Chance = Change

.....actually, the above blog title is a bit of an exaggeration (Evalyn, do YOU ever exaggerate? no!)...I am not feeling nearly as bad as that long exclamation may indicate....I am not the least bit surprised that LANIE KAZAN finally booked the role in the Adam Sandler movie I have been on hold for for three , no FOUR MONTHS!!! I envisioned LANIE KAZAN in the role from the very day I first read the script, and it is a role she has already played dozens of times, in various incarnations in lots of other movies and i figured they would go with the known, and so they did...and that is fine with me...it was an honor to even be considered for this long, and according to my agent, it was (as they say) "down to the wire" between the estimable Lanie and the much less estimable me.....so..bless them all....if I were as established and known in the business as LK is, I would want to be loyally honored with a role that seemed written for me too...so I say: take it and enjoy! I have had fun even imagining what it would be like to be in a real movie...and maybe one day i will be. But if I live my entire life without being in a feature film, it still will have been a good and full life...I have so little to complain of...

Today was the first day of work on I MARRIED WYATT EARP, the reading I am doing of a truly nice new musical. Such terrific people involved: my dear old pal Tovah Feldshuh, Cass Morgan (who I so love) and Anne Crumb, a marvelous and gifted spirit...Marla Schaffel (who I've not worked with since Les Mis so many years ago) and the fine Henry Aaronson at the piano...so good to see all the writers again...such gifted people....lots of new young ones...at least new to me, and this is good, because I have been out of touch with the scene full of terrific new talent and this gives me a chance to catch up a bit....amazing singers, all. Should be fun. And my two parts are so different: Pauline , who runs the G and S Troupe that Josie joins in the Old West (Pauline is British) and then Josie's mother, who is German...so a nice exercise in character...as I said: fun...and a short commitment: the readings are being done in one week....for "the industry" mainly...I wish the project nothing but the best because the people who wrote it are the finest people.....wonderful spirits all. Kind and generous people.

I am impressed with Joe Barros, a young man with great energy who runs the NYTheatreBarn, producer of this reading....he and I will hopefully have tea and talk soon....I like him. And maybe I can be of some use to him. He has already offered to work with me on some project for my 46-10 Group....he is generous of spirit....(I keep mentioning spirit...it's all this meditation I am currently doing...something along the lines of something I recently read: things spiritual have to do with the here and now....so true).

Well, I had better get off and running to my 46-10'ers....I changed our session to tonight, since I rehearsed today during our regular time. So....off to my dear old folks and SPOON RIVER....
more soon.....

Again: CONGRATS LAINIE!