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Fully committed actor10/13/2023 That’s the thing, though, about knowing the play so well, as I do now, and just being more established in my career. You take a deep breath and see if you can get through it. So what do you do?Ī It’s scary, I’ll tell you that. Q One challenge of being the only actor on stage: There’s no one to help you if you forget your lines. It was mostly people spilling things and me having to clean them up. In high school, I was a busboy at Broder’s. My older brother would say, “Go get me a Coke,” and I would.Ī Not really. I think it comes from being the youngest in the family. People ask him to do crap that he shouldn’t be having to do, and I’m kind of that way. Q Does it feel different, doing this show again at the Jungle?Ī Oh, well, he’s an actor, so I can relate to the struggle of that. And Jean-Claude is so dramatic about everything! And Bryce is just delightful - it’s a pleasure to play someone so happy. It’s fun to play the guy with power who is an idiot. The chef, especially, is this brash, broad fratboy and he’s supposed to be in charge of this place that people are fighting to get into, but he’s really a nimrod. I’d say it’s a three-way tie between the chef, Bryce (who is Klum’s assistant) and Jean-Claude, the maitre d’. Q Of the 40, who’s your favorite character to play?Ī Oh, gosh. Coercion, threats, bribes, histrionicsa cast of desperate callers will stop. This devastatingly funny one act follows a day in the life of Sam Peliczowski, an out-of-work actor who mans the red-hot reservation line at Manhattans number-one restaurant. Keepers - who lives in Brooklyn now but will be back next spring for a production of “The Flood” with Theatre de la Jeune Lune compadres Dominique Serrand and Steve Epps - is fully committed to the show, but he gave us a little time to answer a few questions about it. Fully Committed by Becky Mode (Jun 2000) Starring Mark Setlock - The Cherry Lane Theatre. Keepers, 30, also plays these characters. Keepers plays a reservation-taker at a swank Manhattan restaurant whose main job is to tell everyone who calls that there are no tables available, that the restaurant is “fully committed.” But he also has to deal with dozens of people, including a vile celebrity (in the original, it was Naomi Campbell, but she’s been model-morphed into Heidi Klum) and an out-of-control chef who considers his entrees works of art meant more to be admired than enjoyed. “Fully Committed,” a huge hit at the Jungle with Keepers eight years ago, features just one actor. There are 40 people in “Fully Committed,” the comedy that opens Friday at the Jungle Theater, and all of ’em are played by Nathan Keepers.
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