Hey gang. Sorry bout the long time betwixt posts, but I've been slammed lately. Lots of new things: new job, new class I'm adjuncting at Asbury (directing) , new HOUSE, a 20 month old who's doing new things daily (and is quickly developing a vocabulary to exceed mine...) so LOTS of newness...but new is good. CHANGE is good. It's what keeps life fresh and interesting. But it can also be scary. Joy and I have been through lots of changes in our 13 years together, and we've rode them all out together and come out the other side better for it. "She's a great partner to go through life with...I tell you what!" (ala Hank Hill)
So, if I don't post as much in the next month or two, don't give up on us, baby...we'll be around...for now, riddle me this.
What cast experience was your greatest? What I mean is this: perhaps it wasn't the best show, or the most well received, but what cast did you have your greatest experience with. Were you particularly close? Did something happen to bring you together in a way that was atypical of other theatre experiences? Did you just PARTY a whole hell of alot? Sleep with four or five members of the ensemble? Whatever floats your boat...lemmee hear from you.
403 points for the reference. It ain't too tough if you're an 80's child...
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AhhhHa!!!! I know this one...INXS New Sensation...saw them in high school and almost peed in my pants.
This is a tough question because I have really great experiences in all the shows... REALLY! Lord, what a journey it has been.. from when I was young and dating cast members to when I was older and focusing on different aspects of the experiences. But several stand out:
*Psycho Beach Party at AGL in 91: My first paid theatrical performance. Billy Breed, Russell Henderson, Mickey Kachingwe, Tom Phillips...many others...great cast and a BLAST!!!!
*Lend Me a Tenor at UK: TONS of fun. We had a very wealthy stage manager who brought us dinner every night. Plus we partied a great deal...but we were in college..and times were LOOSE baby!!
*A Few Good Men at AGL: I was the only girl in the show....I mean, think about it...I felt like Scarlett O'Hara during the garden party.
* The Scottish Play at Lex Shakes-
I got to be evil and drench myself in fake blood...and my 1st Shakes Fest too.
*Cat on A Hot TIn Roof at AGL- Very challenging to be Maggie at that time in my life and the part had always been a dream of mine to play.
*3 Musketeers at Lex Shakes- I GOT TO THROW KNIVES!!!! (fun cast too)
*Sideman at AGL- so challenging beacause I felt shaky after being off the boards diring my divorce hiatus. Had a killer cast. Adam, Chris,...directed by one of the best directors I have ever had..THE Mr. X himself.
*Stop Kiss @ AGL: A challenge and I just felt great during that show. Although I hadn't really been away (just took a break because of the shakeup in my life) I felt "back."
Really I think it is hard to even narrow a list down..I truly can't pick just one because they all were amazing in their own way. You know we leave a little piece of us with each show and fill that piece with what we take away. Everytime. Good or
AhhhHa!!!! I know this one...INXS New Sensation...saw them in high school and almost peed in my pants.
This is a tough question because I have really great experiences in all the shows... REALLY! Lord, what a journey it has been.. from when I was young and dating cast members to when I was older and focusing on different aspects of the experiences. But several stand out:
*Psycho Beach Party at AGL in 91: My first paid theatrical performance. Billy Breed, Russell Henderson, Mickey Kachingwe, Tom Phillips...many others...great cast and a BLAST!!!!
*Lend Me a Tenor at UK: TONS of fun. We had a very wealthy stage manager who brought us dinner every night. Plus we partied a great deal...but we were in college..and times were LOOSE baby!!
*A Few Good Men at AGL: I was the only girl in the show....I mean, think about it...I felt like Scarlett O'Hara during the garden party.
* The Scottish Play at Lex Shakes-
I got to be evil and drench myself in fake blood...and my 1st Shakes Fest too.
*Cat on A Hot TIn Roof at AGL- Very challenging to be Maggie at that time in my life and the part had always been a dream of mine to play.
*3 Musketeers at Lex Shakes- I GOT TO THROW KNIVES!!!! (fun cast too)
*Sideman at AGL- so challenging beacause I felt shaky after being off the boards diring my divorce hiatus. Had a killer cast. Adam, Chris,...directed by one of the best directors I have ever had..THE Mr. X himself.
*Stop Kiss @ AGL: A challenge and I just felt great during that show. Although I hadn't really been away (just took a break because of the shakeup in my life) I felt "back."
Really I think it is hard to even narrow a list down..I truly can't pick just one because they all were amazing in their own way. You know we leave a little piece of us with each show and fill that piece with what we take away. Everytime. Good or bad.
SIDE MAN was pretty special. As a director, that might've been my favorite...
...."MUTHA-FUCKERS!!!"...
I KNEW THIS ONE!! dang it.
I think for me it was the last two years at AGL's old place on Short St.
The space, staff, and general welcome feeling made it a place were people could hang out.
Many times I would walk through and finding people rehearsing for other theatre groups. There was always someone in the office who could carry a decent conversation.
There were comfy chairs from the "dressing rooms" to the Tech office upstairs. Different groups of college kids had slumber parties on stage a couple of times.
The best part was that night after a show. The space was ours. We didn't have to leave 30 seconds after the show was done. Many nights smoking cigarettes, laughing at the audience or flubbed lines.
This was almost a second home to many of us. People were comfortable. So they had sex. A lot of sex. I hope all of you who think they were the "first" on any floor and in any room of that entire build; you are sadly mistaken. There were MANY before you.
True there was drunken debauchery. But there was not one person who was hurt, in an accident, or mugged after leaving the theatre. People watched out for each other. It was that kind of unique collection of "regulars" that made it so nice.
Those of you who were there may say I am polishing a turd. Think back. Am I wrong?
-Russell
Gotta go with **Side Man.** A great cast all around and a tip top notch crew. Nat and X and Katie rocked. And even rolled.
**Waiting for Godot** was my first trip back on the stage after a 3 year hiatus. And the last trip before another 2 year hiatus. The whole package. A great cast, a terrific director (Tim Soulis), a fabulous play, and that wonderful feeling of being back on the stage after a long absence. I still think about that one. Good times, man. Good times.
**In The Garden Of Live Flowers** was certainly one to remember. I think the majority of us felt a close kinship because we all knew we were in a sinking boat together. And the drama off stage was almost more (okay, more) entertaining than the show itself.
**Some Things You Need To Know Before The World Ends (A Final Evening With The Illuminati).** Just me and Ryan Case. We forged our bond during this show and had such a great time. Very fulfilling, personally. Very satisfying professionally.
THE RAINMAKER cast that I worked with in St.Pete, Fla., was very tight...It was where Larry Drake and I formed a close friendship and several other folk in the cast stayed long-time friends...even their children have become friends. Even the star, James Drury, would socialize.
Given that, we were all on tour and staying at the same apartments helped.
Our cast of Move Over, Mrs. Markham was a lot of fun. Cyd Charisse, the star, brought with her two wonderful older leadeing men who were excellent farceurs and one, Peter Pagan, a very witty, gay Australian, who had flirted with movie stardom Down Under (The Overlanders with Chips Rafferty) kept me in stitches most of the time, telling me lots of tales of his adventures on Broadway and film. He and I were also like clockwork onstage...lots of fun to work with. Cyd took a shine to me, so I was more or less invited into the inner circle and whenever she and Tony Martin, her husband, went out after the show, I was along.
During my EVERYBODY LOVES OPAL tour, the star...Maggie Raye...always wanted everyone to come over to her house for games or to watch old movies. I was commanded to bring my Yorkshire Terrier, Hotspur, with me, so he could play with her small dogs. She would plop her false teeth out on the coffee table and swill vodka till about three in the morning, regaling us with tales about various old movie stars in the movies we were watching or we'd play Password. Maggie used to call me the intellectual because I'd always give her clues she didn't understand.
The casts I worked with in Odessa at The Globe of the Great Southwest were pretty tight cause there was nothing else to do. But like all summer theatre groups, it seemed to go in patterns. You all grew to love each other the first month, somewhere in the second month factions would start...some folk you'd grow to hate, then by the end of the run, you're all lovey-dovey again swearing undying fidelity and to keep in touch. There was usually only a handful you kept in touch with.
The British actors and the British stunt crew kept my sanity for me on the set of DRAGONHEART when the script was being diminished. It was in some ways the best time I had and in others the worst. I hung out, drinking, with Pete Postlethwaite, Jason Isaacs, and Paul Weston who was the stunt co-ordinator. The funniest breakfast I ever sat through was with Peter Postlethwaite and David Thewlis who were hysterically vilifying the director... who was a venal, vicious, vituperative, vile little pig. Pete's comment about him: "Just figure out where to put the camera, mate. Let us do the thinking." The entire cast was unified in their antipathy for the director. Paul Weston, his right-hand man, Johnny Lees (God rest his soul), and the rest of his stunt crew kept me laughing long on the set and often into the night. Paul later invited Julieanne and I to the British Stunt Ball held at the Grosvenor House in London which is a raucous affair. He remains a good friend to this day.
Of course, the greatest cast experience was simply all of our cronies in the theatre department at UK. We all lived, breathed, ate, slept, and dreamed theatre. Back then, the green room of the Guignol was the theatre students' student union and where we all congregated between classes...some of us seemed to live there. There were always card games going on; conversations about art life, death, god; restaurant or movie outings or parties being planned. You could appear there at three in the morning and someone would be there...and usually Mary Stephenson would be there too. We did everything as a group and within that group more intimate friendships or love affairs blossomed. Friends I made there...like Roger Leasor and Eric Johnson...have remained. And, of course, it's where I met Julieanne.
Chuck, I remember James Drury from THE VIRGINIAN as a kid. My Dad was a huge fanatic for anything western, so I spent many a sunday afternoon in front of the TV with him and a young Doug McClure... good stuff. Glad to hear he wasn't a prick...
Have to say, and I am completely unbiased on this, best cast experience I had was a series of one acts. I wrote two of them and had a role in the third. The people I worked with, chosen because I respected them not necessarily because they were the best for the roles, all understood my sense of humor. That made all the difference in the world. Every time I do a show, it takes a few days for people to get a read on me, and for me to feel comfortable. Not having to go through that really helped me get over the anxiety of having an audience see something I wrote for the first time.
We didn't party together like some casts I've been in, and I didn't sleep with anybody in the cast like some casts I have been in (punny stuff there), but we all had a blast working on it. A last minute improv was added to the front of the show on opening night loosely choreographed to the tune of Dennis Leary's "I'm an asshole" and reminiscent of the old intro to the Cosby show. Seeing Dr. Rodgers in the front row, clapping enthusiastically and leading the chants of "A-S-S, H-O-L-E" was a sight I will never forget. And Mike Pafunda playing a young man with questionable mental abilities hunting gas station ninjas was brilliant.
-JB
"And Mike Pafunda playing a young man with questionable mental abilities hunting gas station ninjas was brilliant."
You pretty much described Pfunda, right there! (lol)
X, apparently James Drury could be "difficult". But there was never any evidence when I was with him. He was a heavy drinker at the time, Johnny Walker Red. Rarely saw him without a class in his hand. But it never affected his performance. Nor was he the ideal Starbuck. We had a review of the show where everyone in the cast got raves except for him. But he was very good to his cast. I worked with him again in Once More With Feeling a few years later. Saw Jim years later in Hollywood, Larry and I spent an afternoon visiting with him, and he was off the sauce. And he was just very nice, warm, and gracious. I would also see him occasionally at memorabilia shows, signing autographs and our visits were always pleasant. He was with the same woman (I think they eventually married) he had been with during The Rainmaker days and they were living in Houston...I think she was the heir to Church's Fried Chicken which was a big chain in Texas.
It was a toss-up, however, as to who had the worst toupe...him or Charlton Heston.
Yeah, CHURCH'S was big stuff in South Mississippi and New Orleans. They used to have LaWanda Paige shilling the stuff in these great TV ads. Her catch phrase was "Church's chicken...GOTTA love it!!!!"
I always thought Heston was rocking the wig...now I know!
BIG NEWS! I have just been hired as co-managing/artistic director at the Leeds Center for the Arts in Winchester, Ky. Ryan Case and I we be taking the helm. I start tomorrow.
You heard it here first.
Church's was big in Tulsa, too. It was the place you went if you wanted diarhea and a cheap meal.
And yeah, X., Pafunda...that's all I can say. One of those people that just puts a smile on my face whenever I hear his name.
-JB
Congrats Adam!
-JB
Adam, congrats! What does all this entail?
AWESOME dude...give us details!
-x
GO ADAM! hey, ya hiring?!?
-russell
Hell yes, Adam....and to Ryan, also!
Bob
Good question. The Leeds has been pretty quiet and dormant for a good long while. Ricky Skaggs was there a few weeks ago and Rhonda Vincent is coming in September. But other than that, the space is used for lectures, tour productions, and the like. But few and far between. I would like to see the Leeds become a place for vibrant, new and exciting theatre to take place. I'm also looking to set up an educational program for the Clark county school system in association with the Leeds Center. It would be nice for the LCA to be a place where folks on the eastern side of Winchester, who wouldn't normally get the chance to make it all the way to Lexington or Louisville to see a play or a production of something can make a trip out to the Leeds. It's going to take some time, but I think it can be done. And I'm going to be asking every one of you for help. So get ready.
Anyway. Back to your question....... Basically it will be taking over the day to day operations of the LCA. Market and budget work, acting as a liaison with the city and county government and the KY Arts Council, assist fund raising and grant writing activities, maintaing the website, arranging scheduling and rental agreements, and simply making sure the doors are open and that there is someone there. Luckily, it isn't entirely on my shoulders. Ryan Case, a Winchesterian himself, with long ties to the Leeds, is going to be there to help carry the load. It is really exciting.
Yeah, I'm a managing director. (that still sounds so farking strange) but I'm still an actor. You haven't gotten rid of me. But soon, I'm also going to be coming to you all, asking you all to work with me.
Check out www.leedscenter.com. It is old and outdated to some extent, but until we get a new site up and running, it gives you an idea of what they have been up to.
Hey Adam,
BCTC has a Winchester campus, and when we EXPAND out theatre program out that way...I smell collaboration! Interested?
Lemmee know...
I love the smell of what you're cooking. Absolutely!
Can U....
SMELLL-ELLL-ELLLLLLLLL....what the Xman is cookin'???????
ADAM, and Ryan too...
Just saw the website. ROCK ON BABy!!!.
Please let me know a good time to visit your theatre ...
(sounds good huh?!?)
... and tour the facilities. I know I can be of assistance to you.
-Russell
Hey Adam, Congrats to you and Ryan!
Very exciting stuff. Winchester is such a cute town--kinda looks like Lexington used to, from what I gather, before "urban renewal" tore down all the old, charming buildings and erected ugly glass boxes and parking garages.
Here's a name for you: Gina Lang (and her husband Larry Ertel). He's a doc, she's a mover and shaker an awesome PR/advertising person, and one smart cookie; they live in Winchester. She'd be great to have on your board, if you need members.
I think I got a job, too, but it's not nearly as exciting as yours.
On the topic at hand, I think I'd have to vote for a musical I wrote that was produced at The Dallas Theatre Centre in 1979, "Blood Money." Tightest cast and crew I ever worked with, including Russel Henderson as Herman Hesse and Philip Reeves (who plays the minister in "About Schmitt") as Neal Cassady. I'd go home every night after rehearsal and do rewrites, so excited I could barely contain myself. Costume and set designers and crews were astoundingly inventive, and we created this huge, controversial buzz in Dallas. Too much fun.
Here in Lexington, I'd have to vote for "XXX Love Act" at AGL.
Every character in that show was sleazy, and I've never had so much fun or comraderie onstage or off.
Probably my favorite roll ever, too. Although it's hard to beat the dying insect I played in "Garden of Live Flowers." Yipes!
Hey, this post is almost Pogue long.
"Pogue Long"...That could be a very flattering descripter, if applied appropriately.
Phil Reeves! Is this the same Phil Reeves that played the principal in Election and has had several cherce roles in other movies? If so, I know him slightly through my pal, Larry Drake. He and Lar worked a lot at the Old Globe in San Diego. They did George and Lenny in Of Mice & Men and were absolutely hysterical in Greater Tuna together. Fine actor and a hellva nice guy to boot!
OH LORD....it's been way too long since I've been on here. How's the new pad X? Can't wait to see it....and the fam. Hope everything is going well. To answer the question...I have two pics. Sideman @AGL, and The Foreigner @ Studio Players. Both were amazing experiences for me all around. X and Tonda are my two fav directors to work for. Sideman: Great script, great team all around. Nat is the best stage manager in the F'n world!!!! A f'n amazing cast. Mr. Luckey, Mr. Rose, Laurie Lou, Petey, Dave, Kate. The Foreigner: Funniest script that I had ever read at the time. Another great cast to work with. I've never worked so hard (physically)on stage in my life.
CONGRATS to Adam & Ryan!!!!!! I can't wait to see what you guys will do! I'm here until May of 07'. Let me know if you boys need any help. BTW....what are the performance dates for Copenhagen? CANNOT wait to see it.
HEY ALL SCIENCE GEEKS!
Do you know robotics? How about web development? Have you wanted to
design some kind of really cool machine? Ever thought of making a
wind tunnel for people? Do you like to educate children? DO you want
to write and produce a play on atomic theory or the like?
I really could go on... and on ...
There is no pay. BUT I promise, if you have a passion for it, I can
probably find a project for you!
Well hold on...we can't start fires or have things that shoot or
explode. Other than that the universe is the limit.
If you are able to take on a task and see it through fruition, you
will see it built and on display! A team of highly skilled
craftsmen, designers, and educators will help in your effort. For
high cost projects there are grant writers and fundraising.
Don't get me wrong, the bigger the project, the more that will be
asked of you.
As an example, I have built a tornado machine about 8' tall.
Unpacked and mounted a Dinosaur skull. Taught a class on
architecture were we built a 15' geodesic dome from rolled up
newspaper. I am in the middle of reworking an F16 simulator.
If this sounds interesting, or you have an idea, Please come visit me
or e-mail!
Russell Mendez
Director of Exhibits
Explorium of Lexington (Formally Lexington Children's Museum)
440 W. Short St.
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Adam & Ryoniuos-
Mucho congratulationsd to u. I'd give my left nut to work with u all....wait...I don't have a nut....or nuts...but anyway, its wonderful and I am jealous as hell. What a venture for u and i have all the faith in the world that you can do it. Love and broken legs to u both.
laurielou!
I would swear you have the biggest set of brass balls of any woman I have ever known!
love - Russell
Dammit, Russel you beat me to it:)
Hey Tim!
I’ve been reading your blog for a while now (since Mills asked us Divas to come and do so!) And it’s great to read that you and Joy and the family are doing well! We Mississippi Divas sure do miss you guys.
Now for the topic: When it comes to great cast experiences, of course I have to mention my two times in Southern Arena Theatre. Doing three shows in repertory, not to mention it being my first paying theatre job made it all good. And being in the summer, you get to focus totally on the shows. None of that pesky HOMEWORK gets in the way.
But for the best, I have to go with being a puppet wrangler/right hand on the PBS children's show Between the Lions. (Ask your preschooler. They'll know what it is.)
We all work hard and put in long hours, but it's not like work at all. You show up for the early crew call, laugh for the next 10 hours, go out to eat with the cast, go to bed, get up the next morning and do it all again! These guys actually invited me up to New York for a week… And I Went!! Lotsa fun.
I’m enjoying all you guys’ stories. Just thought I’d toss in one of my own.
Keri Grayson Horn
Ryan & Adam -- Many congratulations on this exciting news!!! Let me know what I can do to help you out, be it production-wise or just the general aspects of the non-profit world.
Missy -- Glad to hear your job news too!
On topic, I'd also have to toss in my vote for "Side Man". Everyone on that show was just fabulous and so professional. It was a joy to work with you all -- and it was one of those rare shows that pulled me in night after night, thanks to the great performances and -- natch! -- the direction of the X-man.
A close second for me was "Jesus Christ Superstar" at Shakes in '04. We had a rather large cast, but despite the size there were amazingly few dramas. Everyone worked their ass off for that show, and I think the final product reflected that. I also forged or re-inforced a few close friendships that I'm very grateful for.
Isn't anybody going to say that Boone was their best cast experience????!!!! HAH! I think I'll just leave that one for now...
Keri,
HEY! Glad to hear from you. Don't be a stranger...and yes, I know all about LIONS. Cool gig! Does that film in Jackson?
And for all you other MS DIvas lurking in the shadows...come on in! The water's fine...
Yep, Lions was filmed at the good ol' ETV studios for seasons 5&6 and we're slated to film seasons 7&8 for three weeks next February. Plus, the head writers for the show found out I do a little writing on the side, and they said they're gonna use me to do a little something for them! Sweet!
Don't worry, I won't be a stranger. Strange, yes, but not a stranger!
Keri
Mine are diamond...baby...diamond....u can cut glass with them
Little bad news for any EKU theatre fans/alumni...
http://www.easternprogress.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticle&uStory_id=56a69f2a-65f7-47dd-a065-e47ed5cc13f8
Thanks, D. One of my favorites that we were in together was the cast of SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS.
Not only was that a great young, tight cast (you and me were the old men of that group, $) but, of course, it's also the first show I did with my baby's Mama...In grad school it was hard to beat the RAT IN THE SKULL experience. Four guys just bashing their heads togehter nightly...lots of gritty energy. Loved plyaing of those guys, especially Robert Fisher.
Here in Lex Vegas, it's very hard to beat my SIDE MAN cast. Great bunch of guys and gals. I really felt like we were all working a the top of our game.
And, Nat, fYI, I loved BOONE 01- that cst was very special to me. I met Mr Tuttle,ho would become one of my lifelong compadres, and the vibe in that cast really was kinda magical. Great, positive talented 24 hour party people! Good times, indeed. That show really helped bring me out of a dark time, and I'll alwyas remember everyone involvd very fondly.
The Nashville touring production of "Three Cheers For the Peanut Gallery" was just plain fun. who says you cant work with family?? A husband writer/director and brother actor.
Also that first production of Peanut if for no other reason then i gained an appreciation of "method" acting. Who says you cant give the performance of your life while half lit on stage???
...perhaps it just "felt" like the performance of our lives.
oh yeah......STOP SPENDING MONEY!!
Pogue,
My Phil Reeves is probably yours, as he was in several LA Law episodes, playing witnesses, psychiatrists, etc., and I bet that's where he met your Mr. Drake. Or they already knew each other, and so got to appear on the small screen together. I worked with Phil in Dallas, where he met and married his first wife, and then my ex and I lived in the garage apartment behind their house when the four of us moved to Oklahoma City to try to resurrect the OK Theatre Centre. (They also shoveled their share of pigeon sh*t.) We sat through many a tornado together in the root cellar! He is a great guy. Totally wacked, but a great guy.
Do tell Julianne that I won't be applying ANYTHING--appropriately or in--to Pogue Long. I do plan to check out Laurie's diamond baguettes, though.
Missy,
Definitely the same Phil Reeves. I remember him in About Schmidt as well. I think he and Drake met at the Old Globe in San Diego. Were you at the Dallas Theatre Centre? Because Larry was there as well, but I don't think that's where he knows Phil from. He was there in '78-'79.
Is this 6 degrees or what?
1979 was the year Blood Money was done at DTC's Play Market. I was there as a grad student/journeyman from '75 to '79, but I sure don't remember Larry Drake. Of course, I don't remember much of anything these days.
If Drake was there those years, though, he certainly would've met Phil, and he'd probably remember his Neal Cassady, which was an absolutely spectacular performance.
After Oklahoma City fell apart, Phil ended up touring with a bus-and-truck of Children of a Lesser God cast by Medoff himself. (They knew each other in Las Cruces, NM.) During the course of the tour, Phil fell for the female lead and asked his then-wife if it'd be okay if they all lived together! Poof! Divorce!
X and all, sorry for the off-topic diversion. Y'all come see me at Decoratifs. I start working there on Monday. If you need any lovely Xmas stuff, baby, it's the place. Great for gifts for Mom, too.
All I remember is that Larry and I were supposed to meet up in LA in 1978. I was out touring with Maggie Raye in San Clemente and Anaheim. I got to LA proper in fall of '78. I remember because I was watching the World Series from my new apartment as well as watching them tear down the old Hollywood sign and build the new one.
Lar, fell in love and got waylaid for maybe a year, I don't remember, so he may have been at DTC during '77-'78. But I thought that and the romance were all going on at the same time. It seems to me, he and I were touring in North Carolina (with Jim Drury, Tim, in Once More With Feeling) in late summer of '79. But I have a vague memory before I left Dallas, Drake was doing Jumpers at Theatre Three, and was not yet at the Dallas Theater Center. But then I was touring most of '77-'78. So I don't know! It all begins to blur! I know he went to the Theater Center for a while and I'm pretty sure he walk away with a masters (or maybe he was just finishing the degree he never got at OU...Hell, I can't remember the details of my own life, how am I supposed to remember his?)
So you were there from 75-79. Pretty much the years I was in Big "D". Did you know Cindy McHugh? Tommy McKendrick?
I guess I met Mrs. Phil Reeves the Second. Who have thunk it? Phil never impressed me as a wild and crazy guy, but those were wild and crazy times!
I can verify that Laurie has diamond balls. I've shared a dressing room with her. They're very pretty. :) BTW Miss Genet-Preston....I was going through some old pics the other day....and found some HILARIOUS pics of you and I backstage ,and in the dressing room during Sideman. I'll have to send them.
NATALIE CUMMINS..... I MISS YOU!!!!! You had better come see us in Lonestar!!!!!
Oopsss...the last post is me....Shayne
Last Phil Reeves post from me, I promise.
The last wife I heard about was named Christy. Was that the one you met, Pogue? 'Cause there for sure could've been several since my friend Shannon.
Anyway, it's always a kick to see Phil onscreen. One of my few brushes with semi-fame.
Pogue, I didn't know the folks you mention from Big D. I really didn't know anyone outside of the Theatre Centre, as we poor grad students had little time for anything other than studies and constant crew work. Outside work or contacts? Definitely discouraged.
The folks I mentioned were Theater Center folk. That's why I thought you might have known them.
The SIDEMAN cast...rocked out!!!!!
I loved everyone in it and around it....
Shayne was incredible to watch everynight...I loved having a son..."oooooh Clifforddd!"
The coolest lit stage kiss ever with Adam...and the first time I think I have ever blushed onstage....he's so intense! and incredibly talented....
Chris was great and a fantastic junkie...and what a connected performer.
Not to lump the rest of ya'll....but it was top notch from every angle
And X....not only great as an actor, he has the "magic" as a director...
Let's put it up again!
Well, now I know I have no memory.
Neither of those names rings a bell.
Were they company members? Grad students? I'm totally stumped.
Syd was a grad student, I think. Tommy, I believe, was a company member but I could be wrong and he was just a grad student. Didn't know him well; he was with my agent as were Randy Moore, Ed Herrman, and other. But my memory fades on all this as well...
oops, Syd was also Cindy...if you found that confusing.
Okay, Randy Moore and wife Norma both taught vocal production and were longtime company members.
I went to DTC's web site and searched for the other two names, but nothing came up. That doesn't really mean anything, though, since the archives are spotty.
But enough about DTC.
Hey, Groovy. Mike and I are in Winchester - close to Leeds. :)
Missy J.
Contact me at PhilReeves@aol.com. Blood Money lives ;-)
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I miss the times at UK with you guys and just saw this blog.
let me guess laurie lou is laurie ganet or is it hardesty still. never could keep up with you. You were always trying to fix some guys problems.
Maria who is the Rental Agent at Sahara Palms Apts. Protect Rapist Daniell Grant, for some unknow reason.Thier relationship is unknow at this time. She was over heard laughing at how The Victim was tormented and RAPED she thought it was funny how Grant talked about victim.Ms Grant who resides at the apts. Danielle Grant 23, of Las Vegas is a RAPIST, she and another man used a date rape drug on Victim at Sahara Palms Apartments 2900 El Camino ave. apt 170, Danielle L Grant sodomized the victim with a plunger. She is lite skinned 4'6 to 4'7 and she drives a Black Ford Focus, She works as an dental assistant during day. STOP her please. Victim is too ashamed to tell Police. Memory just now coming back. Danielle L Grant MUST BE STOPED. She is a drug addict and dealer ( Lortab and Meth,weed ) sometimes works as a Vegas Escort/Prostitute when she needs money. If you have information on her criminal activities Please contact the Las Vegas Police Dept.
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