More good fun with old tunes tweaked to promote new technologies.  Look for the GTCA viral video, coming soon.  This stuff is a total blast!  I'm the pirate.

Studio 300 Theatre has posted some clips from the three recent shows.  The first part of the clip assemblage is from A Bowl of Rose Leaves and features a couple of quick shots of yours truly.  Whoo-hoo!

That's it for rehearsal.  Here we go.  We open this Friday and run through August 30th.  This is an intimate space with only 30 seats.  Get your tickets now at this link to brownpapertickets.com.

Working with Nick Scoggin, Gail Fenton, Taylor Meritt, and Vlad Sayenko has been unspeakably good.  Kudos and thanks to our director Shari Carlson, our costume and makeup designer Issei Liu, and to Tonya Foster and everybody at Imaginative Productions.

You can check out my original blog entry on the play for more info.  Just come see it.  I won't be sorry!

Update on 7/17:  We had our in-house preview last night.  We stumbled a little, saved each other well, had some technical difficulties, found some stuff to tighten up.  All what you want and expect in an in-house preview (or final dress rehearsal, basically).  Tonight is the public preview, Friday the real opening, and then a Saturday show before a glorious four days off to ready for the next wave.

The work has is good.  The relationships are there.  It's funny.  Can't wait to see how it takes off and what more there is to discover in its depths.

Still glowing from The Good Doctor, but am ready for the postpartum letdown.  Fortunately, I have a busy week including a shoot on the local indie feature, Moonlight Sonata, and an audition for another feature this Saturday.

Closing night of TGD  brought in 135 people, breaking all prior attendance records for the Calvary Theater Group.  What a rush.  During our extended curtain call where appreciation was given to our good technical folk, I took the opportunity to simply bathe my instrument in the presence of all these people, with nothing further to do.  It was sort of like being a fly on the wall in the middle of it all, a long, personal goodbye, moments onstage without expectation. 

Time to hit the stage.  I was recently cast in a production of Neil Simon's collection of Chekovian comedy sketches.  Traditionally, "The Good Doctor" is cast with five actors and actresses who each play multiple roles.  This production, produced by Barb Fatum and directed by Rick Homan at the Calvary Theater Group in San Francisco, will use about sixteen of us.  I've got three roles spread throughout the play.

The play opens April 18 for a short, five-show run, ending on April 26 (two sets of Friday/Saturday 8pm shows, and a matinee on Sunday the 20th at 2pm).  More information about tickets forthcoming.

It's a small house with 49 seats and a great chance to see Simon's homage to Chekov's lighter side.

I started taking a standup class at the San Francisco Comedy College.  Kurtis Matthews has built a pretty amazing institution, complete with a comedy club that's fourteen feet away from the classroom.  Really.  There's three open mics a week (Wednesday, Friday, Saturday) and, as a current student, you get stage time. 

Part of the training attitude here is, just get up there and feel comfortable with an audience.  Feel the silence.  Develop a relationship.  Go up without material.  Face the fear.  Here's a mic, stage, lights, audience, go!

What a rush.  I got on for maybe two minutes playing to a crowd of maybe ten, but I got some laughs and had some fun and took the first step toward having an act:  getting up on stage and trying it out.

More good times to come.