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Need rehearsal space for 2 dates, July 10th and/or July 24th.

Hiya! We've decided to add 2 rehearsals to our schedule and need space for either or both of the above dates.
The show is "Kelly McCubbin's Golden Age of Radio" and we only need a room 20" X 20"ish from 6:30 to 9:30 those nights.
If you can help, please let me know.

kelly@ukeapocalypse.com
www.ukeapocalypse.com

Vintage Microphones - Got Any?

I'm looking for vintage microphones to use as props on a stage set. They need not work. I can definitely put some guarantee money down towards their safe return.
Leads?
Anyone?

I believe it's time for me to flyyyyyy!

Tribe looks like it's dying a rapidly accellerating death. Anyone got someplace new to waste our days at?

Casting - Live Golden Age Radio Drama

Casting Call

Kelly McCubbin and Penny Dreadful Theatricals are holding auditions for The Ukeapocalypse Radio Hour, a recreation of a 40’s-era radio show, performed in front of a theater audience. The first act is a fully-staged, behind-the-scenes comedy with music (in the tempo of “The Jack Benny Show”) about a has-been director and his hapless cast trying to stage a science fiction radio show. The second act is the radio show itself, performed by the actors in the style of a live broadcast. No pay. Ongoing company potential, but not required or guaranteed.

Auditions
May 31st and June 1st at Exit Theatre in San Francisco.
Send acting resume or summary breakdown of experience to Kelly for audition appointment.
Contact email: [Kelly [at] ukeapocalypse.com].

Performance Dates
August 1, 2 (plus matinee), 8, 9 (plus matinee)
Rehearsal Dates
3-4 rehearsals weekly, beginning mid-June
Performance Venue
Exit Theatre, San Francisco

Roles
M(35 – 50) - Toby/Captain – Insane method actor/Petty, greedy starship captain
F(30-45) - Roz/Erno – Extraordinarily efficient stage manager/Extraordinarily efficient starship first mate
M - Omar/Stina – Actors’ Equity Delivery Man/Field officer of the most proper variety
F(21-30) - Lily/Svvor Captain – Ingénue/Alien Captain infuriated by humans
M(25-40) - Miles/Jeeters – Sleazy agent/Expendable starship field officer
M(25-40) - Gary/Johansson – Other sleazy agent/Expendable starship field officer
M(30-45) - Simon/Smyzel – Acerbic, drunken studio band leader/Starship number cruncher
M(35-50) - Murray – Beleaguered show announcer
F(45-50) - Mazie – Aging diva no longer quite attached to reality
M(Played as young) - The Kid - 40s newsboy, out of time.

Casting - Live Golden Age Science Fiction Radio Drama.

Casting Call

Kelly McCubbin and Penny Dreadful Theatricals are holding auditions for The Ukeapocalypse Radio Hour, a recreation of a 40’s-era radio show, performed in front of a theater audience. The first act is a fully-staged, behind-the-scenes comedy with music (in the tempo of “The Jack Benny Show”) about a has-been director and his hapless cast trying to stage a science fiction radio show. The second act is the radio show itself, performed by the actors in the style of a live broadcast. No pay. Ongoing company potential, but not required or guaranteed.

Auditions
May 31st and June 1st at Exit Theatre in San Francisco.
Send acting resume or summary breakdown of experience to Kelly for audition appointment.
Contact email: [Kelly [at] ukeapocalypse.com].

Performance Dates
August 1, 2 (plus matinee), 8, 9 (plus matinee)
Rehearsal Dates
3-4 rehearsals weekly, beginning mid-June
Performance Venue
Exit Theatre, San Francisco

Roles
M(35 – 50) - Toby/Captain – Insane method actor/Petty, greedy starship captain
F(30-45) - Roz/Erno – Extraordinarily efficient stage manager/Extraordinarily efficient starship first mate
M - Omar/Stina – Actors’ Equity Delivery Man/Field officer of the most proper variety
F(21-30) - Lily/Svvor Captain – Ingénue/Alien Captain infuriated by humans
M(25-40) - Miles/Jeeters – Sleazy agent/Expendable starship field officer
M(25-40) - Gary/Johansson – Other sleazy agent/Expendable starship field officer
M(30-45) - Simon/Smyzel – Acerbic, drunken studio band leader/Starship number cruncher
M(35-50) - Murray – Beleaguered show announcer
F(45-50) - Mazie – Aging diva no longer quite attached to reality
M(Played as young) - The Kid - 40s newsboy, out of time.

Audition Space for Radio Show!!!

Ok, we're actually doing this. The radio show piece is booked for the first 2 weekends in August at the Exit in San Francisco. We want to work with lots of people we know and love, but also find some new faces, too. So we want to hold some auditions towards the end of this month.
What we need, primarily, is a space to actually hold them in. A nice neutral room with a card table that's not in someone's house (because that's a little creepy) and if that space can also be extended to being used for rehearsals for a while, even better!
If anyone at all has any leads on something like this, meeting room, church cafeteria, actual theater, let me know. Your help is greatly appreciated.
And PLEASE, if you want to be involved in any way (actor, technician, guy who brings me beer), don't hesitate to contact me. We are revving up!

Here's the skinny for the show... It is a live theatrical performance of an Old Time radio show. Act 1 is comedy and music and centers around putting the show on. Act 2 is the drama, a sort of Douglas Adams-ian piece about Planetary colonization, artificial intelligence and 50 ft. tall panda bears.
Let's get goin'!

Girls Rock!

So, a few of you may know that my friend Arne has spent the last 3 years putting together a documentary about the Girls Rock Camp in Oregon. For those that aren’t familiar with it, Girls Rock Camp is a place where parents can send their young girls over the summer to learn how to play thrashing rock and roll! It is meant as a place to help young teens really gain confidence and a sense of identity outside of the ridiculous strictures of school peer pressure and popularity. It allows the freak to soar and the debutante to let her hair down.
As Arne said to me recently, one of the mother’s interviewed, when asked why she sent her daughter every year, replied, “Because, after camp, I get my real daughter back for a while.”
I think this is an important film and want to support it as much as I can. And what I can do is this…
The film opens the weekend of March 7th in a number of markets. San Francisco AND Berkeley are included. This opening weekend is crucial to what will be the long term future of the film as distributors decide by the limited release numbers how to promote it from that point on. Please help me make those numbers impressive.
If you can, attend a showing of “Girls Rock” on the first weekend. It will be at the Embarcadero Cinemas in S.F. and the Shattuck in Berkeley. I am going to attend the late showing at the Embarcadero on Friday, March 7th. Arne and Shane (the directors) will be there to do Q and A after the film during all showings at that theater that day. Please feel free to join me. I’ll cart as many people as I can fit into my Honda!

www.girlsrockmovie.com/

How To Form a Western Swing Band...

I want to form a Western Swing Band, kinda Tex Williams/Spade Cooley-esque.
Anyone have any tips on, you know, how to do that?
Tell me it's easy, wouldja?