From One Show to the Next

As mentioned before, I am involved in multiple productions with The Spotlight Playhouse. The Carol Burnett Show had some fairly small audiences, but they grew with each performance and the response was very positive. We got a lot of laughs every night, and that just fueled us more as the run went on. I had worked with many of the cast members in past shows, but I had just as much fun with the others because we all got along so well. It was a multi-generational cast, and we acted as goofy with each other as if we were all the same age. I only hope I have that same kind of fun in future shows as I had with the casts of Clue and Carol.

The insane busy schedule continues as we begin dress rehearsals/tech week for our one-act production of Charlotte's Web. I am super excited for this because I get to portray Templeton the rat along with Lurvy, the Zuckerman's farmhand, and John Arable, Fern's dad. I have really grown to like playing Templeton. He's sneaky, a little mysterious, and so much like Swiper the Fox (Dora the Explorer) that I used the latter as inspiration for my portrayal. I am really hoping to make people laugh with him. 

Thankfully, I do get to focus solely on Charlotte this week. This past week consisted on rehearsals for two other shows (Charlotte and Enchanted Murder Mystery) as well as our final two performances of Carol. You'd think with being in three different shows in a single month, I'd be paid. The truth is that I am not a professional actor...yet. I am sure I have talked about this before, but it's the reality for many artists. We do what we love to do, and that sometimes means not getting monetary compensation. 

Luckily, I have had a steady survival job, but it is one that I don't really want to do for another year. This is why I'm excited for my trip to New York after the dinner show. I plan on hitting up some auditions for theatre companies not necessarily in New York. Money-wise, I am definitely not ready to move to the city. In the long run, it may be wiser to get work with smaller professional companies that have ties with Equity so I can gradually earn points towards getting my Equity card. That's the plan for now, anyway. Let's just hope my work with Spotlight helped me enough this past year with confidence at these auditions...if I get seen, of course. 

For now, it's time to focus on being a farmer, another farmer, and a rat.