A Night in Amnesia

Well, I spent yesterday prepping my first character for last night's auditions for the next run of the improv show, Scandal.

My second character gets up next week. As well as my first. Yes, that's right, I have to do my guy again.

Last night, I introduced Nat Templeton, a be-bop loving, jazz playing loser. I had a beard on my chin, and sharp glasses, and a cig, and a pork pie with a black suit. I was bad, and that is good.

My only problem was they thought he was too high energy and that his voice was too much like the last character I played. I disagree with the voice. After all, when I was done, one of my cast mates said it sounded like I was doing Bill Cosby with a sore throat. I showed him my sheet, which I wrote before the audition that has all of the made up history for the character on it, and under the heading vocal traits, I had written gravely Bill Cosby.

The high energy I can understand. I am high energy, and maybe a cool jazz man would be low key, but do they know be-bop! That aint low energy. Hello, he wasn't called Dizzy because he was a bore! Still, I will try and give them what they want. It is just I have to do it next week, when I introduce my second character.

I don't know his name yet. In fact, I don't think I will know his name. He is going to be a guy who woke up in a motel with total amnesia, and blood on his hands! No ID, and the blood isn't his! Also, the register has listed a name as the room's occupant, but we don't know if that is him, or the dead person!

All very exciting. I don't know who I love more. I really love Nat, but that is because I just did him last night, and he got a bad reception. I am protecting him, like a concerned mother would.

Anyway, we will find out after next Thursday who is going to be who. Stay tuned....