Before my gig with the Second City Touring Company starts up I’ve another show to direct—this one an anti-bullying touring show for schools. It’s my first stab at melodrama, and if you or someone you know wants to audition you can read our casting call here or here.
For everyone else, we’ll be having free previews towards the end of the month. I’ll see you there, and you’d better bring your lunch money, squirt!
A no-brainer or career suicide? Whatever the case may be, I’ve just turned down the chance to spend four months on board this cruise ship performing with The Second City.
I’d be away from November to March of next year, and would miss Christmas with my family and friends. But I’d only have to perform two shows a week, and would have full access to the ship’s many amenities the rest of the time.
The long contract certainly gave me pause, but the deciding factor turned out to be the sleeping arrangements—sharing a tiny cabin with a roommate that I don’t necessarily know is something that this crotchety old SC alum just wasn’t prepared to do. I had no problem sleeping six to a tent in Bosnia, but on a boat-load of American tourists I would absolutely need some kind of guaranteed personal space.
I will, however, get a small taste of the Caribbean when I accompany Ray Deonandan to T&T for his appearance at CARIFESTA at the end of September. We’ll be sharing a room, but for a couple of days I think I can manage…
Hmmm… So am I gonna be the mommy or daddy?
You can be the daddy. Now get over here and suck your mama’s c*ck.
Hey-o! We’ll be right back, folks…
AC:
When I worked in the restaurant business way back, a few of my fellow grunts took cruiseboat gigs. I don’t know of any who went back a second time after working 6-7 days a week, from breakfast to the end of dinner, with a bunk somewhere near the keel (usually next to loud machinery of some sort). The SC gig sounds a lot better, but you’d still end up in that bunk….
Ed
Actually the SC crew gets either officer’s quarters or the smallest class of passenger cabin—no window, but a closed circuit cam of the bow on TV!
I’d still have to share, though, plus all those hardworking crew members you mention would hate me the moment I stepped on board…
(Drowsy circa 1999 at Theatre Passe Muraille…)
Kudos to all the folks involved at one point or another with what will forevermore be known as the Tony Award-Winning Broadway hit The Drowsy Chaperone.
I myself was a bit surprised that they didn’t win the hardware for Best Musical. I’m guessing that the powers-that-be switched the winning envelope after Don McKellar made that crack about thanking “The American musical comedy… Which has given us so much to make fun of.”
But I’m a conspiracist that way…
It’s too bad they didn’t win the last one, conspiracy or not. I’m just glad I got to see one of the numbers on TV since I can’t make the trek to NY to see the whole thing 
Please forgive the dearth of posts this week. I’m working on three simultaneous projects at the moment—assembling another guerilla comedy video for iLaugh, finalizing all those nagging little details for this Saturday’s Conservatory Grad Show, and still fiddling with Linux in my spare moments!
About the show, click right here and be rewarded with your very own souvenir poster, suitable for mass emailing! It also has all the deets about the time and place of the big show.
… See you Saturday!
Pictured above is six-tenths of my current Conservatory Class, who as you know have their grad show on Saturday, May 27th on The Second City Mainstage.Tonight they will experience a Second City rite of passage as their director (me) produces the running order of scenes for that show.
In an instant, all the work they’ve been doing since last September gets crystallized into two 45-minute acts. There is usually much discussion that follows, along with complaining, gossip and (hopefully) sighs of relief. But it’s still a magical moment, because for the first time we will have a concrete product… On paper, at least!
Ray Deonandan are discussing. 
Be sure to pack your thong, big boy!