• Our
new website www.50todeath.com has launched! It features the new
comedic webisode series "50
To Death" plus lots of fun stuff to read (if you are into "reading")
and links to other cool sites, including this one!
• Just
did a whirlwind reading of "UBU a 'Patamusical" as
part of NYMF. It was a mind blowing experience and a blast playing
Ma Ubu who is a kind of combination of Mama Rose, Lady M, The
Old Lady from "Candide," Mae West and Mrs. Lovett.
• On the other end of the spectrum,
I've been working with Kevin Carter on his new musical "Summer
Schlock," playing the
sweet little character lady who is always second fiddle to
the Big Mama belter. Can't wait to see what happens with this one.
Kevin's music is always wonderful, as you may remember from "That's
Andy."
• Norm's and my Ameriprise
ad featuring us as a biker couple got renewed, so if you read "Fortune" or "Money" or "Forbes" you
may see us. However, if you are sticking your head in the
sand right now, I don't blame you. • This spring I went work with
the Pacific Northwest Ballet company in Seattle. They are planning
to produce "West Side Story
Suite" in 2009, and my job was to help the dancers
learn the music and prepare them for individual video auditions.
The company
was generous and delightful to work with and the dancers
were enormously talented. A good time was had by all, despite
some initial nerves.
• Just did some ADR work on "Second Eulogy," an NYU film
directed by Thompson Plyler that we shot last year, and I must
say that I think this film has the potential to be a big festival
hit and/or award winner. I am so proud to have been a part of it.
• I made my Midtown
International Theatre Festival debut in "The
Higher Education of Khalid Amir" as President Ferret (pronounced "feray")
the highly athletic and put-upon head of Denver State University.
Our playwright Monica Bauer won an award and the cast got very
close, living through "festival" circumstances.
• A
Production Still of Joan (above) as "Ms Pinkus" with "Fifi" in
their dramatic scene. Check
out the website of this exciting new film.
• An
NYU Grad Film Joan made 3 years ago is going to be shown on PBS
this Saturday night at approximately
10:45pm, right after "The Thomas Crown Affair" as well as Sunday
at 2:10am. It's called "Bluebeard's Wife" and was selected by online
voting! You too can get a film on Public Television this way. Check it out
at the Channel 13 website. • Joan
just played "Mimi" in the initial reading of "THE
BOYNTON BEACH CLUB", based on the hilarious Susan Seidelman
film. The cast featured an incredible array of Broadway veterans.
• "Porcelain
and Diamonds" (directed by Ryan Silber) should be premiering
in May. Look for Joan as a rich, drunken, wife and mother.
• "Bourgeois
Blues" (directed by Kevan Miller) is in post production. Look
for Joan as a rich, drug-addict widow and mother. (Hmmm . . . see
a pattern?)
• Joan
shot one day on "1-900-FAG-HAGS." Look for it
in festivals.
• Joan
recently finished a reading of DREAMWEAVERS, composed by Artie
Singer ("At the Hop").
Directed by Jamibeth Margolis.
• "A
Cold Snap", a film she recently completed, is premiering at
the LA Shorts Fest September
14, 2007 in Burbank, CA.
• Also finished the initial,
beautiful, hilarious reading of the Kleban Award Winning Musical
THE JERUSALEM SYNDROME by Felicia Needleman and Lawrence Holzman.
• Recorded the demo of MARTY
(starring John C. Reilly).
• FRITZ
AND FROYIM at Turtleshell Theatre (311 W. 43 St.) closed June 16,
2007. Check out the review at
Backstage.com.
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