Join the Burt Reynolds Institute and Museum on Saturday July 28th at 2:00 pm for a "pirate" some of the events planned: Get your picture taken with Captain Jack; Treasure hunt with prizes for the kids; Lecture on Blackbeard's flagship the "Queen Anne's Revenge" by discoverer Mike Daniel.

Cost $10 for adults $5 for children under 12.

FLORIDA'S TURNPIKE OR I-95 TO INDIANTOWN ROAD, EAST TO U.S.HIGHWAY 1. We are on the NW corner or the north side at the base of the bridge.

100 North U.S. Hwy. 1, Jupiter, Florida 33477
561.743.9955
Fax: 561.743.9922

THE BURT REYNOLDS INSTITUTE AND MUSEUM SCHEDULE FOR JULY 2007


THIS SATURDAY THE BURT REYNOLDS AND FRIENDS MUSEUM WILL HOST A TRIBUTE TO CHARLES NELSON REILLY

As all of you know our dear friend Charles Nelson Reilly passed away on Friday May 25th after a long illness. Charles was one of the most caring and generous people we have had the honor of knowing. He is responsible for the largest donation ever made to the museum when he performed his one man show "Save it for the Stage" and donated all proceeds to the museum. He also conducted his "Master Acting Class" at the same time, with proceeds benefiting the museum as well. We are planning a celebration of Mr. Reilly's life at the museum on Saturday July 21st at 7 pm.
We apologize to anyone unable to attend because of prior commitment and hope to conduct another tribute to Charles in the future in hopes of accommodating everyone. If you are interested in participating in our future tribute please let us know what date and time is convenient. (SEE WRITE-UP BELOW)

"BLACKBEARD PIRATE FESTIVAL"

Join the Burt Reynolds Institute and Museum on Saturday July 28th at 2:00 pm for a "pirate" some of the events planned;
Get your picture taken with Captain Jack
Treasure hunt with prizes for the kids
Lecture on Blackbeard's flagship the "Queen Anne's Revenge" by discoverer Mike Daniel
Cost $10 for adults $5 for children under 12





CLASS SCHEDULE

July 18th Ralph Villani's Acting Class
July 21st Charles Nelson Reilly Tribute byob
July 22nd Marc Zatorsky's Improv Class
July 25th Ralph Villani's Acting Class
July 28th Blackbeard Festival
July 29th Marc Zatorsky's Improv Class



CHARLES NELSON REILLY TRIBUTE

After a long illness, our dear friend Charles Nelson Reilly passed away from complications with pneumonia at UCLA Medical Center on Friday, May 25th. Charles was one of the most talented, caring and generous people we have had the honor of knowing. He is survived by his longtime companion Patrick Hughes.

We are planning a celebration of Mr. Reilly's life at the Burt Reynolds and Friends Museum on Saturday July 21st at 7 pm. The event is open to the public and friends of Mr. Reilly's will have the opportunity to say something about a man so many of us had the greatest respect for.

Charles was one of Mr. Reynolds dearest friends and in a 1991 Times article Mr. Reynolds explained some of the limitations Charles faced in Hollywood.
"We have a thing in this town that if you are enormously witty and gregarious, you can't be very deep. There's something wrong with a society that says, 'You're the wit, but you're not the teacher.' People just haven't seen him in this arena," Reynolds said. Reilly was not only a Burt Reynolds Institute for Theatre Training (BRITT) master acting instructor and eminent scholar, he also acted in and/or directed as many as 31 productions at the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theater, A few of those plays included: "Death of a Salesman," starring Julie Harris and Vincent Gardenia; "Educating Rita," starring Annie Potts and Leonard Frye; and "The Music Man," with Jim Nabors and Florence Henderson.

Lisa Soland an award winning playwright and graduate of the Burt Reynolds Institute of Theater Training (BRITT) said of Charles, "He would teach through stories. It would be one story after the next, and you never got sick of hearing them. Theater is about human beings and how they function or don't function, and Charles embodied that. His soul is something they couldn't catch on film. The public didn't know this side of him. He was brilliant. The best director I have ever worked with."

Paul Linke a close friend and director of Mr. Reilly's final work Save it for the Stage which got its name from a quote his mother would taunt Charles with when he voiced one of his witticisms to her. The one man show recapped his life in warm, often hysterical and seemingly inexhaustible detail. His kind words for his friends included: Angie Dickinson was a great "broad"; Burt Reynolds was a "god"; and being summoned to Lucille Ball's house for drinks back in the day was an honor he didn't dare refuse.

Linke has developed Mr. Reilly's show into a film The Life of Reilly, that will be released in the near future said of Charles "it wasn't just Mr. Reilly's riotous yarns that garnered attention. His generosity also was remarkable. He had such a thing in his heart for people who were striving to make it."

His wit and charm made him a featured guest on the Dean Martin Show, The Steve Allen Show, Dinah and Friends and caused him to be invited on the "The Tonight Show" approximately 100 times. He was able to circle his name 38 times in the TV Guide listings for a single week.

Self described as an oddball kid from the Bronx he was self-dramatizing by nature, he knew the depth, intelligence and heart of his character, and he had no need to bluff.
He had a remarkable gift for connecting. He listened, the secret of all great actors. And he seemed to care about your answers and your life, the secret of all great teachers.

Born on January 13, 1931, in New York City Charles was the only child of the former Signe Elvera Nelson and Charles Joseph Reilly. His father designed outdoor advertising for Paramount Pictures and when Charles was young he had a nervous breakdown and was institutionalized, in part because his wife made him turn down an offer to go to work in California with Walt Disney. After that, Reilly and his mother moved to Hartford, Connecticut, to live with 10 dysfunctional relatives, all of whom spoke Swedish, in an apartment that had only cold water.

He began his show business career in Hartford and at the age of 9 he got the lead in the school play. His teacher told his mother that Charles was the only true actor she had ever personally known. When he was 12, he survived the infamous 1944 Hartford circus fire that killed more than 165 people. Traumatized by the tragedy it was the last time he would sit in a theater as an audience member.

By 18, he moved to New York and was soon studying with Uta Hagen and her husband, Herbert Berghof, at their acting school. Classmates included Jack Lemmon, Steve McQueen, Geraldine Page and Hal Holbrook. He credited Uta Hagen, with teaching him everything he knew about acting and all that he had achieved in his life, he owed to her. He always showed her the greatest respect and referred to her as Ms Hagen when he referenced her during his classes.

Within the theater community, Reilly was a figure of great affection and respect. He was not just a comedian but also an actor, director, teacher and advocate of the human wisdom that underlies theater. He had impeccable comic timing, honed by years of working in theater before moving out to Hollywood. He wielded his booming voice to demonstrate just how uproarious the missed obvious can be.

He made his Broadway acting debut as Mr. Henkle in Bye Bye Birdie. In 1962 Charles won a Tony Award and a New York Drama Critic's Award for Best Actor in a Musical playing conniving corporate climber Bud Frump in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. In 1962, he was nominated for another Tony for Best Actor in a Musical playing Cornelius Hackl opposite Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly, one of the biggest Broadway hits of the 1960s.

When he first came to California in 1968, he stepped off the plane and said of the 70-degree weather: "How long has this been going on?' He said he'd been cold his whole life up until then." He received an Emmy nomination in 1970 for his role in the sitcom, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, as Claymore Gregg, the put-upon nephew of deceased Captain Daniel Gregg (Edward Mulhare), who haunted the house bought by Mrs. Muir (Hope Lange).
In the 1990s, Reilly made a memorable recurring appearance as author Jose Chung on the hit TV show The X-Files and in 1998 he was nominated for an Emmy for Most Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series as Jose Chung in Millennium. In 1999 he was nominated for an Emmy for Most Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for playing Mr. Hathaway on the Drew Carey Show.

After his TV career had waned, he was in great demand as a director and acting coach. Stars as peerless as Julie Harris would repeatedly ask him to director her. Reilly also coached Liza Minnelli, Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin and Christine Lahti at his acting school in North Hollywood. "He's a wonderful actor but never gets enough chance to do it," Harris told The Times in 2000. "He's taught me a lot about theater. It's his insight into the personal idiosyncrasies of human beings. He's attuned to small details — the pieces of the puzzle that make up the whole picture."

He began to direct in 1967 and some of his greatest accomplishments were as a director. Charles directed the Death of a Salesman, starring Julie Harris and Vincent Gardenia, at the renowned Burt Reynolds Dinner Theater. Reilly was probably proudest of his direction of many highly acclaimed operas around the country working with Anna Moffo, Robert Merrill, Raymond Gibbs and friend Bernadette Peters. In 1976 he directed Julie Harris in her Emmy wining role in "The Belle of Amherst," the one-woman play based on the life of Emily Dickinson. Two decades later he directed Harris again, with Charles Durning in a revival of "The Gin Game," a show that earned him a Best Director Tony nomination. That same production earned Harris a nomination for Best Actress of 1997.

Following his death tributes to Charles and his work were posted in newspapers from coast to coast. These tributes just begin to hint at the genius of this exceptional person.
Hap Erstein, of the Palm Beach Post wrote about what it was like to be in the presence of Mr. Reilly "interviewing him is a surreal exercise, a nonstop, nonlinear tour through his fertile mind, a lot like getting caught in a Match Game lightning round. It is a swim through his stream of consciousness, laden with tangential vignettes on his life, career and colleagues, a Who's Who worth of anecdotes culled from a half-century in the theater."

Carol Saunders, of the Jupiter Courier stated "Reilly's final work, that brought him back to Jupiter was in March 2004, when he came to the Burt Reynolds Museum to teach a master class and to perform his highly acclaimed, one-person show, The Life of Reilly, Save it for the Stage at the Eissey Campus Theater of Palm Beach Community College in Palm Beach Gardens." Mike Daniel, director of the Burt Reynolds and Friends Museum added, "When Charles came back to Jupiter and preformed his One Man Show at PBCC and his Master Acting Class at the Museum, all proceeds benefited the museum. It was the largest donation ever made to the museum and like he had done so many times in the past, it demonstrated the devotion Charles had for Mr. Reynolds and to Jupiter.


BURT REYNOLDS MUSEUM ACTING WORKSHOP'S

The Burt Reynolds Institute's Acting/Improv workshop Marc Zatorsky's next class will be held on Sunday, July 22nd Class starts promptly at 5:00 and runs till 7:30.

(561)-389-4603 OR EMAIL UncleMarcLaughs@aol.com

Independent Film

I would like to give everyone a head's up about a casting call that is going to go out in the next week or so. The Burt Reynolds Museum is gearing up for production of it's first short Independent film. This project will be released to film festivals around the country. It is the first such project to be filmed in conjunction with the museum. The film will be produced by Mike Daniel and Marc Zatorsky. Auditions and most rehearsals will be held at the museum. More information will be released when the particulars are finalized.

The workshop provides a great opportunity for anyone who desires stage time and chance to perform in front of your peers to work on their monologues or audition pieces. It is also provides an opportunity to perform existing projects ( many of them written and directed by Marc) with other actors, perform improv games, stand-up routines, cold reads and much more. The workshop provides an encouraging outlet for first timers who have always been interested in acting, but never had an opportunity to perform solo on stage or with others. It also provides an outlet for the seasoned actor to continuously work on their craft.

THERE IS A $10 DONATION REQUIRED TO HELP PAY FOR THE LIGHTS.


RALPH VILLANI'S next Acting Class and Workshop will be held on Wednesday July 18th from 7 pm – 9:30 pm. Ralph's classes are held every week during this time period.

Ralph Villani is a director, producer, actor and musician. He has studied with the New Group Theatre, the Tribecca Drama Institute and HB Studios in New York City. As an acting teacher his focus is within the methods of Sanford Meisner and Stella Adler. He had served on the Board of Directors for Theatre Gym in New York City. He has been artistic director for Bravado Theatre Company.

Class Outline
The acting class is held every Wednesday evening at 7:00PM. This class is for the beginner as well as the advanced actor. The class is about 2 ½ hours. The cost is $10.00 per class.

The best definition of acting that I know is: "Acting is behaving truthfully in imaginary circumstances." It would be wise to weigh this statement carefully before continuing, for it is more than a definition, it contains a fundamental philosophy regarding the art. The key word in this phrase is "truthfully." It is over this word and its possible alternate "effectively," that almost all disputes arise. This class is built on the foundation of this method.

Sanford Meisner and Stella Adler methods of acting.

1- Introduction to Acting
2- Justification: Who, What When, Where, And Why.
3- The Repetition Exercise
4- The Relationship
5- The Action Exercise
6- Understanding the Independent Activity
7- Improvisation / Objectives, Intentions, Being Specific, Timelocks, The Stakes.
8- Acting on Stage
9- Acting for Camera
10- Emotional Memory
11- Sense Memory
12- Fantasy Memory
13- Monologues
14- Auditioning


ANY QUESTIONS FEEL FREE TO CALL MARC @ (561)-389-4603 OR EMAIL UncleMarcLaughs@aol.com

FLORIDA'S TURNPIKE OR I-95 TO INDIANTOWN ROAD, EAST TO U.S.HIGHWAY 1. We are on the NW corner or the north side at the base of the bridge

THE BURT REYNOLDS INSTITUTE AND MUSEUM SCHEDULE FOR JULY 2007

CHARLES NELSON REILLY TRIBUTE

As all of you know our dear friend Charles Nelson Reilly passed away on Friday May 25th after a long illness. Charles was one of the most caring and generous people we have had the honor of knowing. He is responsible for the largest donation ever made to the museum when he performed his one man show "Save it for the Stage" and donated all proceeds to the museum. He also conducted his "Master Acting Class" at the same time, with proceeds benefiting the museum as well. We are planning a celebration of Mr. Reilly's life at the museum on Saturday July 21st at 7 pm. (SEE TRIBUTE WRITE-UP BELOW)

"BLACKBEARD PIRATE FESTIVAL"

Join the Burt Reynolds Institute and Museum on Saturday July 28th at 2:00 pm for a "pirate" some of the events planned;
Get your picture taken with Captain Jack
Treasure hunt with prizes for the kids
Lecture on Blackbeard's flagship the "Queen Anne's Revenge" by discoverer Mike Daniel
Cost $10 for adults $5 for children under 12


CLASS SCHEDULE

July 15th Marc Zatorsky's Improv Class
July 18th Ralph Villani's Acting Class
July 21st Charles Nelson Reilly Tribute byob
July 22nd Marc Zatorsky's Improv Class
July 25th Ralph Villani's Acting Class
July 28th Blackbeard Festival
July 29th Marc Zatorsky's Improv Class



CHARLES NELSON REILLY TRIBUTE

After a long illness, our dear friend Charles Nelson Reilly passed away from complications with pneumonia at UCLA Medical Center on Friday, May 25th. Charles was one of the most talented, caring and generous people we have had the honor of knowing. He is survived by his longtime companion Patrick Hughes.

We are planning a celebration of Mr. Reilly's life at the Burt Reynolds and Friends Museum on Saturday July 21st at 7 pm. The event is open to the public and friends of Mr. Reilly's will have the opportunity to say something about a man so many of us had the greatest respect for.

Charles was one of Mr. Reynolds dearest friends and in a 1991 Times article Mr. Reynolds explained some of the limitations Charles faced in Hollywood.
"We have a thing in this town that if you are enormously witty and gregarious, you can't be very deep. There's something wrong with a society that says, 'You're the wit, but you're not the teacher.' People just haven't seen him in this arena," Reynolds said. Reilly was not only a Burt Reynolds Institute for Theatre Training (BRITT) master acting instructor and eminent scholar, he also acted in and/or directed as many as 31 productions at the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theater, A few of those plays included: "Death of a Salesman," starring Julie Harris and Vincent Gardenia; "Educating Rita," starring Annie Potts and Leonard Frye; and "The Music Man," with Jim Nabors and Florence Henderson.

Lisa Soland an award winning playwright and graduate of the Burt Reynolds Institute of Theater Training (BRITT) said of Charles, "He would teach through stories. It would be one story after the next, and you never got sick of hearing them. Theater is about human beings and how they function or don't function, and Charles embodied that. His soul is something they couldn't catch on film. The public didn't know this side of him. He was brilliant. The best director I have ever worked with."

Paul Linke a close friend and director of Mr. Reilly's final work Save it for the Stage which got its name from a quote his mother would taunt Charles with when he voiced one of his witticisms to her. The one man show recapped his life in warm, often hysterical and seemingly inexhaustible detail. His kind words for his friends included: Angie Dickinson was a great "broad"; Burt Reynolds was a "god"; and being summoned to Lucille Ball's house for drinks back in the day was an honor he didn't dare refuse.

Linke has developed Mr. Reilly's show into a film The Life of Reilly, that will be released in the near future said of Charles "it wasn't just Mr. Reilly's riotous yarns that garnered attention. His generosity also was remarkable. He had such a thing in his heart for people who were striving to make it."

His wit and charm made him a featured guest on the Dean Martin Show, The Steve Allen Show, Dinah and Friends and caused him to be invited on the "The Tonight Show" approximately 100 times. He was able to circle his name 38 times in the TV Guide listings for a single week.

Self described as an oddball kid from the Bronx he was self-dramatizing by nature, he knew the depth, intelligence and heart of his character, and he had no need to bluff.
He had a remarkable gift for connecting. He listened, the secret of all great actors. And he seemed to care about your answers and your life, the secret of all great teachers.

Born on January 13, 1931, in New York City Charles was the only child of the former Signe Elvera Nelson and Charles Joseph Reilly. His father designed outdoor advertising for Paramount Pictures and when Charles was young he had a nervous breakdown and was institutionalized, in part because his wife made him turn down an offer to go to work in California with Walt Disney. After that, Reilly and his mother moved to Hartford, Connecticut, to live with 10 dysfunctional relatives, all of whom spoke Swedish, in an apartment that had only cold water.

He began his show business career in Hartford and at the age of 9 he got the lead in the school play. His teacher told his mother that Charles was the only true actor she had ever personally known. When he was 12, he survived the infamous 1944 Hartford circus fire that killed more than 165 people. Traumatized by the tragedy it was the last time he would sit in a theater as an audience member.

By 18, he moved to New York and was soon studying with Uta Hagen and her husband, Herbert Berghof, at their acting school. Classmates included Jack Lemmon, Steve McQueen, Geraldine Page and Hal Holbrook. He credited Uta Hagen, with teaching him everything he knew about acting and all that he had achieved in his life, he owed to her. He always showed her the greatest respect and referred to her as Ms Hagen when he referenced her during his classes.

Within the theater community, Reilly was a figure of great affection and respect. He was not just a comedian but also an actor, director, teacher and advocate of the human wisdom that underlies theater. He had impeccable comic timing, honed by years of working in theater before moving out to Hollywood. He wielded his booming voice to demonstrate just how uproarious the missed obvious can be.

He made his Broadway acting debut as Mr. Henkle in Bye Bye Birdie. In 1962 Charles won a Tony Award and a New York Drama Critic's Award for Best Actor in a Musical playing conniving corporate climber Bud Frump in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. In 1962, he was nominated for another Tony for Best Actor in a Musical playing Cornelius Hackl opposite Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly, one of the biggest Broadway hits of the 1960s.

When he first came to California in 1968, he stepped off the plane and said of the 70-degree weather: "How long has this been going on?' He said he'd been cold his whole life up until then." He received an Emmy nomination in 1970 for his role in the sitcom, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, as Claymore Gregg, the put-upon nephew of deceased Captain Daniel Gregg (Edward Mulhare), who haunted the house bought by Mrs. Muir (Hope Lange).
In the 1990s, Reilly made a memorable recurring appearance as author Jose Chung on the hit TV show The X-Files and in 1998 he was nominated for an Emmy for Most Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series as Jose Chung in Millennium. In 1999 he was nominated for an Emmy for Most Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for playing Mr. Hathaway on the Drew Carey Show.

After his TV career had waned, he was in great demand as a director and acting coach. Stars as peerless as Julie Harris would repeatedly ask him to director her. Reilly also coached Liza Minnelli, Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin and Christine Lahti at his acting school in North Hollywood. "He's a wonderful actor but never gets enough chance to do it," Harris told The Times in 2000. "He's taught me a lot about theater. It's his insight into the personal idiosyncrasies of human beings. He's attuned to small details — the pieces of the puzzle that make up the whole picture."

He began to direct in 1967 and some of his greatest accomplishments were as a director. Charles directed the Death of a Salesman, starring Julie Harris and Vincent Gardenia, at the renowned Burt Reynolds Dinner Theater. Reilly was probably proudest of his direction of many highly acclaimed operas around the country working with Anna Moffo, Robert Merrill, Raymond Gibbs and friend Bernadette Peters. In 1976 he directed Julie Harris in her Emmy wining role in "The Belle of Amherst," the one-woman play based on the life of Emily Dickinson. Two decades later he directed Harris again, with Charles Durning in a revival of "The Gin Game," a show that earned him a Best Director Tony nomination. That same production earned Harris a nomination for Best Actress of 1997.

Following his death tributes to Charles and his work were posted in newspapers from coast to coast. These tributes just begin to hint at the genius of this exceptional person.
Hap Erstein, of the Palm Beach Post wrote about what it was like to be in the presence of Mr. Reilly "interviewing him is a surreal exercise, a nonstop, nonlinear tour through his fertile mind, a lot like getting caught in a Match Game lightning round. It is a swim through his stream of consciousness, laden with tangential vignettes on his life, career and colleagues, a Who's Who worth of anecdotes culled from a half-century in the theater."

Carol Saunders, of the Jupiter Courier stated "Reilly's final work, that brought him back to Jupiter was in March 2004, when he came to the Burt Reynolds Museum to teach a master class and to perform his highly acclaimed, one-person show, The Life of Reilly, Save it for the Stage at the Eissey Campus Theater of Palm Beach Community College in Palm Beach Gardens." Mike Daniel, director of the Burt Reynolds and Friends Museum added, "When Charles came back to Jupiter and preformed his One Man Show at PBCC and his Master Acting Class at the Museum, all proceeds benefited the museum. It was the largest donation ever made to the museum and like he had done so many times in the past, it demonstrated the devotion Charles had for Mr. Reynolds and to Jupiter.


BURT REYNOLDS MUSEUM ACTING WORKSHOP'S

The Burt Reynolds Institute's Acting/Improv workshop Marc Zatorsky's next class will be held on Sunday, July 15th Class starts promptly at 5:00 and runs till 7:30.

(561)-389-4603 OR EMAIL UncleMarcLaughs@aol.com

Independent Film

I would like to give everyone a head's up about a casting call that is going to go out in the next week or so. The Burt Reynolds Museum is gearing up for production of it's first short Independent film. This project will be released to film festivals around the country. It is the first such project to be filmed in conjunction with the museum. The film will be produced by Mike Daniel and Marc Zatorsky. Auditions and most rehearsals will be held at the museum. More information will be released when the particulars are finalized.

The workshop provides a great opportunity for anyone who desires stage time and chance to perform in front of your peers to work on their monologues or audition pieces. It is also provides an opportunity to perform existing projects ( many of them written and directed by Marc) with other actors, perform improv games, stand-up routines, cold reads and much more. The workshop provides an encouraging outlet for first timers who have always been interested in acting, but never had an opportunity to perform solo on stage or with others. It also provides an outlet for the seasoned actor to continuously work on their craft.

THERE IS A $10 DONATION REQUIRED TO HELP PAY FOR THE LIGHTS.


RALPH VILLANI'S next Acting Class and Workshop will be held on Wednesday July 18th from 7 pm – 9:30 pm. Ralph's classes are held every week during this time period.

Ralph Villani is a director, producer, actor and musician. He has studied with the New Group Theatre, the Tribecca Drama Institute and HB Studios in New York City. As an acting teacher his focus is within the methods of Sanford Meisner and Stella Adler. He had served on the Board of Directors for Theatre Gym in New York City. He has been artistic director for Bravado Theatre Company.

Class Outline
The acting class is held every Wednesday evening at 7:00PM. This class is for the beginner as well as the advanced actor. The class is about 2 ½ hours. The cost is $10.00 per class.

The best definition of acting that I know is: "Acting is behaving truthfully in imaginary circumstances." It would be wise to weigh this statement carefully before continuing, for it is more than a definition, it contains a fundamental philosophy regarding the art. The key word in this phrase is "truthfully." It is over this word and its possible alternate "effectively," that almost all disputes arise. This class is built on the foundation of this method.

Sanford Meisner and Stella Adler methods of acting.

1- Introduction to Acting
2- Justification: Who, What When, Where, And Why.
3- The Repetition Exercise
4- The Relationship
5- The Action Exercise
6- Understanding the Independent Activity
7- Improvisation / Objectives, Intentions, Being Specific, Timelocks, The Stakes.
8- Acting on Stage
9- Acting for Camera
10- Emotional Memory
11- Sense Memory
12- Fantasy Memory
13- Monologues
14- Auditioning


ANY QUESTIONS FEEL FREE TO CALL MARC @ (561)-389-4603 OR EMAIL UncleMarcLaughs@aol.com

FLORIDA'S TURNPIKE OR I-95 TO INDIANTOWN ROAD, EAST TO U.S.HIGHWAY 1. We are on the NW corner or the north side at the base of the bridge

THE BURT REYNOLDS INSTITUTE AND MUSEUM SCHEDULE FOR JULY 2007

Mark Bosko an authority on film distribution will give a lecture on marketing your film at the museum on Sunday July 8th 12:00 – 2pm

Burt Reynolds Museum in Jupiter is fortunate to have the opportunity to host a lecture on the distribution and marketing of your independent film by Mark Steven Bosko.

The lecture will take place at the Burt Reynolds Institute and Museum between 12pm – 2pm on Sunday July 8th.

Mr. Bosko has articles appearing this month in MovieMaker and IndieSlate magazines and was interviewed by Crain's Chicago Business and the LA Times, and presented a workshop on distribution for the famous Southwest Alternative Media Project (SWAMP). He is the author of two books:

The Complete Independent Movie Marketing Handbook and
DVD On Demand, as well as a very popular online web series, "Top Ten Distribution Tips." http://www.customflix.com/Special/Support/HowTo/Distribution.jsp

In conjunction with working as an independent distribution representative and consultant, he regularly speaks at film festivals around the country, including SXSW, the Rhode Island International Film Festival, VSDA and Reel Inspiration, among others.

This lecture is being scheduled on short notice so if you could help us spread the word we would be most grateful.

Any questions please contact the museum at 561-743-9955

CHARLES NELSON REILLY TRIBUTE

As all of you know our dear friend Charles Nelson Reilly passed away on Friday May 25th after a long illness. Charles was one of the most caring and generous people we have had the honor of knowing. He is responsible for the largest donation ever made to the museum when he performed his one man show "Save it for the Stage" and donated all proceeds to the museum. He also conducted his "Master Acting Class" at the same time, with proceeds benefiting the museum as well. We are planning a celebration of Mr. Reilly's life at the museum on Saturday July 21st at 7 pm. (SEE TRIBUTE WRITE-UP BELOW)

"BLACKBEARD PIRATE FESTIVAL"

Join the Burt Reynolds Institute and Museum on Saturday July 28th at 2:00 pm for a "pirate extravaganza" some of the events planned;

Get your picture taken with Captain Jack

Treasure hunt with prizes for the kids

Lecture on Blackbeard's flagship the "Queen Anne's Revenge" by discoverer Mike Daniel

Cost $10 for adults $5 for children under 12

CLASS SCHEDULE

July 8TH Mark Bosko Lecture at noon
July 8th Marc Zatorsky's Improv Class
July 11th Ralph Villani's Acting Class
July 15th Marc Zatorsky's Improv Class
July 18th Ralph Villani's Acting Class
July 21st Charles Nelson Reilly Tribute
July 22nd Marc Zatorsky's Improv Class
July 25th Ralph Villani's Acting Class
July 28th Blackbeard the Pirate Festival
July 29th Marc Zatorsky's Improv Class

CHARLES NELSON REILLY TRIBUTE

After a long illness, our dear friend Charles Nelson Reilly passed away from complications with pneumonia at UCLA Medical Center on Friday, May 25th. Charles was one of the most talented, caring and generous people we have had the honor of knowing. He is survived by his longtime companion Patrick Hughes.

We are planning a celebration of Mr. Reilly's life at the Burt Reynolds and Friends Museum on Saturday July 21st at 7 pm. The event is open to the public and friends of Mr. Reilly's will have the opportunity to say something about a man so many of us had the greatest respect for.

Charles was one of Mr. Reynolds dearest friends and in a 1991 Times article Mr. Reynolds explained some of the limitations Charles faced in Hollywood.
"We have a thing in this town that if you are enormously witty and gregarious, you can't be very deep. There's something wrong with a society that says, 'You're the wit, but you're not the teacher.' People just haven't seen him in this arena," Reynolds said. Reilly was not only a Burt Reynolds Institute for Theatre Training (BRITT) master acting instructor and eminent scholar, he also acted in and/or directed as many as 31 productions at the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theater, A few of those plays included: "Death of a Salesman," starring Julie Harris and Vincent Gardenia; "Educating Rita," starring Annie Potts and Leonard Frye; and "The Music Man," with Jim Nabors and Florence Henderson.

Lisa Soland an award winning playwright and graduate of the Burt Reynolds Institute of Theater Training (BRITT) said of Charles, "He would teach through stories. It would be one story after the next, and you never got sick of hearing them. Theater is about human beings and how they function or don't function, and Charles embodied that. His soul is something they couldn't catch on film. The public didn't know this side of him. He was brilliant. The best director I have ever worked with."

Paul Linke a close friend and director of Mr. Reilly's final work Save it for the Stage which got its name from a quote his mother would taunt Charles with when he voiced one of his witticisms to her. The one man show recapped his life in warm, often hysterical and seemingly inexhaustible detail. His kind words for his friends included: Angie Dickinson was a great "broad"; Burt Reynolds was a "god"; and being summoned to Lucille Ball's house for drinks back in the day was an honor he didn't dare refuse.

Linke has developed Mr. Reilly's show into a film The Life of Reilly, that will be released in the near future said of Charles "it wasn't just Mr. Reilly's riotous yarns that garnered attention. His generosity also was remarkable. He had such a thing in his heart for people who were striving to make it."

His wit and charm made him a featured guest on the Dean Martin Show, The Steve Allen Show, Dinah and Friends and caused him to be invited on the "The Tonight Show" approximately 100 times. He was able to circle his name 38 times in the TV Guide listings for a single week.

Self described as an oddball kid from the Bronx he was self-dramatizing by nature, he knew the depth, intelligence and heart of his character, and he had no need to bluff.
He had a remarkable gift for connecting. He listened, the secret of all great actors. And he seemed to care about your answers and your life, the secret of all great teachers.

Born on January 13, 1931, in New York City Charles was the only child of the former Signe Elvera Nelson and Charles Joseph Reilly. His father designed outdoor advertising for Paramount Pictures and when Charles was young he had a nervous breakdown and was institutionalized, in part because his wife made him turn down an offer to go to work in California with Walt Disney. After that, Reilly and his mother moved to Hartford, Connecticut, to live with 10 dysfunctional relatives, all of whom spoke Swedish, in an apartment that had only cold water.

He began his show business career in Hartford and at the age of 9 he got the lead in the school play. His teacher told his mother that Charles was the only true actor she had ever personally known. When he was 12, he survived the infamous 1944 Hartford circus fire that killed more than 165 people. Traumatized by the tragedy it was the last time he would sit in a theater as an audience member.

By 18, he moved to New York and was soon studying with Uta Hagen and her husband, Herbert Berghof, at their acting school. Classmates included Jack Lemmon, Steve McQueen, Geraldine Page and Hal Holbrook. He credited Uta Hagen, with teaching him everything he knew about acting and all that he had achieved in his life, he owed to her. He always showed her the greatest respect and referred to her as Ms Hagen when he referenced her during his classes.

Within the theater community, Reilly was a figure of great affection and respect. He was not just a comedian but also an actor, director, teacher and advocate of the human wisdom that underlies theater. He had impeccable comic timing, honed by years of working in theater before moving out to Hollywood. He wielded his booming voice to demonstrate just how uproarious the missed obvious can be.

He made his Broadway acting debut as Mr. Henkle in Bye Bye Birdie. In 1962 Charles won a Tony Award and a New York Drama Critic's Award for Best Actor in a Musical playing conniving corporate climber Bud Frump in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. In 1962, he was nominated for another Tony for Best Actor in a Musical playing Cornelius Hackl opposite Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly, one of the biggest Broadway hits of the 1960s.

When he first came to California in 1968, he stepped off the plane and said of the 70-degree weather: "How long has this been going on?' He said he'd been cold his whole life up until then." He received an Emmy nomination in 1970 for his role in the sitcom, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, as Claymore Gregg, the put-upon nephew of deceased Captain Daniel Gregg (Edward Mulhare), who haunted the house bought by Mrs. Muir (Hope Lange).
In the 1990s, Reilly made a memorable recurring appearance as author Jose Chung on the hit TV show The X-Files and in 1998 he was nominated for an Emmy for Most Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series as Jose Chung in Millennium. In 1999 he was nominated for an Emmy for Most Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for playing Mr. Hathaway on the Drew Carey Show.

After his TV career had waned, he was in great demand as a director and acting coach. Stars as peerless as Julie Harris would repeatedly ask him to director her. Reilly also coached Liza Minnelli, Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin and Christine Lahti at his acting school in North Hollywood. "He's a wonderful actor but never gets enough chance to do it," Harris told The Times in 2000. "He's taught me a lot about theater. It's his insight into the personal idiosyncrasies of human beings. He's attuned to small details — the pieces of the puzzle that make up the whole picture."

He began to direct in 1967 and some of his greatest accomplishments were as a director. Charles directed the Death of a Salesman, starring Julie Harris and Vincent Gardenia, at the renowned Burt Reynolds Dinner Theater. Reilly was probably proudest of his direction of many highly acclaimed operas around the country working with Anna Moffo, Robert Merrill, Raymond Gibbs and friend Bernadette Peters. In 1976 he directed Julie Harris in her Emmy wining role in "The Belle of Amherst," the one-woman play based on the life of Emily Dickinson. Two decades later he directed Harris again, with Charles Durning in a revival of "The Gin Game," a show that earned him a Best Director Tony nomination. That same production earned Harris a nomination for Best Actress of 1997.

Following his death tributes to Charles and his work were posted in newspapers from coast to coast. These tributes just begin to hint at the genius of this exceptional person.
Hap Erstein, of the Palm Beach Post wrote about what it was like to be in the presence of Mr. Reilly "interviewing him is a surreal exercise, a nonstop, nonlinear tour through his fertile mind, a lot like getting caught in a Match Game lightning round. It is a swim through his stream of consciousness, laden with tangential vignettes on his life, career and colleagues, a Who's Who worth of anecdotes culled from a half-century in the theater."

Carol Saunders, of the Jupiter Courier stated "Reilly's final work, that brought him back to Jupiter was in March 2004, when he came to the Burt Reynolds Museum to teach a master class and to perform his highly acclaimed, one-person show, The Life of Reilly, Save it for the Stage at the Eissey Campus Theater of Palm Beach Community College in Palm Beach Gardens." Mike Daniel, director of the Burt Reynolds and Friends Museum added, "When Charles came back to Jupiter and preformed his One Man Show at PBCC and his Master Acting Class at the Museum, all proceeds benefited the museum. It was the largest donation ever made to the museum and like he had done so many times in the past, it demonstrated the devotion Charles had for Mr. Reynolds and to Jupiter.

BURT REYNOLDS MUSEUM ACTING WORKSHOP'S

The Burt Reynolds Institute's Acting/Improv workshop Marc Zatorsky's next class will be held on Sunday, July 8th Class starts promptly at 5:00 and runs till 7:30.

(561)-389-4603 OR EMAIL UncleMarcLaughs@aol.com

The workshop provides a great opportunity for anyone who desires stage time and chance to perform in front of your peers to work on their monologues or audition pieces. It is also provides an opportunity to perform existing projects ( many of them written and directed by Marc) with other actors, perform improv games, stand-up routines, cold reads and much more. The workshop provides an encouraging outlet for first timers who have always been interested in acting, but never had an opportunity to perform solo on stage or with others. It also provides an outlet for the seasoned actor to continuously work on their craft.

THERE IS A $10 DONATION REQUIRED TO HELP PAY FOR THE LIGHTS.

RALPH VILLANI'S next Acting Class and Workshop will be held on Wednesday July 11th from 7 pm – 9:30 pm. Ralph's classes are held every week during this time period.

Ralph Villani is a director, producer, actor and musician. He has studied with the New Group Theatre, the Tribecca Drama Institute and HB Studios in New York City. As an acting teacher his focus is within the methods of Sanford Meisner and Stella Adler. He had served on the Board of Directors for Theatre Gym in New York City. He has been artistic director for Bravado Theatre Company.

Class Outline
The acting class is held every Wednesday evening at 7:00PM. This class is for the beginner as well as the advanced actor. The class is about 2 ½ hours. The cost is $10.00 per class.

The best definition of acting that I know is: "Acting is behaving truthfully in imaginary circumstances." It would be wise to weigh this statement carefully before continuing, for it is more than a definition, it contains a fundamental philosophy regarding the art. The key word in this phrase is "truthfully." It is over this word and its possible alternate "effectively," that almost all disputes arise. This class is built on the foundation of this method.

Sanford Meisner and Stella Adler methods of acting.

1- Introduction to Acting
2- Justification: Who, What When, Where, And Why.
3- The Repetition Exercise
4- The Relationship
5- The Action Exercise
6- Understanding the Independent Activity
7- Improvisation / Objectives, Intentions, Being Specific, Timelocks, The Stakes.
8- Acting on Stage
9- Acting for Camera
10- Emotional Memory
11- Sense Memory
12- Fantasy Memory
13- Monologues
14- Auditioning

ANY QUESTIONS FEEL FREE TO CALL MARC @ (561)-389-4603 OR EMAIL UncleMarcLaughs@aol.com

FLORIDA'S TURNPIKE OR I-95 TO INDIANTOWN ROAD, EAST TO U.S.HIGHWAY 1. We are on the NW corner or the north side at the base of the bridge

THE BURT REYNOLDS INSTITUTE AND MUSEUM SCHEDULE FOR JUNE 2007

As all of you know our dear friend Charles Nelson Reilly passed away on Friday May 25th after a long illness. Charles was one of the most caring and generous people we have had the honor of knowing. He is responsible for the largest donation made to the museum to date by performing his one man show "Save it for the Stage" and donated all proceeds to the museum. He also conducted his Master Acting Class for the museum as well. We are planning a celebration of Mr. Reilly's life at the museum at 7pm on Saturday July 21st.

June 20th Ralph Villani's Acting Class
June 24th Marc Zatorsky's Acting Class
June 27th Ralph Villani's Acting Class
June 28th Writers Workshop

Next "Writers Workshop" will be on Thursday June 28th and will include a presentation by Alex Marquez from the Palm Beach Film Office who will discuss his latest film. Cost $10

The museum will host our annual "Pirates Day Festival" on July 28th Look for updates next week.

BURT REYNOLDS MUSEUM ACTING WORKSHOP'S

RALPH VILLANI'S next Acting Class and Workshop will be held on Wednesday June 20th from 7 pm – 9:30 pm. Ralph's classes are held every week during this time period.

Ralph Villani is a director, producer, actor and musician. He has studied with the New Group Theatre, the Tribecca Drama Institute and HB Studios in New York City. As an acting teacher his focus is within the methods of Sanford Meisner and Stella Adler. He had served on the Board of Directors for Theatre Gym in New York City. He has been artistic director for Bravado Theatre Company.

Class Outline
The acting class is held every Wednesday evening at 7:00PM. This class is for the beginner as well as the advanced actor. The class is about 2 ½ hours. The cost is $10.00 per class.

The best definition of acting that I know is: "Acting is behaving truthfully in imaginary circumstances." It would be wise to weigh this statement carefully before continuing, for it is more than a definition, it contains a fundamental philosophy regarding the art. The key word in this phrase is "truthfully." It is over this word and its possible alternate "effectively," that almost all disputes arise. This class is built on the foundation of this method.

Sanford Meisner and Stella Adler methods of acting.

1- Introduction to Acting
2- Justification: Who, What When, Where, And Why.
3- The Repetition Exercise
4- The Relationship
5- The Action Exercise
6- Understanding the Independent Activity
7- Improvisation / Objectives, Intentions, Being Specific, Timelocks, The Stakes.
8- Acting on Stage
9- Acting for Camera
10- Emotional Memory
11- Sense Memory
12- Fantasy Memory
13- Monologues
14- Auditioning

The Burt Reynolds Institute's Acting/Improv workshop Marc Zatorsky's next class will be held on Sunday, June 24th Class starts promptly at 5:00 and runs till 7:30.

(561)-389-4603 OR EMAIL UncleMarcLaughs@aol.com

The workshop provides a great opportunity for anyone who desires stage time and chance to perform in front of your peers to work on their monologues or audition pieces. It is also provides an opportunity to perform existing projects ( many of them written and directed by Marc) with other actors, perform improv games, stand-up routines, cold reads and much more. The workshop provides an encouraging outlet for first timers who have always been interested in acting, but never had an opportunity to perform solo on stage or with others. It also provides an outlet for the seasoned actor to continuously work on their craft.

THERE IS A $10 DONATION REQUIRED TO HELP PAY FOR THE LIGHTS.

ANY QUESTIONS FEEL FREE TO CALL MARC @ (561)-389-4603 OR EMAIL UncleMarcLaughs@aol.com

WRITER'S WORKSHOP

The writer's workshop meeting will be held at the Burt Reynolds Institute and Museum on Thursday June 28th 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. In the future we will continue to meet on the last Tuesday of each month and if those meetings are well attended we will expand to two meetings per month. The next meeting will be free of charge but the following meetings will require membership fees.

Some of the subjects we plan to cover are: character building, use and importance of dialogue, scene transition, beginnings and endings, story structure – transition, climax, negative/positive charges, personal discipline and writing habits, looking for story holes and researching solutions as well as what it takes to have your work published or produced. Cost to attend is $10

THERE IS A $10 DONATION REQUIRED TO HELP PAY FOR THE LIGHTS.

FLORIDA'S TURNPIKE OR I-95 TO INDIANTOWN ROAD, EAST TO U.S.HIGHWAY 1. We are on the NW corner or the north side at the base of the bridge