My Little Cookie…Bumstead, that is.
To pretend this post has to do with anything other than a proud papa fawning over his child’s accomplishment would be foolish. Seems the Dave Warren Players, headed by Gary Yoggy, needed an actress to play the role of Cookie in the Blondie performance Saturday morning. Derek Tague approached me and asked if Katie would be interested…since I refuse to either encourage or discourage her from performing (this is, after all, my hobby, so it would be wrong to force it upon anyone else; others with children have strongly encouraged me to push her, but that’s just not my style), I suggested he ask her directly and I would cheerfully support any decision she made. She decided to perform the role, and so made her acting debut at the 35th annual Friends of Old-Time Radio Convention.
In this short clip, my daughter is performing with my friends Bobb Lynes, Barbara Watkins in the title role, and Will Huchins in the role of Dagwood, one he portrayed briefly on television. (Will is probably best-known outside FOTR as Tom Sugarfoot Brewster and one of the stars of Hey, Landlord, although those of us who frequent the convention just know him as one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet.)
And to make a joke she will absolutely hate, when they said, “There are no small roles, only small actors,” I don’t think they meant short actors…still, seeing her stand between Bobb and Will makes me giggle.
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October 25th, 2010 at 5:50 pm
Very nice Katie!!!
Very nice indeed. Next time we get together I will help you with anything you’d like to know about acting on the radio OK.
I think you would be very good if you keep at it.
Be well and be good to your folks.
Michael C. Gwynne
October 30th, 2010 at 1:28 pm
[…] This week has been very very busy…today, I am building a graveyard and poker game between a skeleton and a severed hand (and it isn’t every day I can say something like that!), so there’s been no time to go through all the pics I’ve taken to get some posted. (Heck, I haven’t yet had the time to process all of the high-def digital video I shot. Ok, other than the Dave Warren Players’ version of Blondie, in which I have something of a vested interest. ;) […]
April 24th, 2011 at 1:29 am
[…] From the first convention I attended for one evening many many years ago, where I first met Arnold Moss who’s voice hadn’t changed a bit, and tremblingly shook the hand of Carlton E. Morse whose I Love a Mystery was the “holy grail” for me and most of the rest of the hobby, to last year’s convention where my daughter performed with Will Huchins and made this old curmudgeon weep with pride, the FOTR Convention has given me priceless memories of people and events that are absolutely irreplaceable. I’ve had dinner with many folks OTR listeners hear frequently on their shows, have spent hours talking to folks like Lon Clark who became friends, Arthur Anderson who is still a great friend, and I even got to perform with Hal Stone, with whom I argued, laughed, teased, drank, and still miss. […]