Attended the first readthrough of the first play I’ve gotten involved with in a while (in my occasional hobby of actor in the Long Island theater community.) I’ll be appearing in a play called “Checking Out” at the Broadhollw Center Stage at Malloy College in Nassau County the last two weeks of June. The play revolves around an elderly Jewish man who calmly decides that he’s done with his life and informs his grown children that he’s planning to take a bottle of sleeping pills. They show up en masse to talk him out of it. I was asked to play the part of his eldest son Ted, the middle-aged utterly neurotic Jewish psychiatrist. Because of course, when you’re in Long Island and you need an utterly neurotic middle-aged Jew, you think of me. Who wouldn’t?
It’s a challenge because it’s the most dramatic role I’ve ever undertaken, and at one point I have a monologue that goes on for an entire page in which my character completely melts down, much to the horror of his younger brother. And the guy who plays my father–an established LI actor with the unlikely name of Harvard Mann–is absolutely terrific. I’m also excited to be working with the director, Jack Howell, who directed me as Sancho in “Man of La Mancha.”
Oh, on another topic–in response to popular demand, I will be doing a BID column detailing which scenes I added into the novelization of “Spider-Man” that were purely my invention, as opposed to scenes that were in the script but cut. Also, for those who want to read the script, the Previews Exclusive edition of “Behind the Mask of Spider-Man: The Secrets of the Movie” has the entire shooting script printed in the back. And no, I don’t get a percentage; this is a self-interest-free plug.
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