posted February 08, 2010 10:43 AM            

The play is a melodrama, and they want me to play a Brit, a street Brit. I'm not sure yet if I'm to be a thug or not. I watched one of my favorite movies Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels last night for my inspiration. Guy Ritchie films are great for Brittish street thuggerie.

posted February 09, 2010 10:58 AM            

OMG!! My brain is imploding from reading the same thing over and over and over again..

Maybe I should go somewhere for some original thought? Hmmm....

posted February 09, 2010 12:06 PM            

So, turns out they didn't want me for the British role after all. Kind of a bummer. I'd practiced that accent all day including walking down the street pretending to be on my phone in the accent.

Nope, instead I will be the dashing military man that the female lead is romantically interested first (I presume before eventually being seduced by the British sailor). I've already thought of ways to make my part funnier. I wonder if they'll go for them.

posted February 09, 2010 01:49 PM            

Here's what it says about itself:

STORY OF THE PLAY

A tongue-in-cheek, uproarious melly-drammer with no redeeming social value whatsoever. Escapist entertainment with enough seedy jokes to give chestnuts a bad name. Loaded with laughs and a comic delight for both cast and audience. Montague Leech, the villain, and his hench-woman Carlota Castanet (the She-wolf of Monterey), make a tidy profit shanghaiing young lads to ships that sail from California to the China Seas. They operate from a disreputable tavern. Alas, the tavern belongs to a grizzled prospector. When he dies the tavern is willed to his only heir, Bertha Birthright, an orphan. She plans to make the place her "home." She is also a semi-skilled seamstress. Montague must get rid of the damsel. Enter Jack Swan, an English sailor, with a love for theater. He offers Bertha his "protection" and the hilarity goes into high gear! Soldiers, widows, society matrons, temperance crusaders, cowboys, mysterious figures, crusty sea captains collide to make the mirth even merrier. To complicate matters gold has been discovered at Sutter's Mill and the California gold rush is on. All is resolved in a final tableau that leaves our hero empty-handed as far as Bertha is concerned, but determined to bring "drammer" to the West. An added plus is a miniature musical revue that can be easily added as part of the plot. Simple staging, designed for easy rehearsals, no production problems. Can be expanded or shortened depending on desired length. For all groups.

Not a terribly specific story laid out there. I only got the script last night, so I'm still reading it. My character doesn't come in until Act II.

posted February 09, 2010 03:22 PM            

Check one:
Yes
No
Maybe
Text ya later

posted February 10, 2010 10:13 AM            

*wonders why she has never been approached to be a Mod nor never shall*

posted February 10, 2010 11:32 AM            

I don't know about the Mod question. It is drug promotion, but it's also supposed to be a place to talk about anything, so...

posted February 10, 2010 11:54 AM              

Hilarious.

Incidentally, I never -- well, maybe once, -- popped into a Godzala thread and started debating with them about the value of what they were doing. I don't open every Godzala thread and voice some heated opinion about how it needs to stop, etc. So, its a bit silly to keep making that comparison, while you guys are trying to thwart me a dozen times a day, and i merely shared my opinion on Godzala when the subject came up -- outside of the Godzala threads.

I'm sorry you find my radical sense of purpose so destructive, and you long for a return to the good ole' days of silly riffs on Clive Owen's codpiece.

posted February 10, 2010 12:42 PM            

Onward..

So today I was able to help a person save their house!! Sometimes it is really great to work here! I am glad to have the opportunity to help people.

How's your day, AG?

posted February 10, 2010 02:30 PM            

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So, its a bit silly to keep making that comparison, while you guys are trying to thwart me a dozen times a day, and i merely shared my opinion on Godzala when the subject came up -- outside of the Godzala threads.

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It's not a silly comparison to me. I'm still enjoying my "Told you so" moment while not rubbing it in people's faces too much. It was bad for the health of the site to have had that attack on Godzala. Now Godzala's gone, and you have unfettered access to the top of LLC2, but no one is interested. Whatever's exclusive or divisive gets attacked around here. Godzala was perceived that way, but was more inclusive than exclusive. What the divisive thing now?

Nobody's thwarting you yet, but if everyone you think is thwarting you were to stand aside, you'd find people would pop up right into those rolls again. Unpopular messages will continue to be unpopular. It wouldn't magically change.

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I'm sorry you find my radical sense of purpose so destructive, and you long for a return to the good ole' days of silly riffs on Clive Owen's codpiece.

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No. To state it correctly would be to say that I long for the good ol' days of community at LLC2. That's what's gone now. Clive Owen's codpiece is extraneous.

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Have you no faith in the common sense of your fellow humans who read this site? Do you not expect people to read the information presented and form their own opinions?

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I don't expect people to be curious about what they're already not curious about. You know how there are forums here that hardly see any action? It's because people aren't interested in them. I think it's the same deal.

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posted February 10, 2010 03:39 PM            

Not interested = no posts, threads are ignored and sink to the bottom. The End.

posted February 10, 2010 04:13 PM            

LLC didn't use to be Valus' usual posting ground. He moved there to get a bigger audience than he might find in UC.

posted February 10, 2010 04:53 PM            

*Enter libra~ I thought LLC 2 was for anything not ascribed to any specific forum, and even things ambiguous to said forums. Shouldn't that include Godzala as well as Valus'? It is the choice of the individual weather or not to open and read/respond to them.