Current Work

"The mill's closed and there's no work. I have no choice but to sell you all for scientific experimentations ..." --The Meaning of Life

Unfortunately, I didn't get the part of Laura in "The Glass Menagerie." This production was looking for 30-somethings rather than 20-somethings, and even I couldn't look that old. However, I did get the part of Mary Magdalene in the "Jesus Christ Superstar" brown bag, as well as the responsibility of a sort of "assistant music director." Auditions for "Twelve Angry Jurors" are next month, but it's been hinted that I will have a part no matter what. I'm also preparing for auditions for the New Year's Even variety show, which I've also been told I'm a shoe-in for. (I don't necessarily trust these statements, but it helps me from being too nervous.)

My senior thesis project has been approved, and I'm working on editing my topic and beginning my preliminary research. Over the school year I will be researching the musicals that have made the greatest impact on Broadway today; I will probably be setting a limit, such as picking the ten most influential. At the end of the year I will be recording a CD of one song from each show that reflects the changes it made. So far, I know that it will probably include "Bye Bye Birdie," "Oklahoma!" and "A Chorus Line."

I am still working on my screenplay ... it is coming slowly but surely, as I have to balance out what I work on each day. I have one sample scene in Microsoft Word format available for reading; this is a random scene from about 20-30 minutes into the screenplay. The untitled script is a speculative romantic fiction about Julius Marx and his love for a New York socialite named Lydia who hates him, but is in love with his alter ego, Groucho. It was inspired by a photo from The Marx Brothers Scrapbook, which credited the girl Julius is kissing as "an unidentified woman" ... odd, that, since he wrote the book himself.