Real Talk

Got a chance to meet and listen to JD and Katelynn from The Real World: Brooklyn speak at ULL this week for ULL’s GLBT week’s activities. I’m really happy I went because first I enjoyed it. Katelynn is realy funny and had the audience cracking up. Second it was just plain nice to be out of the house and return to my old stomping ground and run into a few people and get a few hugs. Third, it was important. I performed a solo piece my senior year in one of my theatre classes that took on the issue of kids committing suicide because of bullying regarding homosexuality. That was a year ago, and now the issue has continued and been brought to more of a national attention, so supporting this cause, hearing the stories, I think all of that can be simple step in the right direction. If more people understood, could put a face to it, maybe they wouldn’t be so quick to judge/hate. Oh the world we live in.

JD

Katelynn

Shots From Drood

I have no idea when these pictures were taken or who took them, but they look great. Drood was the last show I was in back in March, and it served as my first musical ever. The musical is based on The Mystery of Edwin Drood written by Charles Dickens. I played The Rev. Crisparkle. My cast battled between who I looked like Morgan Freeman or Danny Glover. Lol. I'll take either, they're both talented actors to be compared to.

Testing

Testing to see if the Microsoft program actually works. Advancement? Possible.

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.