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Jet · 01-28-2010, 05:51 PM

I wanted to be an actor and was determined to go to New York
after high school. I became a radio announcer, a copywriter and a designer; so there's about 38 years in
communications never making it to New York. I did have a brief stint acting in college.

I loved acting and I have thought about auditioning for a theater troupe, or maybe a one-act, maybe three.
But I have been gone for so long from the theater, I have a lot of catching up to do.

I left off acting in "theater of the absurd" or "black comedies" such as Ionesco, Albee and Ibsen. I thought they were all crazy.
Being traditional and preferring timeless scripts (as you might expect being an ol' jet-type), I prefer pillars like O'Neill and
Williams, Inge etc. in theater, and Billy Wilder and Paddy Chayefsky as sort of my benchmark favorites in da movies.
I totally love the 1920s and 1930s writers who were in that tight "New York circle" of dramatists and writers such as Lillian Hellman, Clifford Odets,
and Dorothy Parker. I think Dashiell Hammett and Moss Hart may have been in there, but don't quote me.
It would have been ultra to do a Lillian Hellman play like"These Three" (play and film) later re-shot by William Wyler and retitled
"The Childrens Hour" about a scandal involving school teachers accusing them of being lesbians.

Thanks for this thread. It's going to bring me up to date on theater, and air old my old musty memories,
which I haven't taken the time to do.

01-28-2010, 05:51 PM	#52
Jet Timed Out - TOS Drama How Do You Identify?: .. Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: .. Posts: 3,471 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 292 Thanked 2,647 Times in 1,293 Posts Rep Power: 0	I wanted to be an actor and was determined to go to New York after high school. I became a radio announcer, a copywriter and a designer; so there's about 38 years in communications never making it to New York. I did have a brief stint acting in college. I loved acting and I have thought about auditioning for a theater troupe, or maybe a one-act, maybe three. But I have been gone for so long from the theater, I have a lot of catching up to do. I left off acting in "theater of the absurd" or "black comedies" such as Ionesco, Albee and Ibsen. I thought they were all crazy. Being traditional and preferring timeless scripts (as you might expect being an ol' jet-type), I prefer pillars like O'Neill and Williams, Inge etc. in theater, and Billy Wilder and Paddy Chayefsky as sort of my benchmark favorites in da movies. I totally love the 1920s and 1930s writers who were in that tight "New York circle" of dramatists and writers such as Lillian Hellman, Clifford Odets, and Dorothy Parker. I think Dashiell Hammett and Moss Hart may have been in there, but don't quote me. It would have been ultra to do a Lillian Hellman play like"These Three" (play and film) later re-shot by William Wyler and retitled "The Childrens Hour" about a scandal involving school teachers accusing them of being lesbians. Thanks for this thread. It's going to bring me up to date on theater, and air old my old musty memories, which I haven't taken the time to do.