Last Aloha's

It's Saturday morning. We've got two final performances of ALOHA left. Thursday's show opened to a medium sized house. The interesting thing about Thursday's audience was that there was some sort of prison inmate group there to see the play. I didnt know anything about it beforehand and I remember thinking to myself "Wow, there are some really TOUGH looking guys out here tonight." They definitely didnt look like your typical theater-going folk. Josh, who plays the character of MYRNA in the show (A hilarious role, a sort of anchor or den mother to the other characters, and also a man dressed as a woman), got totally spooked in his first scene and forgot his lines. He recovered nicely. He wanted to take the back door out of the theater that night. The inmates seemed a little detached from the story except for the part where Vivian is doing bong hits. They seemed to like that. They perked up when the girls came out for act two in bikinis. They REALLY liked that.

Friday night's show was, I'd say, our second best audience, still not quite as good as our first Sunday night crowd, but the house was full, as was the laughter. Friday night's audience not only gave a lot back to the actors in terms of energy, but many hung around after the show to meet the cast and show their appreciattion. I had several people come up to me after the show and tell me they enjoyed my work, which was nice.

Tonight is our second to last event, as well as the cast party. I think we're getting a keg and we're just going hang out in the theater space and get drunk. Courtney simply asked that we be sure to return Sunday for the final show. Sounds easy enough.

The past week has been another busy one, with the crazy, insane heat we had in New York, my ZICO colleagues and myself decided to hit the streets and give out tons of samples of ZICO to the hot and thirsty people of Manhattan. Its a great way to improve brand awareness and make a good first impression. It also kept me very busy. I had several auditions come up this week, so I had to scramble to free up my time to get there. I auditioned this week for an INTEL industrial, a CANON commercial, a LEISURE CHANNEL promo and a few others.

At the LEISURE CHANNEL audition, when I walked in (My friend Bettina was running the casting), the director recognized me and said "I know this guy, this guy is really good. How are you James?" I kind of squinted at him to see who he and I couldnt quite figure it out. It turns out he directed me on a SPIKE TV promo a few years ago. It was nice to be remembered and nice to briefly chat with the man. It would have been NICER if I had booked the damn thing.

As for right now, right at this moment, I am about to go meet with my friend Jeff Williams, whose editing my short film BUZZING THE BUZZER, which we shot last month. He works as an assistant editor at Ogilvey & Mather and he's arranged for us to be able to edit the project in their studio, which is awesome. He tells me he's got a rough cut for me to look at. So we'll see how that looks, discuss the options, brainstorm a bit, order in for lunch and see where that leaves us. Then I've got to come home, feed Kane, take a shower, walk Kane and head out to Jersey City for the show.

I dont really have the time or focus to get into my personal life right now, which, by the way, is in shambles. Maybe some other time, but i can't promise anything, most of this stuiff is probably better left unsaid..or un-BLOGGED.