I am going to audition for A Christmas Story

[Zomby Woof]

http://www.theatrikos.com/Auditions.htm

The department store Santa part has me written all over it. :D

[pagerbear]

1. Was that....

"THE Christmas Story" or "A Christmas Story"? Big difference.

[Zomby Woof]

2. d'oh!

I fixed it. I was just excited I guess. :-)

[Susang]

3. What a fabulous idea!

Break a leg! ;-)

[Zomby Woof]

5. I acted back in college

Our university drama director preferred experimental theater, and I really enjoyed it. I was the one person she never had to scold to "project" more.

I had other ambitions at the time, but I have come full circle. This is a good community theater, and I think I have lived enough life in the past 16 years to give my lack of experience some compensation. ;-)

[Susang]

9. How cool

My degree's in Theatre Performance you know? If you ever make it to Chicago, I'll show you the infamous "Spring Break Party Massacre" short film I made for my friend John Kramer in 1998. It's worth it just for the nacho scene alone. :-)

[Zomby Woof]

11. I can't wait!

Back in 1988 (just after my last stint on stage), a friend of mine and I made a short Super 8 film called "Death Goes To McDonald's", in which I am a ukelele-playing Grim Reaper who kidnaps a young musician and an aspiring screenwriter, taking them through a McD's drive-thru in my wood-paneled Toyota Corolla station wagon, in which their eternal fate was to watch David Letterman and eat crappy fast food.

Some years later, I transferred it to video, and pasted 2 Camper Van Beethoven songs over it ("O Death" being very appropriate) and they fit PERFECTLY.

It was high art. ;-)

By the way, I think a quick weekend in Chicago is doable come spring, after my first raise.

[Susang]

17. I'll keep the entire season open

Of course, that's assuming we get a spring next year. We were denied one this year, we kind of went directly from winter to summer in one fell swoop. :-(

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. Woo hoo!

Best of luck!!

In your version, I think the Department Store Santa should have a giant cup of ultra-hot coffee and you pour it on children who sit there too long. You should also have a gigantic wooden phallus decorated as a nutcracker next to you.

[Zomby Woof]

6. LOL!

Well, I will take any role I can get, phallus or not.

My life needs a jump start, and this is a good opportunity.

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. I hope you get something!

Being in a play would be fun.

And I hope you get a nice, wondrous, fun jump start to your life!

[Zomby Woof]

8. It needs a QUANTUM kick in the ass!

I found most actors to be a pain in the ass during my college run, but what the hell... :-)

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Just get your chakras aligned, and you'll win!

Have someone in the astrology forum do a chart for you. They should be able to tell whether it's worth your time to audition or not.

[Zomby Woof]

12. snerk

Thay can take their medications and their preparations, and RAM THEM UP THEIR SNOUT. :P

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. You know, for a nominal service charge, you could reach Nirvana tonight

[elperromagico]

13. You'll shoot yer eye out, kid!

Merry Christmas! HO! HO! HO!

[Philostopher]

15. Whatever you do ...

DON'T PUT YOUR TONGUE ON THE FLAGPOLE.

I know, I know -- Flag doesn't get all that cold in the winter.

But still.

Just don't do it.

[Zomby Woof]

16. it gets cold enough!

Can get in the single digits or below zero at night in the winter... and not above 30 in the day, plus the snow...

I think we have great tongue-on-the-pole potential. ;-)

[pagerbear]

18. I want to be Ralphie!

Or the teacher. NOT the guy who gets his tongue stuck to the flagpole.

[Zomby Woof]

19. children will actually get the children's parts

Sorry Pager! :-(

[pagerbear]

20. Then I'll be the teacher1

"Children, you are going to write

a theme!

"

[Zomby Woof]

21. hahaha!

Then you can sing with the Mom... "You'll put your eye out! You'll put your eye out!"