12/13/2023 0 Comments Fully committed actor![]() ![]() ![]() Amid all of this, Sam is hoping for a call back from the Lincoln Center for a part in Twelfth Night. Sam also has to deal with his internal superiors including the head chef and a maitre 'd. He's answering the phones and trying to get home for Christmas and he's a struggling actor and slowly realizing that he's not going to get home for Christmas."Īnd the demands don't just come from members of the public wanting a table at this trendy restaurant. And everyone throwing their weight around and leveraging themselves to get this coveted reservation. "You can imagine the clientele of a four-star restaurant trying to get a reservation close to Christmas. Imagine all this splendor and grandeur of this fancy restaurant upstairs, well I'm down in the basement taking reservations," Godwin says. In Fully Committed, Godwin, who has already made a name for himself as a versatile character actor at the Alley (the clown in The Winter's Tale, Hector McQueen in Murder on the Orient Express and King Louis XIII in The Three Musketeers to name just a few) gets to really stretch as he plays more than 40 characters as he tries to make everyone happy while hoping to get a part in a play and somehow get home to Ohio and his recently widowed father in time for Christmas. although he never got the chance to go on, says Godwin. And historical footnote here, for several years Godwin was the cover for Waite and was fitted for his own elf costume. And Waite certainly took on other characterizations, most notably his boss at Macy's. The parallels to Santaland Diaries are clear in that both main characters are would-be actors, supplementing their incomes with side jobs. Alley Company member Dylan Godwin is about to make his debut in playwright Becky Mode's Fully Committed, the one actor, on-act story of Sam Callahan, a would-be actor handling the reservations desk at a New York City restaurant at the height of the holiday season. That alternative programming got kind of lost in the wake of the Hurricane Harvey flooding devastation but this year the Alley decided to get back on board with a new Neuhaus stage offering. And for several years that alternative was The Santaland Diaries with Alley Theatre company's Todd Waite the star of the one-man show. For several years, the Alley Theatre had alternative programming in its downstairs theater paired with the showings upstairs of A Christmas Carol. ![]()
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