VLOG: RENT

COMIC SHORT: "It's an Occupy Christmas!"

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COMIC SHORT: "NEW & USED"

Q:  Funny or Die?  
A:  Funny.

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COMIC SHORT: "NEW & USED" Theatrical Trailer

PS -- here is the amazingly inappropriate trailer for my new short film, called "NEW & USED"... starring me, Richard Kind, and half the cast of ENTER LAUGHING in the Hamptons.  Enjoy!

BLOG: Exit Laughing

This is a strange thing, the end of ENTER LAUGHING at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, New York.  The first reading of this musical was in the Fall of 2007.  Several readings later, it became an off-Broadway production at the York Theatre in 2008 and closed there in early 2009.  Here we are in 2011, many of us have been together in this since the beginning (Jill Eikenberry, Michael Tucker, Emily Shoolin, Erick Devine, Paul Binotto, Gerry McIntyre).  Others joined us along the way and are still gracing the boards (Ray DeMattis, Betsy DiLellio). New faces here at Bay Street are easily assimilated into the family (Richard Kind, Kate Shindle, Eric Mann, Gina Milo).  Old faces who have come and gone still play on the stages of our collective memory (George S. Irving, Bob Dishy, Robb Sapp, Kelly Sullivan, Allison Spratt, Matt Castle, Kaitlin Hopkins, Marla Schaffel, Janine LaManna, Trisha Rapier and others).  We've been through much together... everything from mountains of great reviews to a sprinkling of bad ones; marriages (including mine), divorces; deaths (Bruce Adler, Joseph Stein), sickness and health. It's so strange that we've reunited for this last production... a wondrous sort of strange.

A lot may be said about what this production was or what it wasn't. It was a giant backers audition for the producers who wanted to champion it to Broadway against all odds. It was a reunion for a group of ragtag actors who love one another dearly.  It was a reminder that theatre isn't always about flying actors, falling chandeliers, or smoke & mirrors. It was a reminder that comedy still survives in simple places that we thought time may have forgotten.  It was a chance to rework a script and a score, and to hammer out those last few kinks... regardless of whether or not we actually took that chance. It was an investment for a wonderful not-for-profit theatre in the Hamptons -- that has paid itself off in spades.  Perhaps it was all of these things, but most of all -- for me -- it was a chance to relive a glorious part of my not-so-distant past.  A chance to embrace this gem one last time before it either fades into memory or becomes the giant Broadway hit that it was always wanton and deserving to be.  Either way, I'm thankful for it.  

ENTER LAUGHING is like an old friend who's going away, and you're not sure whether you're ever going to see them again. If yes, then we'll all rejoice together again some day.  If no, then at least I can say we sent her off in style, with happy and thankful hearts.  

So long, 174th Street.  ;)