Almostgotit.com » audition http://www.almostgotit.com So, kids are mostly raised & I've just gone back to work... Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:59:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Mikael the Mime http://www.almostgotit.com/2008/07/29/mikael-the-mime/ http://www.almostgotit.com/2008/07/29/mikael-the-mime/#comments Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:44:07 +0000 almostgotit http://www.almostgotit.com/2008/07/29/mikael-the-mime/ Mikael the mimeMikael Rudolph is a college buddy of mine. That was back in the stone age, but even then he was a fabulous mime. Come to think of it, that’s also probably when he got so good at taming rocks — but more about that in a minute.

Mikael is also a cancer survivor, having had a fairly miraculous cure of a tumor that appeared in a rather undignified location, and as a result is currently writing a play called (ahem) Cancer, My Ass. 

You may not have heard of Mikael, but I bet you’ve heard of the world’s most famous mime,Marcel Marceau. Marceau once said of Mikael that  ”In this style… he is a master. Absolutely. It could not have been done any better.”

I KNOW.  Wow, right? 

But mimes don’t get no respect, and Mikael wanted me to share what he CLAIMS to be a possibly-fictional tale of his disastrous journey to Chicago to audition for an “America’s Got Talent” casting director. 

REJECTION. Oh, if only he had bouncing breasts, was married to someone who bites the heads off of live bats, or had apprenticed with Donald Trump. 

But here: judge for yourself, and don’t miss the pet rock.

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