Performers Needed

Looking for performers for the stage play Cmere.  This stage play will be based in Portland Maine.

Cmere is taken place in a waiting room at a hospital where the McClearys wait for their mother's prognosis. The question is in the air who phoned for the ambulance and it was a big mystery to them.

They all start rambling on about their lives and secrets. Another question lays in the air wondering who really is there for the money because they all knew their mother has alot of money stashed away and most likely is in the Will somewhere.

Little that they suspect, all along in the waiting room the caller has been with them the whole time listening in every word that they say and every move that they make and he is very disgusted on how they are behaving and suddenly explodes with rage due to the fact that they aren't really there for her but there for the money.

If you have any questions about the following characters, please let me know:

ARNOLD McCLEARY also known as "Arnie" is in his mid-40s who works at a bank which explains why he enters the stage in his suit coming to the hospital from work He is the older brother. He holds a deep secret from his wife Bernie for a long time because he knows she doesn't know when to keep her big mouth shut.

BERNADATTE McCLEARY also known as "Bernie" is Arnie's wife and is always in everybody's business and loves juicy gossip. She doesn't know when to keep quiet. She is not to fond of Arnie's younger sister and always has something to say about Caroline whenever she's not around.

CAROLINE McCLEARY is Arnie's younger sister who is spunky and knows how to have a good laugh. she cannot stand whenever Bernie's is around. Caroline speaks how she feels especially when Bernie's is concerned. although she holds a secret and tries to tell Arnie that she is in love with their cousin David.
Caroline knows about Arnie's secret and doesn't care if Arnie hurts Bernie's feelings at all.

COUSIN DAVID The role is for one who looks in his late 30s. Able to know a little about card tricks and
be able to perform a trick or two on stage. Cousin David's secret is that he is dating and inlove with his cousin Caroline.

TOYBOY This role is for a someone in the 20s, very short and very little to say on stage. He is the mysterious person who called for the ambulance and his secret is that he has been dating the McCleary's mother.

Extra for a music video

April 9, 2009
This was posted on my myspace account

I just got an email from one of my yahoogroups which they are looking for extras for a music video which will be for extras and featured extras on May 4th for men and women 20-40.  The video will be a song from the 50s and takes place in a night club.

I told my friend Marcia about this and we both had emailed our photo headshot to them which they have been requesting.  We hope to hear from them sometime really soon.  Its only a matter of couple of days until they shoot the video.

Dream of a writer

I was walking on the other side of the street when passing my friend's house.  She and her husband were in their front yard relaxing the sunshine with some music.  Her husband was sitting at the window from the inside looking out.

She was holding up waving the book in the air getting herself overexcited.  The book turned out to be the novel that I had written and finally got published.  I walked across the street as she congratulated me about publishing my first novel and wanted me to autograph the book.

She wanted to do a toast so she poured some kind of drinking beverage which looked like white wine.  As she was toasting, I looked over at her husband and he was crying.  He knew I wanted my book published.  He then pointed over out to the street and told me they were waiting for me.  I then started to hear voices and noises getting closer and closer.  I looked behind my shoulders and a big crowd of people who approaching the house holding swinging my novel in the air waiting for it to get autographed.

New beginning

So its a new beginning here in Maine, with new adventures and experiences.

Disappointment with Model Actor Factor, LCC

I haven't thought about acting when I came back to the United States until I moved to Vancouver Washington 2009.  My friend Marcia was telling me that she was working in Model Actor Factor LCC which is an agency.  It was a disappointment when she didn't give me those phone calls the way she was suppose to.  Its not very professional of her.  She tells me she emails me, but I don't check my emails on a frequent basis.  I keep telling her to call me when there is something going on, just like the way she does with the more advance actors that she calls.  I hate people who are not professional about their work.  Hmmm interesting.  Yep, very disappointment.

So it was time to move on so I left Washington to move to Maine 2011.  So all I could say is "na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye"

Student's project - homeless on the streets

Yesterday I had an interesting day.  I was in the town for appointments.  I was waiting for the bus when I saw a few students coming down the street holding a video camera.  They had stopped me and explained to me that they had a project to do for class and they had asked a few people but they turned them down.  I felt kind of bad for them so I told them that I would do it.  They were so excited that one of the girls had hugged me.  They explained to me what I needed to do.  I played a role as a homeless person in the streets. It was fun that it only took about 15 minutes to do a few shoots. 

These students were so appreciated that they bunched in and gave me $20.00 and thanked me for helping them out. I thought,  wow that's great. Twenty dollars in my pocket.

Stage fright

People approach me and ask if I ever get stage fright on stage.  Of course I do.  I don't know anyone who has an interest in performing arts or even have to go in front of a large group of people and speak out who would not have that feeling of stage fright.  I personally don't speak out in front of a group, I don't like the idea of speaking in front of a group.  I think that speaking in public is slightly different from from putting on an act on stage.  When a person acts on stage, they are not looking into the crowd, but the speaker would talk into the crowd.  The actor would have less fear from stage fright even though their stage fright will still remain than the person who is speaking in public. The reason why actors still have stage fright is because they still have that sunk into their head that people are going to be watching them perform, and I think it is right before the curtains open the actor would feel that the most.  I think that once the actor starts performing, they will feel more comfortable.  Sometimes psyching yourself up can help.  If you are in rehearsals, the time that you have to perform for real, you could still psych yourself up by thinking that the real performance is just another rehearsal.  Some people suggest imagining the audience in their underwear.  I am not sure if that really works.  I haven't used that technique and I don't think it would work for me.  I also think that with speakers who speak to the public, can help themselves by rehearsing in small groups that you know.  Perhaps have some people that you know come into the audience so that the speaker doesn't have to feel nervous or panicky.  But the fact is that you will be alright at the end of the day.

The "LIKE" button

you know, it is really annoying when you send your friends on facebook links to something that you hope for them to subscribe to or join, even attach a note along with your link.  They tend to click on the "like" button and they don't even bother opening the link you sent them.  What's the point of sending them links if they are going to click on the "like" button.  If there was a way to delete the "like" button, I would.  

I had created a yahoo group for The Hip show and I sent out a link to friends about The Hip Show's yahoogroup and by them signing up to the yahoogroup will give them updates on what is happening with the show and to be sure to join so they could get those updates.

There were quite a few who just clicked on the 'like' button, and there were a few who deleted that entry. When I noticed this, I then continued with my message by typing, "PLEASE DO NOT CLICK ON THE LIKES AS IT DOESN'T HELP THE YAHOOGROUP. WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT ON THIS BY JOINING IN ON THE GROUP."

The like button happens to be an issue that everybody falls into as a simple response.  Actually I think that by clicking on the like button is a lazy way to respond.  Don't get me wrong, that I do click on the like button every once in a while, but what I try to do is click the like button with a following message to give them some feedback.

Can you do the accent?

I was having such a blast in Ireland with Performing Arts that I was wondering if I could get into any community theater.  Bernadette had introduced me to Eddie Kerr, who is a producer and script writer for theater. 

I do have to thank Bernadette for introducing me to more theater work. 

Eddie Kerr was working on a play for "The Interrogation of Ambrose Fogarty".  I was going to play an English Officer and I couldn't get that damn English accent.  I couldn't pick it up.  You would had thought after 8 years of living in Ireland I would had picked up with the accent.

Since I couldn't do the English accent, Eddie Kerr still had me participate in the show.  I had worked on the stage lighting/sounds.  This was interesting.  I ended up enjoying this.  I wouldn't mind working on Stage lighting/sounds again.

Blog Talk Radio

As you well know that I had created a blogtalkradio for The Hip Show.  Its been a success during the Christmas holidays and enjoyed working on the show.  I do continue to work on the show.  I am presently looking for actors, singers, and so on to be able to come onto the show as a special guest to discuss topics of the show. 

I do have another blogtalkradio account for the bear community so I am just starting out that show.  A few people are interested in the show and discuss the possibilities. I hope to see something good on these shows.  Only time will tell.

The Hip Show

My friend Marcia from (Model Actor Factor) had created a FaceBook page and called it The Marcia & Brian’s Dance Party and she wanted me to be part of the page as a modulator.  The page was for placing music & music videos from back in the day bringing back those members from the 70s, 80s & 90s.  We then had discussed about having The Marcia & Brian’s Dance Party as a show on UStream so I created the page under my account.  I thought it would be a good idea to have our own talk show playing music and discussions.  It turned out that it was difficult for Marcia to participate in The Marcia & Brian’s Dance Party and only participated in one show out of 7 shows altogether that I ended up stopping further shows because she was letting me down so many times.  I felt that it wasn’t The Marcia & Brian’s Dance Party if she doesn’t participate, so after our Christmas special 2010, I stopped further shows.

The Hip Show was born around Christmas 2010.  I wanted to do something with this show.  I felt The Hip Show has potential and wanted to do something different.  I created an account for The Hip Show on Ustream and just started off with just plain talking.  I then created a Twitter account as well as a Facebook page for The Hip Show. 

Fall of 2011 came and I had just realized I forgotten that I have an account with blogtalkradio so I decided to use my blogtalkradio account for The Hip Show and started making shows around Thanksgiving and have been making shows ever since.

Listen to internet radio with beefybri on Blog Talk Radio

Couple of EXTRAS in Derry

During the Eurocat program at The Playhouse, I made a new friend.  Her name was Angela.  We built up a very nice friendship.  I found it very interesting how she knew when movies were going to be filmed in Derry.  There was one movie called Sunset Heights where we booked as extras.  Shawna Rooney who was the co-ordinater for Eurocat at the time was becoming difficult that she wanted us to work on our show rather than running off onto the set of Sunset Heights.  There were five of us that went down to be extras.  It was our opportunity of a few seconds of fame.  Sadly to say that when the movie came out, our scene as extras was pretty dark due to the fact that the scene supposedly been Halloween night.

Angela did it again.  She found another movie called Surfing with William.  We both played Paparazzi photographers.  We really enjoyed the 10 minute movie when it came out.  Actually, I never saw the movie until about 4 years ago when it appeared on YouTube so that was really nice to see.

The Playhouse Theater

So the two year Community Drama was finished up at MaGee University in Derry Ireland.  What happens now?   I thought about this and I have to say that did enjoy the class and you know what?  If I could to do it again I would.  That class was fun and I realized that I also enjoyed performing on stage.  My friend Bernadette from class introduced me a program called EuroCAT at The Playhouse. 

EuroCAT stands for Euro because it’s in the European and CAT for Community Arts Training.  I thought that was interesting.  EuroCAT is a 10-week course (1 night a week), that covers a variety of things such as Visual Arts, Improvisations, Community Drama, Dancing, Stage Lighting and a few other areas.  I could only imagine how well EuroCAT had progressed because nobody knew how it was going to turn out.  The time that I attended the EuroCAT program, that was the second season for The Playhouse has been organizing EuroCAT.

We had to do a performance on our 10^th week and it could be anything that we wanted to do for our piece for week 10.  My piece was a battle between two lions where later they become friends walking away.  The girl who was my partner of this project backed out because she felt that she couldn’t do it.  I had to figure out what to do with my piece.  I got my friend Angela to participate in my performance as well as another girl.  Now I got some actors I could think about what to do with my performance.  I had to perfect idea and that was about a girl’s fairytale.  Angela played the part of the little girl.  There was the other woman who was the fairy, and of course I was Jack from the Jack In The Box.  The storyline of this fairytale was that the little girl was grounded and was sent to her room.  There she throws a slight fit and then finds herself falling asleep beside the big jumble size Jack in the box.  Of course I played the role of Jack.  She wakes up and discovers a fairy dancing around in her room.  She waves her wand and brings Jack to life where they started dancing around the room.  The three of them were having so much fun when the little girl hears her mother to come down for her dinner.  Jack jumped back into his box, the little girl hugs Jack.  He waves to the little girl, the fairy waves her magic wand into the hair and taps her wand to Jack and switches him back into a toy again.

The story of C'mere

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Copyright redesigned © 2009
Copyright revised  © 2012

Brian Doherty

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The script is called Cmere taken place in a waiting room in the hospital where family awaits for their mother's prognosis trying to figure out the mysterious person who called for the ambulance. The caller who happens to be the toyboy of the family's mother finds himself in the middle of the family affairs watching every move that they make. To make things more interesting, Blabber-mouth Bernadette, the wife of oldest son Arnie, continues on complaining.  She is always into everybody's business.   Arnie's sister Caroline just cannot stand Bernadette. Suddenly everything evolves around secrets and Bernadette just had to get to the bottom of them all and gets the shock of her life at the end.

Stage play writing

I had been thinking about Ireland and about the C'mere script which my acting friends and I had gathered and performed back in 1996 when we were acting class. 

C'mere is only about 25-minutes long.  About a year I was working on the script, fooling around with the script and extending it to a full length 2-hour stage play.  So I decided that I am going to dig into my file for the script and start working on it again.  I really do think this script has potential and would leave viewers laughing.  I will be working around my busy schedule around the script by working on the play for about an hour, every other day or couple of days. 

My first agent.....wow what a let down

Since my friend Marcia has been working for Model Actor Factor Lcc, she came to me with possible auditions.  I have been with the agency for 2 years until I then moved to Maine.  I never saw any action from the agency except for having my picture on the agency's website.  This was a let down.  There were a couple of parts she was mentioning to me such as the Chevy commercial, which could had been my big break in commercials.  But I never heard anything about it.  I asked Marcia about the Chevy commercial and she told me that they went to Seattle Washington to do the commercial.  From my understanding is that (And I will quote her on this) "I call everybody about parts".   I call everybody?  Really?  I never got a call from her about that they went up North.

She then mentioned about a part in Grimm and put my name down - supposedly.  I never heard anything from that either.  I do consider myself amatuer actor on the side but c'mon, lets get with the program.  One thing that I do not like is people wasting my time and getting my hopes up for nothing.  I also noticed that she stayed very close with the bigger actors that have connections with celebrities.  She may deny this but that is one thing she cannot accept is the truth that she was wrong.

She had let me down many times and she threw made this as a habit out of it that I just had given up on that.  Not for just parts that she let me down, but on getting together as friends as well to hang out.  Once I got the news about the Chevy commercial, and the many times I invited her over to come hang out and let me down like that without any phone calls that she was going to be late or not show up, I was done.  I was getting sick and tired of just being a face for Model Actor Factor that nothing was happening.  There was all talk but no action.  I had enough of it.