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Date Posted: 14:04:47 10/11/99 Mon
Author: Bill Wilson
Author Host/IP: host-216-77-217-93.fll.bellsouth.net / 216.77.217.93
Subject: / Break A Leg ! Bud !
In reply to: Hank Foley 's message, "Oct. 22, I'll be the "Caller" in David Mamet's "Four A.M."" on 08:30:30 10/08/99 Fri

> While anyone local IS welcome, the Theater Fellowship
> at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian CHurch (some name, huh?)
> where I'll be doing this uses their "Scene and Poetry
> Nights" as sort-of a fundraiser, as well, meaning that
> I can't lessen the $12 ticket charge, though it does
> include dinner.
>
> My wife Summer is directing as she did in the spring
> when we did Joe Pintauro's "Birds in Church" in the
> same venue. We rocked that one. Of course, it wasn't
> too hard to be the best of show because so much of the
> work is so bad, but, it was an easy gig to do and I'd
> wanted to do "Birds in Church" ever since my scene
> partner (New York actor Grant McKeown, who was also in
> my wedding) and I did the 6-page play in workshop with
> our mutual coach.
>
> This time 'round, the subject matter is one that has
> intrigued me for years. At many a street corner,
> especially around Rockefeller Center, if, as you step
> off the concrete of the sidewalk onto the tar of the
> road, you look down, you can see, pushed into the tar,
> a plaque or "tile" of sorts. It says, "An Arnold
> Toynbee idea in the movie '2001,' the resurrection of
> the dead on the planet Jupiter." The "tile" goes on
> from there to rant about how the reader (I assume, it
> says "you") "MUST MAKE AND GLUE TILES!!!!!" It is the
> weirdest thing. Odder yet, whenever the roads are
> resurfaced, they reappear. Whoever the perpetrator-nut
> or nut-group is, I think they're in contact with the
> road repair arm of city government and know the
> schedule (and probably the location of each and every
> "tile") of resurfacing for every road because these
> things reappear RIGHT after any road is redone. It's
> bizarre.
>
> Anyway, I think David Mamet noticed the same oddity
> because he wrote about it. I've been meaning to write
> him for years and ask if he ever did any investigation
> into it, or, probably rightly, just assumed it was
> some insaniac.
>
> The play, just 5-pages, has, therefore, been an
> interest of mine since I first read it and realized I
> knew something of the same mystery. My former
> techinical director in the theater I ran, Kaddy Feast
> (an excellent T.D. or stage manager, non-union, though
> she's left off, even with paying tech work for the
> time being, to return to acting - she almost always
> acted in any evening of one-acts that we did, while
> T.D'ing, too) is playing the irrascible late-night
> radio call-in show host who treats my outlandish
> statements as if they were perfectly normal, except to
> point out certain logical fallacies as is the
> announcer's job to do.
>
> I told Summer that this is the last play that I'm
> doing just to do build my resume, but, as I think
> about it, I really love this weird little piece.
>
> Kaddy has most of the lines. Not only is the part
> right for her, but also, during the day on Oct. 22,
> I'm taking a 6-hour test (the series 7 for my
> securities biz-related day job). I'll be in a review
> class for five of the ten nights before then and will
> really have to study in order to pass (about 70% fail,
> first time around), so I won't have time to rehearse
> like I should nor work on lines, so having fewer at
> least makes it a little easier on me.
>
> In the last few days, I've sent out a PILE of pix from
> work to Backstage submissions and haven't been caught
> once, but, this morning, as I stole postage off the
> metered machine, I punched in $77.77 instead of $0.77
> and hit "dispense" before I realized what I had done!
> Oh, no! I don't know if it is possible to cancel it
> once it's been dispensed! Probably not. I went ahead
> and did the balance of what I wanted to send out,
> scurried out to the mailbox before my official time to
> arrive at work, and emailed the company to ask if
> there's a remedy.
>
> I'd have asked my buddy, Kurt, here at work who
> normally sends out my mail clandestinely, slipping it
> in between the regular business mail of the office, if
> there's a fix for my blunder or I could've asked him
> in the first place to mail out the envelopes (also
> plucked from office inventory), but I didn't want to
> ask him for too much and I was concerned about how he
> would receive the news of the $77.77 mistake.
>
> So, far, no word back from the company that makes and
> services the postage metering machine.
>
> I wonder what I could send out to make use of one
> package at $77.77 in postage.....

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