An Update?

Wow...I haven't updated in over a month. I really suck at this!! Is anyone still out there? I have got to get my act together....

Anyway, I am finally a theatre school graduate! Which means that I am free...to go to school again!! MUSICAL THEATRE SCHOOL!!!! Go me!
After a ridiculously gruelling audition, in which I not only got 0% on my music theory test, a 50% on my ear test but also improv'd during my dance audition, I was one of the people that got a call-back, or as Sheridan calls it an "RDA" (Denise and I think RDA stands for "Retarded Dancer Alert" because of how horrible my dance audition was - I actually "rodeoed" and humped the air). Long story short, it must be a slow year because I GOT IN!
April also saw Brian's very first Broadway audition. This was an interesting process. After standing in line for five hours in the freezing cold (gotta love NY in April), I got to sing for about twenty seconds. It went well though, they said I had the look and sounded good, so I suppose that's alright. I haven't heard from them though...so...I couldn't have sounded THAT good.
Oh, and I'm also in a show! It's called "Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead" and it starts showing May 29th(?), downtown! The show is about the lives of the Peanuts characters as messed-up high school students. They've changed all the names to protect the innocent (or to protect the author from being sued by Charles Schulz). It's like "American Pie" meets Catcher in the Rye starring Charlie Brown (or "CB" in our case). I play "Matt" who used to be called "Pin-Pen." I have never had to play a more challenging role in my life. I'm used to playing the awkward or stupid character (or Hamlet and MacBeth, for some reason) but this time around, I'm a homophobic jock who swears a lot and mistreats girls. It is really hard to get out of my body (I actually jazz-handed at one point). I'm doing some "dick-training" with some of the cast and crew (meaning, training to be a dick, not...well...you know). Anyway, it should be interesting. I'll be uploading a vid of some clips from rehearsal to give you a taste. Here are some pictures of rehearsals (it was photo day, we don't usually dress like this).

Look how tough I am.

Choreography I'm unfamiliar with.

The cast.

PS. Go out right now and buy Marc Acito's new novel "Attack of the Theater People." It's the sequel to one of my favourite books, "How I Paid for College" and it's amazing! GO NOW!