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and i have done
over 50 musicals, revieues, comedies and so on...i must have been o.k.
...... never had rotten tomatos thrown at me....well, not yet... get
in touch if you feel like it...
It was a cold and stormy
night………….o.k… it was noon on a wednesday in March 1962… that I came
into this dimension and breathed my first breath - as Keith Michael
Böhm……or Boehm, as we used to spell it. - Keith … why Keith!!!) And
was I Born in an exotic place, in an exciting cultured country.. Not a
Chance! Bismarck North Dakota..U.S.A….. even americans don’t believe it
really exists!! If you have seen the film FARGO, by the Coen Brothers…..
That is the place - those are my people…. What Chance did i have!!
As it turned out, a little better chance when we moved to ‘small
town America’ nestled between Chicago and Milwaukee…..name wich held to
Protect the naive…. Population 3200.. 30 years later it had grown to a
phenomenal 4800 - practically a Metropolis! So knowing I was a
‘ranging wooftah‘….as a collegue used to refer to me (affectionately, i
always hoped) and knowing this at the age of 10 in tiny town was a hard
childhood. To add to that wanting to be a singer/actor, and being ‘more
than average’ in a-learnin’ and natural cleverness. ….I was just asking
to have my head kicked in. Luckilly that never happened. And I won’t go
into being a boy scout … a Professional Boy Scout with all of that as
well…then we are talking Tragic sit-com Character - and I’ve gotten over
it all….and you would just find it all a little too amusing. (wink)
So blossoming into the charming man I now have become started by having
to be nice and funny …. All things I was good at. I have added Other
qualities to my Repertoire…more on them later…hehehe…. But i also
started singing professionally at the age of 15, which thru a series of
bizzare performances in a Renaissance Festival or two……(from a Madrigal
singing Prince of Wales one year, to the leper the next year…i felt i
really grew as an actor!!) I ended up wich a insane theatre company
perfoming in the Highlands of Scotland, doing Commedia del-arte to a
whole village in front of a pig barn. And no - luckily none of the pigs
used this opportunity to make mad passionate love and upstage us….. They
heckled thru out, of course, but were kind critics in the end…i don’t
think They really uderstood the piece tho…. So being such a success
in tue U.K…..(…………..) i decided to stay. And BOY did i stay! 21 years
there, 9 different flats. one Partner of 11.5 years who I still love
deeply, even tho we were always more friends than lovers…. when i love
some one, that is that…(more of that in DAY BY DAY…….. Ha! Now you have
to Look at THAT page as well) Two National Tours of Broadway Musicals
“Annie” & “The Pirates of Penzance” - doing over 35 #1 theatres and a
run in London’s West End - at the Palladium Theatre I ended up starring
in 5 summers of low budget theatre on the Isle of wight…slightly more
populär than North Dakota….. But with the exact same people… it was like
a home away from home….what Chance did i have!!! O.k….. it was a lot of
fun, and 26 revieus, 9 book musicals, and many many people having a
damn good evening out !! But no sex…nada…nunti…kein kein kein!!! Not on a
tiny Island in the englisch channel…. Filled wich elderly people and
Young families (and i mean Young families… “birth control…is that a new
button on the T.V. remote?“….)Hmmmmmmm, That must be why the Business
manager at the theatre always called me the ‘raging wooftah’………. But I
gave that all up …well it gave me up… or squeezed me dry…..theatre can
do that to you
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