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Obscura, Toneelraad, Rotterdam, Netherlands 1976 - Music director
and actor.
La Mama Experimental Theater N.Y., N.Y. 1975 – 1976 - Musician and actor in La Mama’s prize-winning
international tour of Medea, Elektra, and the Trojan Women.
Kraft Music Hall Thanksgiving and Christmas shows, N.Y. N.Y. 1968...now
that really was fun as a kid and I learned that roast beef sandwiches are
actually better with cole slaw and swiss! And I joined AFTRA (the American Federation of Television and Recording Artists) and I should have kept up my dues gol-darnit-blankety-blank-whatever-big-brothers-we-have!...I got paid $20 an hour or so, which was huge at the time. As a beginning computer programmer I earned about $3.50 an hour in 1973...5 years later! A show took somewhere between 15 and 40 hours to film as I recall. Kicking myself. Unions are a good idea just ask Tom Joad. I was privileged to work with Burl Ives (seemed like a
very nice guy...aka Jiminy Cricket), Angie Dickinson, Gunilla Knutson, the Noxema take it off, take it all off, girl, (sigh), Alan King, Don Rickles (ok not so fun), Terry Thomas, Eddy Arnold, Zsa Zsa Gabor if I remember correctly, Paul Lynde who was very kind and a real trouper in contrast with his somewhat creepy image, and others whom I unfortunately forget. And I got to meet Burt Bacharach who was there to see Angie. Oh wow, someone archived one of the shows on YouTube!! Click here to see and hear me as a hmmm 16 or 17 year old? and many other current geezers ... wow I didn't realize how many of us were cute teenagers on TV.
Also:
cabbie, dishwasher, handyman, baker, paid choir singer, swimming pool builder, house painter, newspaper delivery boy.
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