We have a Thespian among us!

Subject: We have a Thespian among us!
From: open mike
Date: 13 Mar 05 - 12:36 AM

Our own darling Jimmy T is performing on stage in a musical called
Pump Boys and Dinettes - The pump boys sell high octane on Highway 57 in Grand Ole Opry country, and the dinettes (Prudie and Rhetta Cupp) run the Double Cupp diner next door. Together they fashion an evening of country western songs on guitars, piano, bass and, yes, even kitchen utensils.

ah ha--there is the connection--kitchen utensils?/!!
maybe even spatulas!

http://www.musicalheaven.com/p/pump_boys_and_dinettes.shtml

http://www.mikecraver.com/markpbd.html

http://www.tonytee.nl/theatre/pumpboys/indexpump.shtml

sounds like fun...Jimmy I mean Jackson..break a leg!

Subject: RE: We have a Thespian among us!
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Mar 05 - 09:30 AM

Don't forget the potato peelers, ala Night Owl's Christmas!

Congratulations, JimmyT!!!

Subject: RE: We have a Thespian among us!
From: jacqui.c
Date: 13 Mar 05 - 09:32 AM

Great news Jimmy - just don't start tagging people during the performance!

Subject: RE: We have a Thespian among us!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Mar 05 - 11:21 AM

If you're going to thesp in here, you make sure you clean it up!

Break a wossname sweetie!

LTS

Subject: RE: We have a Thespian among us!
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Mar 05 - 10:23 PM

Will he be wearing his thongs on stage?
Have fun jimmy!

Subject: RE: We have a Thespian among us!
From: jimmyt
Date: 13 Mar 05 - 10:53 PM

Blush! I do not wear a thong onstage! Apart from the occasional nude scene, it is family entertainment. Today we performed a sunday matinee, finished at 3:45, rushed home and rehearsed the real music, folk for three hours for an upcoming St Paddy's gig. What a nice thought to put this in a thread!

I am , in fact, a closet thespian. I have been performing, directing or writing shows for the last 14 years now. It has given me a different perspective on entertainment although I have been performing music since I was a kid. The one great thing the stage has done for me is bring me to the upright bass. I was going to audition for a play called Smoke on the MOuntain a few years back and the part I was auditioning for required that I play bass. I knew another performer was already a bass player and it would be difficult to possibly get the part unless I could show some hopes of being able to play a bit of bass, so I borrowed the high school bass, taught myself to muddle by a bit in three chord studd in G and D enough to get the part. I have found the bass to be my favorite instrument ever, and as a result, have come to folk music. Probably one of the more roundabout way of becoming a folkie! Thanks again for the nice sentiments.   jimmyt

Subject: RE: We have a Thespian among us!
From: jimmyt
Date: 13 Mar 05 - 10:54 PM

By the way, that post has perhaps my longest run-on sentense ever! Sorry!

Subject: RE: We have a Thespian among us!
From: number 6
Date: 13 Mar 05 - 11:20 PM

'Break a leg' Jimmy !

congrats!

sIx

Subject: RE: We have a Thespian among us!
From: Peace
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 01:06 AM

Congratulations, jimmyt. I wasn't aware that you were a thespian, although I did know you were an actor. It doesn't change my opinion of you one bit. You da man.

Subject: RE: We have a Thespian among us!
From: Cllr
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 04:32 AM

Go for it Dr.T.!

Subject: RE: We have a Thespian among us!
From: Big Mick
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 12:24 PM

Good on ya! Break a leg.

Mick

Subject: RE: We have a Thespian among us!
From: thespionage
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 01:13 PM

Great! I am a thespian as well, as indicated by my user name. Break a leg.

Russ
Practitioner of Thespionage

Subject: RE: We have a Thespian among us!
From: Don Firth
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 01:21 PM

Waitaminute, waitaminute!!! I don't get this! A thesbian is a woman who likes other women, right? Then how can jimmyt be a--

Oh! 'scuse me!

(Sorry, but it had to be done.)

Don Firth

Subject: RE: We have a Thespian among us!
From: jimmyt
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 02:05 PM

Don, I am no great verbal usage expert, but I think you are thinking oa a Lebanese.

Subject: RE: We have a Thespian among us!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 02:38 PM

Actually, I must admit to having thesped in my youth.... in frilly knickers and period gowns no less!

LTS

Subject: RE: We have a Thespian among us!
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 02:59 PM

Disgusting! All these thespians coming out of the closet, practicing their horrid and unnatural practices before everybody, degrading themselves in public! Yeah, yeah, some people say it's genetic, but WE know better! As it says in the Bible or somewhere. PREverts, that's what they are! And I should know, for I once had top billing in Shaw's "Androcles." But I have since seen the light and been converted and...what? my own BROTHER?!...awards for his thespianism? BOTH brothers? AND my very own FATHER?? Well! You just can't tell, can you? Those thespians must be awfully wonderful people and should be encouraged.

Break a leg, Doc.

Subject: RE: We have a Thespian among us!
From: Cool Beans
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 03:24 PM

Don't know where you are, Jimmy, but you're in illustrious company. In the 1980s there was a touring "Pump Boys and Dinettes" whose cast included Tom Chapin, Maria Muldaur and a young, pre-famous Shawn Colvin. They were terrific, as I'm betting you are, too. Break a leg!

Subject: RE: We have a Thespian among us!
From: Don Firth
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 07:35 PM

You mean Danny Thomas liked women? Well, yeah, I would have thought so. Boy, am I getting confused!!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: We have a Thespian among us!
From: jimmyt
Date: 14 Mar 05 - 10:18 PM

Danny Thomas liked boys, as in his song, Oh Danny Boy.

Subject: RE: We have a Thespian among us!
From: Don Firth
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 02:23 PM

You mean he was an ancient Greek philosopher with a penchant for Irish folk songs? I thought he was a thespian.

Jeez! We're right back where we started!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: We have a Thespian among us!
From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 04:57 PM

Well if we are are telling our deep dark secrets- I was in a movie- with Patrick Swazey!!! (Next of Kin). Not signing my name.