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Other actors on the board?
erikaamato
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/12/04
#50re: Other actors on the board?
Posted: 9/15/04 at 11:25am
Hi, Rathnait62! That's great! I'm confused, though. Didn't you just tell me you can't get any work in NY 'cause you're "not a professional?" Is this as part of your workshop? Or for school? (Sorry, I don't know how old you are.) 
#51re: Other actors on the board?
Posted: 9/15/04 at 11:31am
I am a studying actor, and I've just been cast in three roles in "The Laramie Project":
Dennis Shepard
Jedadiah Schultz
Harry Woods
erikaamato
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/12/04
#52re: Other actors on the board?
Posted: 9/15/04 at 11:40amCongrats, broadway86! I hear that's a great play! (Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to see a production of it yet.)
#53re: Other actors on the board?
Posted: 9/15/04 at 11:42am
It's the workshop I'm doing - we're doing a production of FIDDLER. It's Encores! style - on book, and it they aren't casting too much by looks/age, but more on suitability for the role. I'm one of the few who are singers more than actors, so I ended up with the singing role. I'm excited!
erikaamato
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/12/04
#54re: Other actors on the board?
Posted: 9/15/04 at 11:48am
Rathnait62: Well, that's awesome! You'll have a great time. Hodel is the best female role other than Golde, in my opinion. Although, I have to point out that while it is the role with the prettiest ballad, and therefore needs to go to a real singer, it also requires good acting chops. (Particularly when Perchik gets attacked at the wedding and when you're saying goodbye to Tevye at the train station.) So, you'll definitely get to test that side of your abillity. You'll have fun. 
#55re: Other actors on the board?
Posted: 9/15/04 at 11:51amI love acting too, and since this is a workshop where they'll be coaching and working intensely on that, I'm hoping I'll be able to pull it off - but it's not my strong suit.
ShineOn
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/03
#56re: Other actors on the board?
Posted: 9/15/04 at 11:51am
Rath has a FABULOUS voice! She could easily be cast in a professional show... she's just too much of a perfectionist to actually go out there and DO IT. :-P
I'm a singer/actor, too. Recently started auditioning out here in NY. I'm a youngin'.... trying to break my way into the biz. Same ole, same ole.
~Stewart Gilligan Griffin
#57re: Other actors on the board?
Posted: 9/15/04 at 11:54am
Thank you, sweetie.
Daisy Hilton will have a substantial role on Broadway within three years. Rathnait, the Broadway Psychic, has spoken!!!
ShineOn
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/03
#58re: Other actors on the board?
Posted: 9/15/04 at 11:55am
Aww.
I dunno 'bout that, but here's hoping! *raises her glass*
~Stewart Gilligan Griffin
#59re: Other actors on the board?
Posted: 9/15/04 at 11:56amI said, Rathnait, the Broadway psychic, has spoken!!! Do not question her!!
erikaamato
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/12/04
#60re: Other actors on the board?
Posted: 9/15/04 at 12:02pm
Hi, Daisy! That's great! I'm sure you'll do wonderfully. I personally have never auditioned in NY, but I hear it's a toughie. Been living in LA ever since college...came out here planning to be a film and TV actress and somehow ended up doing theater professionally. Weird. I do get submitted by my agent for Broadway from time to time (and even get the appointment and a callback or two), so who knows? Maybe I'll get back over there someday! (I grew up in NJ)
And Rath, I bet Daisy's right...just go out there and do it!
#61re: Other actors on the board?
Posted: 9/15/04 at 12:14pmIt's definitely too late for me to be a pro, Erika. But I can still have fun with it!
BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#62re: Other actors on the board?
Posted: 9/15/04 at 12:25pmI am not an actor, but am an aspiring lighting designer. I am currently working on getting into NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Who knows? I might start out at Disneyland!
erikaamato
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/12/04
#63re: Other actors on the board?
Posted: 9/15/04 at 12:26pm
Of course you can have fun with it! But if the "62" in your screenname means you were born in '62, you're not too old to do anything you freakin' want to.
OK, I am going to be late if I don't leave now. Talk to you later!
~E
#64re: Other actors on the board?
Posted: 9/15/04 at 12:27pm
Yes, that's what it means. In 25 years I'll be ready for Mrs. Potts. Hmmm, maybe I'll be one of those retirees from the corporate world who becomes a professional performer.
Link Larkin Wanabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#65re: Other actors on the board?
Posted: 9/15/04 at 2:15pm
I am a proffessional non-equity actor, who is paying myt way through college with acting gigs (I have no intent on doing it for a living, just as a hobby.) I just finished a hugely sucsessful run of Fiddler, and I was Motel. Gah I miss that character so much...and the show in general.
Akiva
Updated On: 9/15/04 at 02:15 PM
#66re: Other actors on the board?
Posted: 9/15/04 at 2:18pmWe need to have a FIDDLER support group!
Link Larkin Wanabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#67re: Other actors on the board?
Posted: 9/15/04 at 2:26pm
Hah...agreed...actually, no joke, me and my friends have one online. Our cast became REALLY tight and then at the end of the summer we all split up all over the world, so we keep in touch on a message board we set up. Gotta love technology.
Akiva
Link Larkin Wanabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#68re: Other actors on the board?
Posted: 9/15/04 at 2:27pm
Hah...agreed...actually, no joke, me and my friends have one online. Our cast became REALLY tight and then at the end of the summer we all split up all over the world, so we keep in touch on a message board we set up. Gotta love technology.
Akiva
#69re: Other actors on the board?
Posted: 9/15/04 at 2:37pm
I am still in high school ( my senior year) but I also do theatre every chance I can. I am going to be going to college next fall to get my BFA in Musical Theatre. My mom thinks I should look at maybe auditioning at disneyland or World or even a cruise ship as a character. I also thought it would be so much fun. So I would like to know about it! I have a knack for kids and I love to perform more than anything in the world!
Lemme know! Have a wonderful day!
*Amy
#70re: Other actors on the board?
Posted: 9/15/04 at 8:29pm
Rath & Link,
A Fiddler support group would be great! I have been suffering from Fiddler withdrawal for a couple of months. I produced and acted in a recent run of the show here in Nebraska.
Rath--you will love the role of Hodel. I was Mordcha the Innkeeper (not a huge role, but alot of fun).
#71re: Other actors on the board?
Posted: 9/15/04 at 8:36pmThanks. I'm definitely excited! I haven't done a show in years, not since before I moved to NYC. I'm thrilled to have this opportunity.
#72re: Other actors on the board?
Posted: 9/15/04 at 8:40pmI'm a senior in high school, too. Lookin' to go to college for Musical Theatre. The last show I did was Brighton Beach Memoirs, where I was Stanley. What an absolutely great show. That's one of my favorite shows to have acted in. Lots of comedy and emotion!
#73re: Other actors on the board?
Posted: 9/15/04 at 10:44pmBump cause I know there are many others here who have not yet posted...show yourselves!
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#74re: Other actors on the board?
Posted: 9/16/04 at 5:15am
For the Fiddler support group:
My mother, an Equity actress, has played Yente in five different productions between 1972 and 1990, running anywhere from three to nine months, for a total of over two years in the role.
At the age of 71, she could do it again, but would really rather not!
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