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[barrydukeproductions]

I thought I lost this picture, until this week, when my mom was digging through a stack of photos, for my Uncle Brad's funeral. This was the Christmas Carol production with Pleasanton Civic Arts, Fall 2004, at the Amador Theater, when I played Jacob Marely. As an actor, at Age 19, this was huge for me. I was the oldest teen in the cast, not originally cast as Jacob Marley, just a character in the background here and there. All the adult roles were cast with adults above age 25. The Original Marely dipped out with in the first 2 weeks of rehearsal, and the director approached me and asked me to be Marley. The best part of our first rehearsal for the Scrooge and Marely scene, as I was playing Marley all foreboding and low tone ghostly, my director stopped the rehearsal, and gave me the best direction any director ever gave me... "Barry, I want you to take all the Darth Vader you are putting into Marely, and be the Emperor, with Herman Munster's Laugh." And so, my sinister, heckling version of Marely was born, and I finally understood how to act, and play a character, that was something completely different than myself, and how it helped me grow as an actor. #pleasanton #pleasantoncivicarts #amadortheather #avhs #achristmascarol #jacobmarley (at Pleasanton, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnc_w_VvmIA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=