After my brief hiatus due to over-saturation from all things The Love Project, I am back to working on the script and collecting more stories about love, sex, relationships, break-ups, break-downs, and all that touchy feely stuff.  So tell me your story!

Here’s How it Works:

1.  Contact me via email at theloveproject88@gmail.com

2.  We set up a time to meet, usually an hour will suffice

3.  You fill out some forms that describe the nature of the research, your involvement, how the material will be used, and so forth

4.  I turn on my digital recorder and we chat!  It’s painless and I hope enjoyable!

Things to consider:

1.  All participants names and involvement in The Love Project is 100% confidential

2.  You don’t have to tell me anything you don’t want to!  The content of your story is completely up to you.

3.  No story is boring!   The fact that it happened to you and comes from your own point of view and in your voice makes it unique.

4.  Tell a friend or family member!  Have a grandma who loves to chat?  Send her my way!

Contact theloveproject88@gmail.com for more information or to schedule an interview!

Peter Filichia’s frank and funny review for the Off Broadway production featured on Broadway Radio’s This Week on Broadway.  To listen to Peter’s review click the Broadway Radio icon below and fast forward to  29:46.

“The way he morphed himself into these other people really showed tremendous skill.  There were times when I couldn’t even tell if he was young, if he was old, because he was so good at becoming other characters, he really flummoxed me, he’s that much of a chameleon.  He did the best thing possible, he made me hungry for more.  I enjoyed it immeasurably.”

~ Peter Filichia for Broadway Radio’s This Week on Broadway

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, then you’ll go grab a late dinner.

The Love Project

Wed November 2nd

@ Theatre ROW Studio Theatre

410 W 42nd st

9 p.m.

Tickets $18

Love is for believers, love is for dreamers, love is for suckers.

Wednesday, November 2nd

9 p.m.

Theatre ROW Studio Theatre

410 W 42nd St

$18

2.  I’m single and looking to mingle.  So if awkward out of work actors are your thing….

3.  I don’t get naked.

4.  There’s a 20% chance I will forget my lines and without a stage manager, hilarity will undoubtably ensue.

5.  My friend Brooke will be in the tech booth.  She is a sexy, vivacious, single woman.  I’m not trying to whore her out, I’m just saying, she might be available for a little pinch and tickle.

6.  You ever wondered what your parents would say about each other if given an hour, a microphone, and a sympathetic gay.

7.  You want to see some theatre, but don’t want to have to take out a loan to do it.

8.  You know me personally and can’t wait to tell all of our mutual acquaintances how much the show sucked.

9.  You’re casting a new sitcom and need an actor who’s just shy of good looking.

10.  You are a skeptic regarding love, romance, and partnership, but at the end of the day you secretly wish for all three.

Getting my promotion on over here y’all thanks to my friend Chad Sell, who is way smarter and better at all of this than I.   Check out all of his cool work!

www.chadsellcomics.com

The United Solo Theatre Festival in NYC begins in 2 1/2 weeks!

Ufest is a month long theatre festival at Theatre ROW in NYC comprised entirely of original solo shows.

Click the link above to view the full festival line-up.

And don’t forget to get your tickets for The Love Project

Wed Nov 2nd @ 9 p.m.

By Clicking the Telecharge link below, tickets are only $18!

So what if I am?  Stereotypical?  Perhaps.  Am I ashamed?  A little.

Since walking on that gymnasium stage my freshman year of high school in a run down building in the middle of central Illinois as part of the cast of, yup you guessed it, ‘Grease’, I have been in love with musical theatre.

My love  for the genre hasn’t wained much in the years since.  However, I can no longer appreciate performances simply because they are taking place in a musical.  I spent a year of my life bartending in the lobbies of Broadway theaters and I know what a good performance looks like.  After watching Marin Mazzie being rehearsed into ‘Spamalot’, Fantasia ripping out her vocal chords 4 shows a week (she called out all the time, mostly due to domestic disputes) in ‘The Color Purple’, and Carolee Carmello making shit material in ‘Mamma Mia’ seem like Shakespeare I know when a performance in a musical is more than just parking and barking.  These people are actors, some of the best working in the theatre I would argue, and their voices and vocal pyrotechnics may have gotten them to the top of the heap of musical theatre performers working today, but it’s their ability to interpret the material that keeps them there.

So few singers understand that as an audience member I don’t give a shit what your voice sounds like if you are not performing the life out of whatever you are singing.

So fine call me a show queen.  But at least I’m a show queen with taste.

TEN MUSICAL THEATRE PERFORMANCES I’M IN LOVE WITH

1.  Sutton Foster  ’Someone Elses Story’

2.  Andrew Rannells ‘I Believe’

3.  Jen Colella & Lisa Brescia ‘Who Will Love Me as I Am’

4.  Carolee Carmello ‘The Winner Takes it All’

5.  Raul Esparza ‘Being Alive’

6.  Beth Leavel ‘As We Stumble Along’

7.  Christine Ebersole ‘Around The World’

8.  Jeffrey Sewell ‘So Much Better’

9.  Fantasia ‘I’m Here’

10.  Stephanie J. Block ‘Get Out and Stay Out’