At the Comic-Con in San Diego last July, my pal Earl Kress and I hosted a couple of panels about Cartoon Voices…panels filled with very talented folks who furnish them for the top animated shows. A feature of each panel was when we passed out a script — a bland, highly generic telling of the story of Cinderella — and had the actors perform it for the crowd. This is what's known in the trade as a Cold Reading because they didn't get the chance to see the material in advance or to rehearse.
We did the same script at two panels — one on Saturday, one on Sunday, with different participants. The embed below should show you shaky home video someone took of the reading from the Saturday panel. The first person you'll see in it is me. The guy passing the scripts out is Earl. Then the performers are as follows: On the far left is Chuck McCann. Next to Chuck (and playing Cinderella) is Candi Milo. Then, reading from left to right, we have Jason Marsden, Tom Kane, Gregg Berger, Fred Tatasciore and April Winchell. This runs about eighteen minutes but I bet you'll think it's worth the time. Every one of those actors did something brilliant with the ingredients we handed them.
UPDATE, later in the day: We have a better video of this panel available. You can view it on this page.
