'SAME TIME NEXT YEAR' - 2005
This role was especially challenging. This was my Canadian debut. With respect to age, I had to look and move about as if I were in my mid to-late-thirties for the first scene and age 5 years for each subsequent scene. In preparation I went into a year of training, lost an extra ten pounds (got down to 137 lbs) and worked on doing some vigorous 'falls' over furniture. The character of George is very neurotic. It required learning a nervous speech pattern and voice characteristic that would modified somewhat in each scene and especially for the last act at age 60. In essence this role required me to portray six different characters! Rather than an immitation of the archetype role Alan Alda made famous, my work at the Louisville Studio for Actors enabled be to create a 'George' that has been most likened to a combination of Jack Lemon and Dick Van Dyke.
ACT I -1951: George and Doris are in their 30s, she has just gotten out of bed.
1951 - Doris is sneaking out while - George is checking the place for any tell-tale clues.
1965 - The Hippy & the Executive
