick?

He's been suspiciously...chillingly...silent.

Does the warm weather effect his "hobbies" or is he just too busy still recovering from post-Tony festivities.

Perhaps someone should check the last time Mr. Shaiman posted, too!

[Phantom2]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 12:25pm

Eddie- Who writes your material??

[EddieVarley]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 12:27pm

Thanks Phantershizzle, Me, Myself and Irene!

[Phantom2]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 12:29pm

No problem, Eddie "Parsley" Varley III.

[EddieVarley]

Posted: 6/17/04 at 9:35am

Thanks Phantyum...hey has anyone seen The Stepford Wives?

[Phantom2]

Posted: 6/18/04 at 12:19pm

Remember the people who bring you to the top!!

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 6/18/04 at 12:20pm

ha ha ha ha ha ha

[Phantom2]

Posted: 6/18/04 at 12:21pm

Down boy!

[EddieVarley]

Posted: 6/18/04 at 12:28pm

Ahhh, P2 and BWYG2 have arrived, my in-call can begin!

[Phantom2]

Posted: 6/18/04 at 12:30pm

Excuse me? What kind of a 3-way is going on here??

[EddieVarley]

Posted: 6/18/04 at 12:35pm

Ok, Ok, let's keep it clean!

Thank You and Good Day!

[Phantom2]

Posted: 6/18/04 at 12:39pm

I'm very clean...all over!!
Thank you and goodbye!

[EddieVarley]

Posted: 6/18/04 at 12:41pm

Clean as a whistle..Goodbye and Thank You!

[Phantom2]

Posted: 6/18/04 at 12:44pm

Knock-knock...What do you do with a whistle?

[beacon1]

Posted: 6/18/04 at 12:49pm

Eddie,

You keep getting boosted to the top here--not that that's a bad thing...

I think you zoom to the top more often than than the esteemed, talented and very long-suffering (just ask RSR) Marc Shaiman.

It makes me grin to see this long-standing thread just reappear over and over and over... :o)

Here's my contribution to your maintaining top-billing on this board.

beacon1 :o)

Updated On: 6/18/04 at 12:49 PM

[EddieVarley]

Posted: 6/18/04 at 12:50pm

beacon1, I thank YOU..and RSR will keep you on his "slow" list for being so nice to me!