Al & Mir

Year of Birth: 1962

 

Height: 5'11"

 

Weight: 240

  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 with a little Lithuanian and Polish (So, where did the name "Perkins" come from? Two words: Ellis Island)

Passions:

Theatre (duh)

Symphonic Bands

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

 

Lost in London

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., Big Bang Theory, South Park

NOTHING about lawyers, doctors or cops

 

Al in Central Park

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

Mnozil Brass

Brian Setzer

DaVinci's Notebook

Weird Al Yankovic

 

Al soloing with the Doctors' Orchestra

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

"Symphony No. 3" - James Barnes

"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).

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."

 

Al soloing with the Million Dollar Band at the University of Alabama Homecoming, 1983

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"

 

Al at the 1984 Olympics

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