Doug Schuetz

Doug Schuetz:

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Hello Blog, remember me?   Goal in 2016 is to crank this up again.    Had my best live theater adventure ever last weekend and saw three shows.    THE FLICK at Steppenwolf.  My kind of show with super long "real" Pauses.  Added up to three hours of show.  Yikes.  I saw the movie theater set swept up about 8 times by the cast.  Wow.      There were silences in that show to challenge even Pinter Pauses.   I bet they had to count to themselves offstage in order to not go on too fast.   Now I have to read the script.  Oh there it is---been on my shelf for about a year.

Saw Godspell and another show about the Holocaust.    One more week and then DEAD MAN WALKING starts to rehearsing.   Really excited, saw an interview with Tim Robbins last night.  He's my age.  Ugh.  Done a few more things than me, but can't worry about it.    

Grandpa - Church's Chicken - Commercial Ad

My first commercial.  Ice has been broken

How to Warm up in Public

When I see posts like this I really love to pass them on to fellow actors.  This one is by a vocal coach Andrew Byrne in New York that shows you how to warm up in public.  Really simple but great.

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Scene From BIG HEAT filmed for University of Chicago

I was asked to film a scene from the Film Noir Classic  BIG SLEEP for a group of students from University of Chicago.  It was hosted by DePaul Film School where they recreated the set, which was a big surprise for me and fellow actor Guy Wicke. It was a lot of fun and I played the Lieutenant who scolds Glen Ford's character for hassling a cop's widow.

DAMN YANKEES start up for me at Light Opera Works

My First Big Boy musical experience started last night with the Read-Thru of the Light Opera Work's DAMN YANKEES.  We have already had one rehearsal for music.  And I know not all the music got covered so last night a lot of people had to sing solely on their own reviewing of the music before the read-thru.  Not bad for winging it on your own but that is our job I guess.  But I am enjoying finally doing a musical where everybody can dance, sing and act not matter what gender.  There are more guys in this show than women, which is a first for me having done many musicals at CenterStage in Lake Forest.

Preparing songs drives me crazy but finally found a guy online that will do my rehearsal tracks for me and is really economical.  Manhattan Vocal Coach Stephen Purdy.   Really nice to have an accompanist experience before walking into the room.

June 7-15, 2014

Cahn Auditorium
600 Emerson, Evanston, IL