Congratulations to the Wolves, Boys Varsity Basketball state champions for 2017. Impressive work all season.
I had faith in the team. Headlining their story “Battle for Breslin Center for Cagers” in the March 22 edition before the last couple games would have been a bit awkward had they fallen short, but I knew they could do it.
Congratulations also to the organizers of their victory parade downtown on Wednesday, the only fairly nice day of the week.
It would have been a different experience in the cold rain Thursday or Friday.
There are many more successes for Clarkston High Schoolers and others around the community, of course.
The seniors are putting the finishing touches on their high school careers. Team RUSH looks to do well at their state tournament coming up.
I’m hoping for some success of my own on the stage. Rehearsals are in full swing for the next production of the Clarkston Village Players, of which I am a part. We’re working on “Self-Help,” a comedy by Norm Foster. I’m playing a character who is a reporter, but one who does things a bit differently.
He likes to use a micro tape recorder to narrate his activities. And he sees himself as a bit of a James Bond. I’m going with Patrick Warburton for inspiration on delivery.
But that’s the fun of the theater, taking on whole new personalities for the entertainment of others.
This is my third play and I like how each one is different, with different director styles and interactions with fellow actors, in addition to the new characters and lines.
My roles have been getting a bit bigger each time, but are still of the supporting type. That’s fine for now. The leads in this show, Steve and Sara Sanger, have lines on just about every page of the script. I still don’t know how they do it.
My current method of preparing for the show is to memorize by rote every line, and repeat it to myself a couple hundred times. That works OK when I have lines on about 15 pages, like on this one.
I don’t think that would work as well on a bigger role, with lines on 80 or so pages.