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Al & Mir |
- Year of Birth: 1962
- Height: 5'11"
- Weight: 240
- Passions:
- Theatre (duh)
- British Brass Bands
Drum Corps - Living in New York City
- Gadgets and Technology
- B-films
- Japanese Monster Movies
- The Tube
- Netsurfing
Quisp & Quake - Collecting Premium Watches
- Cereal Boxes and Premiums
- Walt Disney World
- Ice Cream (any time, any day)
- Coffee - black
- Air Conditioning
- ... and, last but DEFINITELY not least ... my wife, Miriam
- Past Jobs (no particular order):
- High School Band Director
- Movie Theater Usher
- Movie Theater Manager
- Video Store Manager
- Sandwich Maker
- Telemarketer
- Screen Printer
- Secretary
- Broadcast Traffic Coordinator
- Word Processing Operator
- Computer Trainer/Troubleshooter
- Favorite TV Shows:
- Off the air: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, MST3K
On the air: Robot Chicken, The Venture Bros., Two and a Half Men, Monk - NOTHING about lawyers, doctors or cops
- Favorite Movies:
- A Thousand Clowns
- Amadeus
- The Little Shop of Horrors (the original Roger Corman version)
- Plan 9 From Outer Space
- Big
- Barton Fink
- Edward Scissorhands
The Blues Brothers - Favorite Music Groups/Singers:
- Oingo Boingo
- Tom Waits
- Tycoon Dog
- Green Day
- Richard Cheese
- Pink Floyd
- Randy Newman
- Louis Prima
- Spike Jones
- Joe Jackson
- Brian Setzer
- DaVinci's Notebook
- Eytan Mirsky
- Weird Al Yankovic
- Yorkshire Building Society
- Favorite Classical Pieces:
- "The Planets" - Gustav Holst
- "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" - Richard Strauss
- "Symphony in B-flat for Band" - Paul Hindemith
- "Symphony No. 2" - Howard Hanson
- "Russian Christmas Music" - Alfred Reed
- "Symphonic Movement" - Vaclav Nelhybel
- Coolest Things I've Ever Done:
- Playing in the band at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
- Flying out to Reno to see "Nobody Knows I'm a Dog", then hopping down to Pasadena to see "Standard Deviation."
- Soloing with the Million Dollar Band (see photo).
- The Data Kangaroo sessions.
- Being a guest speaker at NYU to a Graduate class who was studying one of my plays.
- Having Ron Palillo and Mary Testa perform a staged reading of "F2F."
- Favorite Playwrights:
- Arthur Miller
- Howard Korder
- Ken Ludwig
- August Wilson
- David Hirson
- Steven Stuart
- Most Life-Changing Theatre Experiences:
- The revival of "An Inspector Calls."
- The Lincoln Center production of "Abe Lincoln in Illinois."
- The Circle in the Square production of "Search and Destroy."
- "Blast"
- Favorite Broadway Musicals:
- Once On This Island
- Into the Woods
- Sweeney Todd
- Urinetown
- Avenue Q
- Blast
- The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
- Quotables:
- "Only in this country can we take an invaluable tool like the Internet and reduce it to a smiley button." Nobody Knows I'm a Dog
- "While some people are out changin' the world, we're providin' you with one to change." Standard Deviation
- "Meeting people in New York is a contradiction of terms." Wedded Blitz
- "Anybody who says they love their job is lying." Rubber Duckies in a Row
Eyes: Hazel
Hair: Was chestnut brown, now it's just salt-and-pepper
Last Time My Chin Saw Daylight: I'm guessing around 1989
Nationality: Ukrainian (So, where did the name "Perkins" come from? Two words: Ellis Island)
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