And for my next role

[angelophile]

Just had the call from the director to let me know I've landed a part in the production of Arsenic and Old Lace in November. Looks like I'm earning a reputation at playing eccentrics after playing a murderous toyboy, a drunken rag and bone man and others, now I've been cast as Teddy, the lunatic brother of the main hero who he's Theodore Roosevelt and takes the stairs every times at a charge (in imitation of Roosevelt's famous charge up San Juan Hill).



Probably the most scene stealing part in the play. I always end up snaffling those. (In my defense I was told by a number of people I should go for that part before I'd even read the script - my memory of the movie was hazy.) Teddy gets some great lines and is the subject of some great lines:

Dr. Harper: Have you ever tried to persuade him that he wasn't Teddy Roosevelt?
Abby: Oh, no.
Martha: Oh, he's so happy being Teddy Roosevelt.
Abby: Oh... Do you remember, Martha, once, a long time ago, we thought if he'd be George Washington, it would be a change for him, and we suggested it.
Martha: And do you know what happened? He just stayed under his bed for days and wouldn't be anybody.

So, I get to spend the play in my own little world, happily digging the Panama Canal in the cellar, burying murder victims, thinking they'd succumbed to yellow fever and going on safari.

Not that I'm a ham or anything.

Comments

[tadiera.livejournal.com]

From what I recall from the movie, that's a great part to have. Congratulations!

[fenrishero.livejournal.com]

So are you the girl or the dinosaur? :)

[angelophile.livejournal.com]

The dinosaur. AWESOME part to have.