Every Day is A Goat Day to Rodeo Hard!
In honor of "Goat Rodeo V: A Goat Day To Rodeo Hard" opening yesterday and us saddling up to do it again tonight, I will tell a story about one of my favorite moments with these Goats- audition day! And I’m not just saying that because there were donuts and pizza, because we always have tons of snacks- we’re grazers.
At this point we were a small but strong herd of writers, and we needed a team of what I'll refer to as "show goats" to perform the things we wrote on paper. PS- ever been in a writer room with goats? Not many of the paper scripts survive because we eat most of them. Anyway, I digress.
Some of us writer’s who wanted to perform sat in during the whole process- Aaron Hertzog, Chris McGrail and myself. Add the head writer and director, a Brian Kelly, and an occasional pop-in from fellow GR writers- it's a party, people. And that was before auditioners even came!
Since it was a long day (from 9am to 6pm roughly) and we had so many stand-out auditions, I'm just going to give a brief summary of the ones who became our fellow goats!
Kristy Goldy: Goldy was one of the last auditions of the day, and this was the first time most of us had every met her. She busted out some killer fake Kidz Bop songs and sang them very impressively. The rest, as they say, is history.
Matt Lamson: Matt re-enacted a conversation between two co-workers, switching chairs and voices seamlessly. It was especially hilarious towards the end when they’d cut each other off a lot and he had to run back and forth.
Kevin Petit: Kevin did a superb rendition of Hamlet, seriously and overly theatrical. Not many people could pull off Hamlet at a comedy audition, but Kevin had us all cracking up- I can safely say he’s one of few who can.
Sue Taney: Sue brought her dog, Kobayashi, and acted out the P.S.A. on Salt-n-Pepa’s “Very Necessary” entitled “I Got AIDS.” Kobi played the role of Mario, and both performances were riveting.
Kaitlin Thompson: Kait started the audition boldly- with Thank You cards for each of us in the room containing $1 and no message inside but a hand-drawn winky-face. She then listed what she would, wouldn’t, and couldn't yet do in performances. One of her “couldn’t yet’s” was a cartwheel.
Zachary Uzupis: We had all never met Zach before, and he came in and wowed us with three characters. If we all had to chose a favorite, I think it would be a unanimous vote for the guy who wanted to get revenge on birds because they kept pooping on him...the revenge was always interrupted by more bird poop. It was a lovely start to the whole day!
And there you have it! A very brief description of a few of the auditions that stole our hearts! Our 5th show “A Goat Day To Rodeo Hard” runs tonight and then again next week on 4/23 & 4/24 at 9PM at Philly Improv Theater! Come check it out!
