All That Jaws

A few hours after the web site debacle/vision on Tuesday, I booked a lead role workshopping a brand new musical called All That Jaws that combines my two favorite genres: horror and musical! The production is campy local midnight show fodder, the script is hilarious, the music is brilliant and it's a role I was born to play.

The story of All That Jaws portrays The Shark, yours truly, as desperate for acceptance, misunderstood and wanting to make friends. Of course, his only way of reaching out is with his mouth and therefore everytime he tries to make a new friend, he ends up killing them. As a concept, the character was written as a cross between Joel Grey as The Emcee in Cabaret and Tim Curry as Frank 'N Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

The first performance will be a staged reading with full band at The Out of Bounds West Comedy Festival in Santa Monica, California at the stroke of midnight on Friday, May 25th. (To be clear, that's 11:59 pm on Friday, not Saturday.) There is a possibility of a Saturday midnight performance too if Friday sells out.

They are hoping to open the full show itself sometime this June. I'll keep you posted.

This means I have two weeks to learn an entire musical, script and score. Back to back rehearsals starting Tuesday. I feel like Liza going into Chicago. I work so much better under pressure and long hours though (extremist to the end!) and I'm really greatful to be given the opportunity to finally do a musical in Los Angeles. It needed to be done to get the ball rolling in that direction for me right now because to be honest, until now I have been petrified of auditioning for musical theater!

Tickets are $10.00 and available here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/15537 -- Choose the Saturday, May 26th at 12:00 am option for our show.

I'm telling you guys about this before any newsletters or press releases, etc. The people who read my "Diary" have my heart, really. Some of you have been follwing the story of my life since 2001 and everyone's support, from new readership to old, especially your comments and emails, really have been what keeps me going.