Clearing the path I should have stayed on

When I was a kid, I had a desire to get involved with the drama productions in school. I was in some plays at West Essex High in Caldwell, NJ, The Playcrafters with my good friend Toni Bull (before she became a big TV star and married Gene Bua) & Van Nuys High in So Cal. Then I made the mistake of putting all that away and getting on with a career in television production and programming. No matter how well I did as a TV exec and I was blessed with a career that lasted thirty-five years, for all that time I couldn't shake the feeling that I was standing on the sidelines watching others - the actors in the shows I oversaw and administered - doing what I wanted to do. So now that I'm not "exec-ing" anymore, I'm joining in with others in my community to keep local community theater alive. A couple of years ago I joined examiner.com to write about theater in Boise. Last year, I performed with the Boise Little Theater in The Mousetrap and this year I'll start rehearsals tomorrow to prepare for performing in a send-up of A Christmas Carol playing an actor playing Scrooge. I'll let you know how it goes.

Getting started...

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A few years ago, my wife & I were watching "Failure to Launch" and there was a scene in which Terry Bradshaw took over his son's bedroom and created his "naked room", a place he could go & be himself. I thought this was a great idea. Everyone should have a place like that. When the opportunity presented itself, I claimed a room in the house and it became a place where I could think, create, read, work, and write. This is an extension of The Naked Room.