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*Content Warning* – I use a derogatory racial term in relating an experience that happened during this period in my life. I am quoting someone else in doing so, but the term is there regardless. If you find that kind of thing overly offensive you may wish to pass this episode up.

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• The opening track is “Love Shack” by the B-52′s from their album Cosmic Thing.
• I shaved nearly 2 minutes off of this podcast by cutting out all the “umms”, “uuuhs”, “you knows” and pointless stammers. You’re welcome.
• If you’re curious about the construction that I did you can see all the progress pictures here.
• I don’t wear tighty whities any more. Just FYI.
• Here’s a little more info about Terrence Mann. Apparently he hasn’t updated his own web site since 2003.
• The closing song is “I Won’t Back Down” by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from their album Full Moon Fever.

No way! A podcast! This is my shocked face!

Wait, what?

A podcast?!

Say it isn’t so!!

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• I guess Cameron Jackson ended up doing pretty well for himself. He’s currently the Director of the Theater Department and Florida State University.
• The opening music for the show was “Girls, Girls, Girls” by Motley Crüe.
• John Cecil is currently living in New York City and is making a living a a writer and director. Check out his film Hell’s Gate.
• The closing song is, as always, “After All These Years” from Pericles: The Musical.

Freshmen class pictures for the Artistically Talented Program

I’m back! I do apologize for the very long delay before this show came out, but as predicted the production schedule for Dead Man’s Cell Phone pretty much killed any time I had to produce a new episode. I tried something new this episode and just told the stories as they came to me instead of writing them down in advance (probably the main reason why the episode is 41 minutes long). I’d really appreciate some feedback on how you all felt it went.

Show notes are, as always, behind the cut.

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• The opening song for this episode is “Don’t You Forget About Me” by Simple Minds, from the soundtrack to The Breakfast Club
• The closing song is, as always, “After All These Years” by Joe Popp, from the soundtrack to Pericles: The Musical.

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The podcast this week moves into my eighth grade year at Tyrone Middle School and revolves around our production of Oklahoma! Full show notes are, as always, behind the cut.

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• The opening music for this episode is Wolverine Hugh Jackman from a recent production of Oklahoma! You can find video of the clip along with links to other numbers from that show here.
• The bed music is “Down in the Little Woods” by Bill Tucker and was downloaded from MusicAlley.com -  Down in the Little Woods
• You can find out more about the amazing work that Mrs. Clark did at Tyrone Middle School by reading this article.
• No, the voice at the end singing “Lonely Room” does not belong to me. I stumbled across that one yesterday while I was poking around on YouTube. The voice belongs to Matthew Patrick, and he’s the type of guy I was referring to in my bit about leading men vs. character actors. One of his comments on the post is about how he wishes he could play guys like Jud but that he doesn’t have the right look.

Episode 3 covers my early years at Tyrone Middle School and my first “big” role in My Fair Lady at Tyrone Middle School.

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• The opening music of this episode is “Ascot Opening Day” from My Fair Lady.
• The bed music for this episode is “Chopin Is Dead” by Adhesion and is available at MusicAlley
• Bocce is a pretty fun game. Especially when drinking Mimosas.
• Jobsite is the theater group I’m currently an ensemble member of. You’ll hear a lot more about them in later shows.
• My video performance of “I’ve Grown Accustomed To Her Face” can be found here.
• The closing music is “After All These Years” from Pericles : The Musical. Pericles is playing at the HERE Art Center in New York City from April 15th to April 17th, 2010.
• Yes, I know I was flat on a few notes when I was singing at the end. It was late, I was singing a capella, and I hadn’t warmed up. Still sound better than I did when I was 11.

Episode 2 takes a brief diversion away from actual theater stories to tell the tale of how I discovered Dungeons and Dragons and the world of role-playing games.

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• The opening music for this week’s episode is “Salty Dog” from the album Swagger by Flogging Molly.
• “Red Box” is the term most often used to reference the original basic set of Dungeons and Dragons, and is a reference to..umm…the fact that the box was red.
• The background music for this episode is “Pipe Dreams” by Celtic Fusion.
• If you don’t know who He-Man and the Masters of the Universe are I feel sorry for you that there is so much awesome missing in your life.
• Playing D&D With Porn Stars really is one of the best Dungeons and Dragons blogs I’ve stumbled across. It also has porn stars. What more could you ask for?
• Krystalle is my other half. She kicks ass.
• This is the Succubus illustration.
• Crossbows and Catapults is still around, amazingly enough.
• Jack Chick is this crazy religious guy that puts out cartoon books about how you’re going to hell. He wrote one specifically about the evils of Dungeons and Dragons called “Dark Dungeons“
• The musical interlude “He’s Going To Tell” is from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. If you didn’t know that OR who He-Man was…man…I’m so sorry.
• The closing music for the episode was “Goodbye, Stranger” by Supertramp that I snagged from the Magnolia soundtrack.

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Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Cast In Order Of Appearance, a (hopefully) bi-weekly podcast chronicling the theatrical history of Michael C. McGreevy. Episode 1 includes an introduction of the show and why I’m doing it, along with the story of the first time I ever sit foot on a stage in a speaking role.

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• The opening bumper music is from the song Ball and Chain by Social Distortion
• John Cecil is a writer, director and producer who now lives in New York City. He has several films to his name along with a pretty spiffy web series that you can check out over at goodgame.com
• If you haven’t seen Marathon Man I highly suggest you check it out.  “Is it safe?”
• Wil Wheaton is pretty much one of my celebrity crushes right now and has really motivated me to do something more with my art. Check out his blog, follow him on Twitter, and make sure you listen to Memories of the Futurecast and Radio Free Burrito.
• Pardon Me, Is This Planet Taken? is a really real show that was written by author John Jakes (probably best known as being the author of the North and South series). It appears to be out of print and hasn’t been produced anywhere since the  early1980′s, so I’m gonna go out on a limb and assume it’s probably as bad as the title implies.
• The show closed with a brief clip of the song “After All These Years” from Pericles : Prince of Tires by Joe Popp

The Cast In Order Of Appearance by Michael C. McGreevy is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.