I'm so glad to be part of this group! In real life I'm an actor in the Seattle area. Roles I've played include Mortimer in Arsenic & Old Lace, Felix in The Odd Couple, Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Elyot Chase in Private Lives, the "Adam" role in Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged, Sky Masteron in Guys & Dolls, Frank Butler in Annie Get Your Gun, Will Parker in Oklahoma!, Doody in Grease, Johnny Brown in The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Mordred in Camelot, Freddy Eynsford-Hill in My Fair Lady, Prof. Harold Hill in The Music Man, Dexter Haven in High Society, Billy Lawlor in 42nd Street, Max Detweiler in The Sound of Music, The Duke in Big River, Hero in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Eugene Fodor in Crazy For You, and Dromio of Ephesus in The Boys From Syracuse. I have also written the music & lyrics for The Five Ghosts of Ebenezer Scrooge, an original musical based on Dickens's A Christmas Carol.

I would like to see this group take on an RP dimension by "putting on plays". Taking public domain plays, like Shakespeare, members would design costumes (avatars), posters (graphics), and sets (homepages), and then "put on" a play, like A Midsummer Night's Dream (for example). The show would be cast - a member would audition with a well-written post. Then each post would be a block of dialogue from the show, in which each actor posts his/her own interpretation of how the scene would go, from that actor's point of view. (The idea is that each actor would post when he/she had a line coming up.)

As a basic framework, I see the concept manifesting as follows:

BROADWAY (RP board; thread list below)
- Behind the Footlights (performance posts)
- Backstage (the backstage drama, actors "out of character")
- Sardi's (where actors shmooze with directors & producers)
- The Green Room (actors who are not currently on stage)
- The Casting Couch (audition thread)

This is just one idea for a framework. We could also have an "On Tour" thread for another show running simultaneously. And we do not have to be restricted to existing shows. It would also be fun to come up with an original show, in improvisational RP fashion, using only a rough synopsis to work from. That would give actors more flexibility in the content. With the Shakespeare plays, the actor is limited by the lines and existing plot, but can still be creative in how the post is written, description of the character's emotion, action, the lighting, set design, audience reactions, etc.

And then there is the issue of time period. Considering that my persona is based on the vaudeville tradition of musical comedy, I'm partial to the Golden Age of Broadway/Hollywood - the 1930s. It's a great point in history - Walter Winchell, Mayor LaGuardia, the Depression, FDR, Churchill, Prohibition, the Algonquin Round Table, Orson Welles, Olivier, Noel Coward, Eugene O'Neill, Rodgers & Hart, Cole Porter... the list goes on.