How to become an established actor and musical theater "star" is the question, Emily asks John Cullum.
Cullum tells what happened to him, when he arrived in NYC with a letter of recommendation from the head of the drama department at the University of Tennessee.
Wow what memories. I bought ShowBusiness and a few other trade papers religiously and would spend a huge amount of time looking for anything that remotely looked promising.
I was the queen of auditions from the age of 3 through 18. LOL I had an agent as a kid so they sent me on a zillion auditions as well..but later on I did it on my own...Then I said...enough and studied interior design, which for me was a wise choice. ;-)
Had I had the talent of a John Cullum, maybe I might have gotten more work.
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HOW I GOT HERE
I'm a writer, writing things that haven't brought me fame, but continue to involve me, inspire me to find an audience.
I started out as a modern dancer, contemporary, but balletic. I didn't want to be a swan, or a barefoot dancer. I wanted to dance to the music that thrilled me as a child, and made me want to be a dancer.
I began writing in the truck my first husband, Mark Ryder and I bought, in order to carry our set, props, and costumes for a long one-night-stands tour -- eighty-eighty performances in eighty-eight cities.
We were performing "Romeo and Juliet" nightly, but our marriage was breaking up. Every day while our stage manager drove us two-hundred miles or so to the next booking, I'd type a detailed description of last night -- what we did well, what we argued about, and a travelogue about the town, and comments from the people at the nightly party.
Recovering from the trip and the divorce, I sent my "car book" to a friend who said -- "Em, it's great, but ..." And that became rewrites, and another book. Then, my marriage to actor John Cullum, and then a play that got produced, and another book, big hopes because a famous agent loved it. The title and concept changed five times -- now it's been published, finally, as "Somebody, Woman of the Century." You can buy it, or read about it and my other five novels on Emily Frankel.com
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Wow what memories. I bought ShowBusiness and a few other trade papers religiously and would spend a huge amount of time looking for anything that remotely looked promising.
I was the queen of auditions from the age of 3 through 18. LOL I had an agent as a kid so they sent me on a zillion auditions as well..but later on I did it on my own...Then I said...enough and studied interior design, which for me was a wise choice. ;-)
Had I had the talent of a John Cullum, maybe I might have gotten more work.
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