A World Where Monday Is Sunday....

Aloha- It's Monday, @10PM and I had a nice day off. It's funny, but in the last year, I've gotten used to having no weekends and looking forward to Mondays. Well, today was the last time I get to come up for air until next Monday, as we have 9 shows this week(2 on Thurs., Sat.+Sun.). At least it's a show where I have very little down time and I'm constantly on the move from scene to scene.

I got to exercise some of my photographic abilities today, as I visited one of the palaces here in Seoul. It was the former seat of power for many hundreds of years, until the early 1900's. I am still looking into how to transfer my pictures to my ofoto account. Once I do, I'll let you all know how to view them. So far, I've taken just shy of 100 photos and need to dump them pretty soon. I've got a big memory card, but even it has its' limits.

Tomorrow we start official understudy rehearsals, of which I am involved. I am the understudy to both Schultz(John Little, here and in Worcester) and Ernst Ludwig(Dan Shevlin here, Russ Garrett at Foothills). I certainly hope I do not have to go on, but it is better to be safe than sorry. You never know when someone is going to get hold of some bad food or, God forbid, get clipped by one of these crazy motorcyclists on the sidewalks. I suppose it's part of the reason I got the gig is because they needed someone who(with heavy make-up, mind you) can pull off an older Jewish man. I am also the cover (go figure)for the Nazi as well. Range, baby, range.

I just contacted the theatre in Westchester, NY about filling in for Thomas Cannazaro(see a blog or two ago) when he leaves their production of "Cabaret", and also plan on being home for Worcester Foothills' Annual "A Christmas Carol". As my(and many of your) friend Wil D'Archangelo has expressed, it's nice to know you have a job to come back to where you can be home for the Holidays. If all goes as planned, that's the roadmap from here. After that, I suppose I go where the life takes me, Mondays off and everything else that come with this craziness called ShowBiz.

I sent home a copy of the souvenir program from the Korean production, and I got in a few photos- you'll have to see my folks at 64 Dunkirk to have a gander, or, just wait 'till I get back, as I'm sure I'll be bringing a few home. I hear the Japanese version is going to be different- maybe I'll be in that one even more(or maybe less....).

Well, away I go to try and sleep before rehearsal tomorrow afternoon, and the following night's show as well. Meanwhile, I'll be dreaming of Grilled Cheese Sanwiches, Fenway Park Hot Dogs, and round-eyed women.
An-nyong Hayseo!
Peace,
Steve