Eric Evans Gets Unstuck from the Flagpole Just Long Enough to Lick "The Questionnaire"

Posted by Billy Christopher Maupin

Eric Evans, who will be seen in Theatre IV's production of A Christmas Story opening this Friday as Schwartz...you know...the kid that gets his tongue stuck to the flagpole?...answers "The Questionnaire." You may have seen Eric recently in The Member of the Wedding in Barksdale Theatre's Signature Season or in 365 Days/365 Plays at Barksdale Theatre. An incredibly astute and intelligent actor and fantastic to work with, be sure to catch Eric in A Christmas Story at the historic Empire Theatre November 30 - December 23.

On to the questions! (and the answers...)

1. What is your favorite word?

Serendipity

2. What is your least favorite word?

Hate

3. What turns you on [creatively, spiritually or emotionally]?

Creatively. Doing a play, or what not with acting.

4. What turns you off?
Out of the three? Spiritually, nothing wrong with it, just out of the three.

5. What sound or noise do you love?
The sound of a typewriter

6. What sound or noise do you hate?
An alarm clock

7. What is your favorite curse word?
S*** or B*** (honesty people)

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
Novelist

9. What profession would you not like to do?
Electrician

10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
"Finally, he's arrived!" something like that

Oh, yes. Those are Bernard Pivot's questions that James Lipton asks each guest on Inside the Actor's Studio! Doesn't every theatre person dream ofbeing asked these?!!!
Abso-frekin-lutly...Was that a rhetorical question?

A Christmas Story, Adapted by Philip Grecian runs November 30 - December 23 at the historic Empire Theatre. Get your tickets today! 344-8040

Ralphie's Dad Drives Away with the Pivot/Lipton Questionnaire

Posted by Billy Christopher Maupin


Theatre IV's stage production of the motion picture classic, A Christmas Story, opens on November 30. Featured in this incredibly exciting production is "Old Man," Ralphie's dad, portrayed by Gordon Bass, recently seen as the Wizard in Theatre IV's The Wizard of Oz. "Ralphie's Dad" has shared with me his answers to the James Lipton questionnaire that he asks all of his guests on Inside the Actor's Studio.

So here goes:

1. What is your favorite word?
Simoniz
It's a brand of car wax. I just love polishing the hood of my car.

2. What is your least favorite word?
Clinker, like the clinkers that get hung in the furnace in the basement and I have to go down and extricate them.

3. What turns you on [creatively, spiritually or emotionally]?
A new furnace.

4. What turns you off?
Bumpuse Hounds...the neighbor's dogs. They attack me everytime I come to the house. And they only attack me. They don't bother anyone else.

5. What sound or noise do you love?
The smooth purr of an Oldsmobile engine.

6. What sound or noise do you hate?
The Bumpuse Hounds.

7. What is your favorite curse word?
Cushlamochree

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
Race car driver, I think.

9. What profession would you not like to do?
Dogcatcher

10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

"Cushlamochree!"

Come check out Ralphie's Dad and all your favorite characters in Theatre IV's live stage production of A Christmas Story playing November 30 - December 23 at the historic Empire Theatre!

Snowbell...errr...I mean Catherine Dudley answers "The Questionnaire"

Catherine Dudley, who is playing Snowbell (the cat), along with Doctor, Miss Swenson, Repairman, and others, in Theatre IV's upcoming production of Stuart Little, paws her way around the questionnaire that James Lipton asks his guests on Inside the Actor's Studio. Lipton's questionnaire is taken from Bernard Pivot's questionnaire that he used to ask his guests on Bouillon de Culture.

So here goes:

1. What is your favorite word?

Quintessential- it is so much fun to say, I can’t stand it. You can punch both words individually and it’s even more fun to say. “QUint- ESSSSSential!”

2. What is your least favorite word?

M-O-I-S-T- I even have to spell it it cringes me out so much! there is nothing more foul to me than that word! It literally makes my skin crawl!


3. What turns you on [creatively, spiritually or emotionally]?

Spiritually- a person who isn’t afraid to walk out what they believe

Emotionally- someone who truly listens- not a passifying listening, but truly listening!


4. What turns you off?

There are an unbelievable amount of things that turn me off!

Gratuitous cussing, coffee breath (even though I love coffee- all I ask is- just brush your teeth or gargle Listerine! Something, please!), arrogance, ignorance, lying, and mayonnaise!

5. What sound or noise do you love?

Unimpressive, I know, but the sound of a car driving over a metal bridge! I love that noise! I always turn my radio down when I get to one! Makes me smile!

But, really and truly- the sound of my nephews laughing and talking! There is nothing better in the world! Those sweet little, squeaky voices- precious!

6. What sound or noise do you hate?

Styrofoam! Not like the little packing peanuts- big sheets of Styrofoam! Breaking, crunching, tearing- doesn’t matter! That sound is worse than fingernails on a chalkboard!

7. What is your favorite curse word? (have it at it. I obviously won't post it for real, but in some approved somewhat censored fashion)

As mentioned before, I am not a cusser! (now, that’s not to say that the time I dropped boiling water on my foot that something didn’t come flying out! I am woman enough to admit that it did!) but as a general rule my cussing is fairly PG! I LOVE “dang judy!” and “shut your face!”

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?

I am actually finishing school now to become one- an American Sign Language interpreter! It stole my heart! It would be cool to be a glass blower though! They make some beautiful stuff!

9. What profession would you not like to do?

A mortician or a septic tank cleaner! (although I would go into ANY septic tank with Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs!)


10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

First and foremost, I believe heaven does exist and I hope and pray that I walk my faith well enough that God will say to me, “Well done good and faithful servant!” it’s a daily battle though!

--Catherine Dudley