The Christmas Dinner Audio Preview (Low Quality)

To anyone reading, it has been a long time. I went away for the summer, but I'm back and posting something that's cool for me to post. I wish the audio was better, but I wanted to put it up anyway.

The Birthday Dinner Photo Gallery

If you look on the side bar you can check out the photos for The Birthday Dinner.

The Christmas Dinner: A Play By Brian Egland Reading

So we had the reading of The Christmas Dinner Sunday, May 1, 2010, and I have to say..I was pleased and surprised about how great everything went. I usually don't know if I really ike my script until I get to hear my words. I really liked it. I think it is more powerful than The Birthday Dinner which is a huge statement for me to make. For the reading we were fully casted with 10 actors for the 10 charcaters in the play. Everyone from The Birthday Dinner returned with the exception of Hunter Burke (Miles), he just couldn't make it. That is one busy man. I'll point out the new cast members in some of the pics I will post below.

Sheryl Ned (Pearl Pete) Jasmine Chapman ( Jeryline Pete)

Lance Guidry (Miles Zeeman) Andrew John ( Mason Lite)

My Good Friends Meghan Raca and Trina Auzenne with Kenny Gabriel (Guy Channing)

The Mother Daughter Duo

Jasmine Chapman (Jeryline Pete) & Amandah Baker (Emma Osmond)

Emma and her Boo!

Andrew John (Mason Lite) & Amandah Baker (Emma Osmond)

Allison Schilhab (Ava Stone) & Jeremy Drewery (Kaden "KC" Channing)

The Pete Women

Emma, Jeryline, Judith, & Pearl

Amandah Baker, Jasmine Chapman, Kristina Marshall, & Sheryl Ned

The Men of the Family

KC, Guy, & Boris

Jeremy Drewery, Kenny Gabriel, & Jamel Small

Part of

The Christmas Dinner Reading Cast

Jeremy Drewery, Kenny Gabriel, Amandah Baker, Jasmine Chapman, Me, Kristina Marshall, Jamel Small

And I Finally Got To See

I finally got a chance to see David E. Talbert's Love In The Nick of Tyme courtsey of BET. Sundays BET has been geting it right. A few months ago they played Polly, and though I missed it, I appreciated them putting backk on the air for new viewers to see it's brillance. Now I was debating on buying Mr. Talbert's new DVD cause well, I'm broke and I can't afford to buy some random DVD that I don't know if it's good or not. Especially when I don't even own some of my favorite films on DVD. But the catch is, I do like Mr. Talbert's work and I really wanted to see it. And the cast line up seemed really interesting. Morris Chestnut, Avant, Treynce from American Idol and Terry Dexter. Luckily enough BET heard my silent cry and BET put it on the air, I of course didn't know about it, but my mom did and recorded it. It was good. Mr. Talbert's work is very professional and refined, though I don't think this was his best play....I really enjoyed it. And I was able to enjoy more, because it didn't jeapordize any of my funds. The one thing in the play.....that was like oh lord...though it's petty of me....he had a character named Jeryline.

Being that my lead character's name is Jeryline....it was like oh man...people going to think I stole that from him....but really I was mor ebotheres by the fact that the name, imo, didn't really fit the character. The name's two powerful for such a samll charcter. But that's just how I see it.

In other news BET is also airing the movie that I rented and posted about, Truth Hall. I debated spending the $3.00 to rent this movie off of Amazon and finally talked myself into and was highly upset that I did. Now.....oh man....hindsight....I should have waited. BET would have played it all along and I would of found out I didn't like it...for free.

But either or....I really do appreciate BET exposing those Black Films and Black Artists...whether the work is great or still aspiring. I wonder what I have to do to get The Birthday Dinner on the Sunday lineup.

I Heart The Color Purple

Sometimes life work out right. Got a call from Ms. Kristina Marshall who played Judith in The Birthday Dinner. She's doing fine btw. Well, long story short, she stumbled upon two tickets to The Color Purple and was even having trouble giving the extra ticket away...that is until she called me. I had no idea that the tour was coming around here, which I really need to get on cause I don't want to miss anything else.

Needless to go into detail....the play was amazing. It was just amazing. I feel very honored to see a great show like this as I don't have the means to go to New York to catch all of the Broadway show's I would love to see. Though the show was great, I did see the touring production. The cast did amazingly...but I would love to see Fantasaia as Ceily. Oh my. I would love to see that. But I'm happy I at least saw something and what I did see was amazing.

Spotlight: Actors Who Killed It

Luis Guzman

You most deffinetly recognize this face when you see it. This actor, Mr. Guzman, has been in about every Latin/Hispanic (sorry I'm not sure what term is politically correct) movie/show that has been out, except for Ugly Betty for some strange reason. At least I didn't see him on it. Well he is currently on a show on HBO called How To Make It In America which stars homeboy who played Jake on One Tree Hill, my favorite rapper, Kid Cudi, and one of my favorite rising actors, Victor Rasuk. Well Mr. Guzman is killing it on this show. All of those years of taking part in all of those movies are really showing effect in some great performances by this man. Could he be the next Monique?

Josh Zuckerman

Do you watch Desperate Housewives? You might not recognize him in this picture, but this is Eddie. The homeboy who is killing on the woman and the actor who is just killing it. His performance on this past Sunday's episode hit me like a tidal wave. I was blown away, but the depth of it...but Desperate Housewives imo does provide good quality moments very often. You might also remember this Josh from his role on Klye XY. He was Lori's professor boyfriend who appeared to be double dipping between good and evil, but abc fmaily canceled the show before everything are anything was really cleared. Anyway, proud to see Mr. Josh move on and to something that made him shine like the one I am mentioning.




Wendie Malick
This lady played the principal in the squeal to Alvin and the Chipmunks and killed it. I know, the Alvi and the Chipmunks movie....I like them...my brother who didn't want to watch it...liked it...and this women killed it. I checked out her IMDB and she's been acting for years. I even recognized her once I saw her filmography. I guess some actor's never get into that super bright spotlight, but Wendie: you are killing it. Keep doing it. BTW Theodore is so great. I heart him.

And I Finally Got To See

I finally worked up the nerve and spent the money buying the beloved Polly. The Disney African American TV Musical Movie Directed By Debbie Allen. Polly is an adaption of Pollyanna. Basically if Pollyanna and her people were black...and the result is it would be good. It was good. It even had a sequel, in which I brought too. The sequel deffinetly pale in comparison to the first, but man is it nice to see a world you love extend and to see those characters and bonds alive once more...even if it's not as great. At least I like things like that.

Well though the sequel fell off a bit, what I really enjoyed most was seeing the realtionship between Polly and Jimmy Bean. I guess I'm a sucker for a good love story or what seems to be a good love story.

Now this is Polly and Jimmy Bean then.

And this is Polly and Jimmy Bean now.

I would love to see a third film. These kids have grown up to be beautiful people and that is of course the makings of a great TV romance. All jokes aside it would be great to see Polly and Jimmy bean togather again as adults in a whole new action adventure story. Come on Debbie Allen...make this happen for me. lol.