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Phaedre and Being Topless on Stage

That is correct. N2T announced auditions for Phaedre, director Damon Dearing's adaptation of the Greek play, and I will be going out for the part of Ismene who also doubles as Aphrodite. I auditioned for this play last year and would have gotten the part had I not been going to Vegas. Needless to say the lesson has been learned and I will have zero conflicts ever again.

Getting this part means being topless on stage. I am down with this because in this case it's art. It's not some gratuitous love scene or something sketchy: it's the Goddess of Love. I really like this part, as being the side kick is always more fun than the lead, and I would love the chance to be topless in a tasteful way on stage. I can also safely say that if I get cast the show will immediately sell out. I have a huge chest. You know you saw it coming.

I've got my sides and my audition date on the 10th all lined up. I am going to kill this part. I love the language and I am chomping at the bit to finally work with N2T. And to get to the gym to work out like a mofo.

The Play About The Naked Guy

Got a callback for this badboy TONIGHT. Dig it. It's a really fun play with a bunch of fags and a gay porn star. My character is pregnant which is fun in and of itself. It's a Stray Cat production with the director from Nearly Naked at the helm. I'm going over my sides now.


I read my post there about being bummed after that last show I didn't get cast in. Man, I need to lighten up. It's not like I'm ever going to STOP auditioning. Plays and movies end and then it's on to the next one. It's not like interviewing for a job you hope to have for five years, unless it's a sitcom and even then shows get canceled. Yeah, it gets frustrating to get so close and then not get the part but man, that's how it goes. You're not going to get every part you go out for. I have done a far better job regulating my emotional investment in auditions and I have realized I need to scale it back even more. Good. I like this. This is where I need to be. I have friends in LA who go on a couple of auditions a DAY, you think they have time to get all up in arms about ONE gig? No! Suck it up, man!

Tough love on myself. That sound perverted. Nice.

Loco Locals Climb 2010 - Kicking Cancer's Ass VI

It's time again for us to band together and bank up some good karma for 2010 - For the sixth year running, the Loco Locals will be climbing South Mountain to KICK CANCER'S ASS!

Climb To Conquer Cancer
Saturday, February 27, 2010

Walk with us if you can, or please donate if you cannot walk. So many of us have been personally affected by cancer, and we'll keep walking until we have a cure.

The all important t-shirt deadline is January 28, 2010, so expect me to be hounding you until at least 10 of you sign up.

Join, Donate, or Get Out of the Way!

And so it goes.

And another rejection email. No part for me in the farce. I did the best job I could do and I can't do no more. It's just getting to the point where I wonder if my best will ever be good enough. I have yet to be cast in a play since moving back here 2 years ago. Another $10 wasted on yet another play to add to my bookshelf that I'll likely never read again. Meanwhile all anyone in this valley seems to want to do is musicals and I don't sing. It's getting tiring to not have any payoff here. At least I'm getting called back? Someday I'll get cast again? I really needed a win, man. I just keep getting handed strikes. The tide's gotta change, right? Right?

Who's looking for new music?

I rock Creamy Radio online while I'm at work. I keep a running list of songs I like on my Yahoo Notes. I'd like to share my list with you and suggest you dig on some of these tunes. Go to www.creamyradio.com and request them to check 'em out.

In convenient Excel spread sheet, alphabetized form. Artist, Song Title, Album.

Alien Ant Farm - Glow -truANT
Amelia - Better Than Sleeping Alone - After All
Anjulie - Boom - Boom
Beck - Jack-Ass - Odelay
Berkly Hart - Across the Rubicon - Twelve
Better Than Ezra - Extra Ordinary - Closer
Better Than Ezra - Get You In - Closer
Better Than Ezra - Misunderstood - Closer
Better Than Ezra - Recognize - Closer
Blind Mellon - Tones of Home - Blind Mellon
Butch Walker - My Way - Left of Self-Centered
Butterfly Boucher - Life is Short - Flutterby
Charlie Mars - One Horse Town - One Horse Town
Chris Robinson & the New Earth Mud - If You See California - This Magnificent Distance
Damien Rice - The Blower's Daughter - O
Danielle Howle and the Tantrums - Sneaky AM - Skorborealis
Del Amitri - It's Never Too Late to Be Alone - Twisted
Dispatch - General - Bang Bang
Don DiLego - California - The Lonesome Hitchhiker Volume 1
Fruit Bats - Born in the 70s - Spelled in Bones
Hello Dave - West - Golden
Homie - American Girls - Meet the Deedles Soundtrack
Hootie and the Blowfish - Time - Cracked Rear View
Jackie Green - So Hard To Find My Way - American Myth
Jed's a Millionaire - Gotta Believe - Kachina Theater
Jeff Finlin - Sugar Blue - Elizabethtown Soundtrack
Jurassic 5 - Concrete and Clay - Improvise
Kacey Chambers - Freight Train - The Captain
Kings of Leon - Day Old Blues - Aha Shake Heartbreak
Laura Sawasko - Last Brave One - Piecing it together
Limbeck - Silver Things - Hey, Everything's Fine
Locksley - Why Not Me - Don't Make Me Wait
Los Lonley Boys - Hollywood - Live at the Fillmore
Love Me Nots - Love What I Got -Upsidedown Insideout
Love Seed Mama Jump - Peace Frog - Drunk at the Stone Balloon
Matt Nathanson - Angel - Beneath These fireworks
Matt Nathanson - Suspended - Beneath These Fireworks
MiGGs - Perfect - Insomnia
Mike Doughty - (I Keep On)Rising Up - Sad Man Happy Man
Mike Dougty - Ways and Means - Rockity Roll
Nick Dastardly and the Escape Artists - The Sleeping Giant Walks Tonight - Let Go of My Bruised Wing
Nini Camps - I Saw Love - Driving You Out
Norah Jones - Be Here To Love Me - Feels Like Home
Oasis - Wonderwall
Pearl Jam - Come Back - Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam - Just Breathe - Backspacer
Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter - Lost Dogs
Rachael Yamagata - Over and Over - Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart
Ray LaMontagne - You Are the Best Thing - Gossip in the Grain
Red Wanting Blue - Your Alibi - Pride-The Cold Lover
Remedy Motel - Giving Ground - Remedy Motel
Remy Zero - Over the Rails & Hollywood High - The Golden Hum
Sam Champion - Texas Song - Slow Rewind
Sam Champion - You Can't See the Stars in This Town - Slow Rewind
Shawn Mullins - Blue As You - 9th Ward Pickin' Parlor
Sister Hazel - Walls and Cannonballs - Release
Teddy Thompson - Altered State - Separate Ways
The Allman Brothers - Jessica - Brothers and Sisters
The Autumn Defense - This Will Fall Away - The Autumn Defense
The Bradbury Press - The Bouncing Ball - Hanscom
The Clarks - Better Off Without You - Still Live
The Dissipated 8 - Diamonds on the soles of her shoes - Eighps
The Fratellis - Costello Music - Creepin' up the Backstairs
The Freddy Jones Band - Mystic Buzz - Lucis
The New Pornographers - My Rights Vs. Yours - Challenges
The Pierces - Boring - Thirteen Tales of Love and Revenge
The Rugburns - Mama - Taking The World By Donkey
The Wallflowers - The Difference - Bringing Down the Horse
Train - All Anerican Girl - My Private Nation
Treble Charger - Brand New Low - Wide Awake Bored
Tristan Prettyman - Smoke - Twentythree
Zee Avi - Darling - Zee Avi
Zubia Brothers - Hotel Defeated - Voices on the Street


Much love to the boys at Creamy for whom without I would not be fans of some of my favorite bands.

Auditions galore!

So I went on two auditions simultaneously a few weeks ago, both for iTheater Collaborative in Phoenix. I was called back for Indivisible but not The Play About the Baby and ultimately not cast. Boo. But that's OK because the show goes up the same time that Nearly Naked Theater's Phaedra goes up and I'm gunning for a part in that.

I went on an audition for Unnecessary Farce with Desert Foothills Theater last night. That was a trek to get there. Way the hell up north, about an hour away. It's a great comedy and that's what I'm good at. I rocked the reading for both parts and the director called me this afternoon to tell me she thought I was wonderful and ask me to callbacks tomorrow night. Sweet. I have a feeling I'll get cast because I nailed it and because it's so damn far away. It's how I roll.

Then everyone can come and see me and laugh and I can hopefully get cast in some more shows in this damn town. More comedies, please!