AVENUE Q

I'll be back in Italy in October...it's been quite a while since last time I was there (End of August, beginning of September 2006).

I'm going for the opening night of Avenue Q, directed by Stefano and with my best friend as one of the leads...I'm so thrilled for them!
Stefano worked so hard for this show and I hope it will be a huge success for them!

I'll be surely cheering them on!

Life is good over here...I've been working quite a lot, I recorded many voice overs this summer, one for a Munich documentary, another one was an Italian application for the IPhone, then I had a huge project for an on-line Italian dictionary...I had to tape more than 72000 words it took me more than two months, but now I truly know my language inside out hehehe...
I taped a bunch of others VO and tomorrow I have another one for a learning product in the morning...

Then on Wednesday I'll be shooting a short independent film that will be submitted to festivals.
it's a sweet story and I'm very much looking forward to it, it was also cool because i got the job right at the audition...made me feel pretty good gotta say ;)

I was also asked to write a weekly blog for a new website created by artists and for artist and I was very honored!
Here it is if you wanna check it out:
www.forumartistico.com

Off to work now...I'm teaching my acting class tonight and I'm always looking forward to it.

We didn't make it

Yesterday I received the letter from the Fringe...I saw the letter...a regular letter...and I just knew...

I remembered when i received the reply for BAAAHHH!!!...it was this big heavy envelope...

Not this time...

I opened it just looking for THE words...and there they were "we are sorry to inform you..." I closed it...

I felt a bit sad of course...but inside I also knew that I didn't feel the same passion I felt for BAAAHHH!!! for this new project...so I let it go...

I knew I had a friend who applied with a show as well and I just had my fingers crossed for him...later in the afternoon he told me he got in :) I was thrilled for him...it's his first time for at the Fringe and he wrote the show...I'll be there supporting him...and I'm so very happy for him :)

Things happen for a reason and maybe it's better this way for me...Stefano is super busy in Italy with a bunch of new show and he's bringing Avenue Q there and he's working like a mad man for that...
On my side I just booked 2 huge voice overs in New York and one of them will keep me bnusy until the end of July...

I'm also looking for a new project...something that will excite me the same way our little sheep did...

Thanks to all of you who are still stopping by here...

Any day now we'll get an answer from the Fringe...I can't wait!!!

My heart is with Italy
This horrible earthquake is the worst one Italy had since the one in the '80s...I remember that one very well...

My heart goes to everybody who's be affected...my family and friends are safe and I thank the Universe for that!
But they all heard it and it was very strong...some of my friend knew people in that area who lost everything...

A thought, a prayer is for all of them...

Rights

Another good news is that we got the rights for the show...now we have to wait for the Fringe to send us a reply...to see if we'll make it into their festival this year...we should hear back from them around mid April...

Yesterday I got few ideas for the show and I have my fingers crossed...it would be great to be back at the Fringe Festival especially after we did it once...now we really have a better understanding of how the festival works...

YES WE CAN!!!

These are few words about our new project by Mr. Genovese, enjoy it :)

Kenneth is the husband, the more exposed member of the contemporary weaker sex. He is what is today’s real weaker sex.

Weak because he cannot decide between an ex-wife, Hilary, who cooks like a gourmet chef and his wife, Laura, who satisfies his erotic dreams. And so Kenneth cheats on the housewife, Hilary, with a bombshell lover, Laura, who, bored of being a lover, decides to become a bombshell wife, who then Kenneth cheats on with the housewife lover Hilary.

Weak towards them because he doesn't have the power to choose which of the two is his wife. Weak in the pitiful fact that the only thing that he can chose is that the other is his lover. Weak towards himself, because he cannot let go of the other as a lover.

Weak because in the attempt to maneuver the strings of his two puppets, those same strings get tied up in a net which traps him like a fish raised in a house aquarium. But far from being a house pet he reveals himself to really be an animal in captivity: raised and nourished to be eaten.

We are not talking about people. We are talking about two women with a function that makes them feeling accomplished, and about a man with two needs to satisfy. In short we are talking about relationships. About love.

The woman who cooked her husband is a dry dark comedy, basic, direct, true. Characters with few lines, nuances, who in their short 'domestic' existence, pursue their purposes essentially. They don't have a life outside; probably they don't exist outside that door. Everything that is on the other side of that front door, in that city, whether is a deserted suburb, an anonymous metropolis or a sleepy town, must be even more anonymous and flavorless of this existence of theirs, if they decide that this tenacity towards their lives is the best choice.

One of the most unmerciful portraits of the holy sanctity of marriage.

Based on millions of true stories, and if it's not your story is your neighbor's.