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TC

Raconteur, Bon Vivant, Confidant.

About Me

Theater background in an easily digestible format:
Started performing improv with Renegade Duck (1992-95).
Former co-director of TheaterSports at ImprovBoston (2005) in addition to being a past (1995-99) cast member.
Founding member of Musical Improv Company (1995-?), specializing in improvised Broadway-style musical theater, as seen at the 2003 Chicago Improv Festival .
Proud Gold Dust Orphan .
Librettist & lyricist for "What the Dickens?!?", the 2006 ImprovBoston Holiday Spectacular. (Check out the clips- click on View My Videos!)
Lyricist for the ImprovBoston show "An Evening with Ladley & Craig" (Clips to come!)

My Interests

Improv, theater, comedy, trivia, musical theater, religion, politics. Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom.

I'd like to meet:

Strange visitors from other planets with powers far beyond those of mortal men. The man with the funny hat. All the crowned heads of Europe. Five guys named Moe. Four lads who shook the world. Pretty women, out walking with gorillas down my street.

Music:

Yes.
By which I mean "Yes, I listen to a wide variety of music but listing all of the various & sundry artists here would take up a lot of space." I do not mean that my favorite band is Yes. Because it isn't. Also, please listen to any of my friends' bands because, really, it's the sociable thing to do.

Movies:

If Terry Gilliam directed it chances are I love it. All of Christopher Guest's films, including "The Big Picture" which nobody appears to have heard of but which you really should see. The Muppet Movie. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (the Wilder one, not the Depp one.) How much time have you got?

Television:

Battlestar Galactica. Heroes. 30 Rock. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. That's about all that's on my Tivo.

Books:

Nearly anything by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. The Tales of the City books by Armistead Maupin. Potter, natch. Brave New World, 1984, It Can't Happen Here and general dystopia.

Heroes:

“My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been here.” - Jim Henson

"God damn it, you've got to be kind." - Kurt Vonnegut, RIP

"Everybody has the mania to do the polka from Pennsylvania." - Jimmy Sturr and his Orchestra

My Blog

"Pomposity is a virtue"

Sometime after I graduated high school there was formed a club formed there called "The Pomposity Club"-- I think that was it-- with the motto "Pomposity is a virtue." My wife will remember better tha...
Posted by TC on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:15:00 PST

An Open Letter to CBS Television

Hi! We haven't met, but I understand that you're looking for a new host for The Price Is Right now that Bob Barker has taped his final show and is going back to his career as an international playboy,...
Posted by TC on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:12:00 PST

Thought for the Day

I'm listening to Styx.It's like Air Supply for people with mullets. ...
Posted by TC on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:43:00 PST

Apropos of nothing...

My oldest son is intensely interested in American history. He's reading a book about the Declaration of Independence. So I read some of it. And I think "Divine Providence" would make a great drag name...
Posted by TC on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:19:00 PST

11 Strange Things About Me

I am no fan of the meme post, but improv goddess Jill Bernard tagged me, so I feel touched by the hand of God... er, goddess. 1) I spent several of my teenage years seriously considering the priesthoo...
Posted by TC on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 06:51:00 PST

At midnight

A year ago tonight, I was tired. Tonight, I'm tired. Very different reasons.A year ago tonight was only a few days home from my hospital sojourn, all the happy times detailed here, where every stair s...
Posted by TC on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 02:04:00 PST

What the Dickens?!? THIS WEEK!

We're almost ready to open! Rehearsal tonight with the full band, dress rehearsal tomorrow night, open dress rehearsal on Wednesday night, and we open on Thursday! Here's the full scoop:Charles Dicken...
Posted by TC on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:12:00 PST

Away in a Meatcase

Away in a Meatcase When we think of the story of Christmas-- the couple who can't find room at the inn, who are relegated to the manger where the animals lay, the baby born under the star that lea...
Posted by TC on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:31:00 PST

On Same-Sex Marriage

I'm off to the State House this morning, due to today's Constitutional Convention where- in theory anyway- the legislators will take the first of two votes on whether to place a ballot question that w...
Posted by TC on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 06:57:00 PST

When the past comes back to sing Hello

Two emails today made me 17 again. One was via Classmates, from the person who's apparently in charge of running my 20th high school reunion which is.. uh... next year. (Better get cracking on making ...
Posted by TC on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:51:00 PST