INSIDE ADLR with CARL RAMSEY

Inside Artes de la Rosa’s
KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
with Carl E. Ramsey, Jr.

Today we go Inside ADLR's KISS OF THE SPIDERWOMAN, with singer, dancer, and all around great guy, Carl E. Ramsey Jr.

• Born & Raised: Colorado City, TX/Greenville, SC
• Education: A.A. Western Texas College, B.A. Texas Wesleyan University
• Zodiac Sign: Libra
• Audition Song: Beethoven Day (You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown).
• Audition Monologue: Giovanni from We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!
• First Play/Musical You Ever Saw: The Wizard of Oz
• Must See TV Show: True Blood
• Why you work in theatre: To change and inspire people the way theatre has changed and inspired me.
• First Role: the cow who jumped over the moon (a preschool play).
• Favorite Play: Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac
• Pop Culture Guilty Pleasure: Watching the Bravo channel.
• First Stage Kiss: A scene from Chekhov’s The Seagull.
• Pre Show Rituals: Breathing and praying.
• Special Skills: Playing piano and sewing.
• Any Theatre Superstitions: I always try to be on my best behavior, lest karma has her way during a performance.
• Worst Costume Ever: A bed sheet.
• Favorite Post Show Meal: Carbohydrates! Pizza, pasta, doughnuts…you name it!
• Best thing about Fort Worth & the North Side: Rose Marine Theatre!
• If you could go back in time and catch any Broadway show, what would it be? I would love to watch any show starring Bernadette Peters.
• Broadway or screen star of the past you would most love to have performed with: Joan Crawford, please.
• Some favorite plays/musicals: Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, Shakespeare’s Henry 1V (parts 1 and 2), Into the Woods, Company, and Wicked.
• The one performance – attended - that you will never forget: The original cast of Wicked on Broadway.
• Music that makes you cry, any genre: some forms of vintage country.
• Most played song on your iPod: Another Winter in a Summer Town (Grey Gardens)
• MAC or PC?: PC for now, but I’m bound to convert soon!
• Most-visited websites: Facebook.
• Last book you read: Angela’s Ashes, by Frank McCourt
• Last good show you saw: Pillowman, by Martin McDonagh
• Performer you would drop everything to go see: Did I mention Bernadette already?
• First CD/Tape/LP you owned: Reba McEntire cassette tape.
• Worst job you ever had: moving washing machines and dryers for minimum wage.
• Who would play you in the movie? Ryan Phillippe, or so I’ve been told.
• Leading man role you've been dying to play: Corny Collins, from Hairspray
• Leading lady role you wish you could play: Mama Rose, from Gypsy
• Three things you can't live without: My loved ones, my faith, and the honey butter chicken biscuit from Whataburger.
• Something about you that surprises people: People are surprised at how sociable I am once they get to know me. I usually come off as shy in the beginning.
• Career you would want if not a performer: Research biologist, or science teacher.
• "I'll never understand why…" ... I’ll never understand why there is intolerance in the world. We must all strive to walk in our neighbors shoes; that way, when we are tempted to become intolerant, we will only be mocking ourselves.