The Marc Copage Podcast Show

My guest for today is an internationally renowned choreographer, and teacher who began his career as a street dancer where he was soon discovered by Toni Basil. He has worked both as lead dancer and choreographer for Diana Ross, The Jacksons, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Paula Abdul, Gloria Estefan, and many, many, more! His career has taken him to Las Vegas where he has choreographed shows at...

It was the first stop motion animation software for PC and Mac. I gave it to my students whose work ended up in the Metropolitan Museum Of Art. We won the education toy of the year. We wowed Comicon one year. And then eventually we signed a television deal.

Musician, actor, writer, producer, advocate, educator, and entrepreneur who was first discovered by Tiger Beat Magazine. Some of the shows you might know Brad from are Friends, ER, Scrubs, VIP, Who’s The Boss, Fright Night 2, Golden Girls, Veronica’s Closet and many more. He is the co-founder and President of SparkRise a game changing new platform and producer of various films about arts, literacy...

So you almost starred in an adult film? Ah, you know about that, huh? You’ve been doing your research. Do you want to tell us anything about that? Early on this guy… I was so broke, man. I had a token that day to take me to Manhattan. Then I walked from 42nd street all the way to…I don’t know, pretty far away to…one token to take me to Manhattan, one token to take me back. I walked and I saw this...

I had done “The Jeffersons” for CBS. That was a CBS movie. I had also just finished something called “Buffalo Soldiers”, but they cut me out of a lot of it and I was really depressed about that cause I had told everybody. Isabel Sanford, my mother, everybody. Oh, man, this is going to be great! It was supposed to be a big thing on NBC. They had my name there, but they cut a lot of  me out and I wa...

I don’t think I really need a lot of approval from others. I don’t think I ever really did. Even as a child. If they didn’t like me, that’s ok. I’m not going to bother you, now if you get in my face then we’re going to have a little bit of a problem, but ok I’ll leave you alone if you don’t care for me. I never really took that stance that I needed everybody to like me, that I needed to be the gol...

I don’t really understand wanting to be around only one type of person. I don’t think that’s what makes life interesting and relationships interesting. All of their interests and their knowledge. It’s fascinating to me getting to know people. Your stories are your message and how I go about delivering them. The things I learned as a young girl or child and I was very lucky. I had various women in...

The irony is that our brains are not wired to make us happy. Our brains are wired to keep us alive.  It’s the fight or flight mechanism that we learn about as kids that really maintains our human nature is to have this negative bias because it’s to keep us alive, but the thing is we’re not wandering through the jungle with saber tooth tigers or any of that sort of thing these days. Predators of co...

I remember all the while being on the set and getting to see the whole process. I was always so fascinated with the production aspect. Everything from the clapper board, when they would mention the take number and do the sink thing, to the sound guy rolling the sound, the DP’s the director, looking through the camera. I just found it all so much fun. I just loved it all! So I thought maybe I could...

So you’re working with Hugh Jackman. How does Hugh Jackman get to be Hugh Jackman? How does one get to have a career like Hugh Jackman? Well, he’s the kindest individual that most people have ever met. And he’s so generous. He finds moments throughout the play, every single day where he will connect with everyone on the stage. It’s amazing. It’s like, he’s someone you feel like you must be around....

My guest for today is a New York actor who has spent many years as part of the Los Angeles theater community. Yes, it does exist! Some of his film credits include “This Is Where I Leave You” with Jane Fonda, Tina Fey, and Jason Bateman. “I Am Michael”, starring James Franco, “The Humbling”, starring Al Pacino and Greta Gerwig. He has also been in the stage productions of “My Fair Lady”, “Sunset Bo...

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Description: When I’m doing my arranging I start from the bottom and work my way up. It’s the same for composing a song from scratch to already taking an arrangement it’s a pretty similar procedure. With an original composition I’ll start with the drum set. Whether it be a jazz song or R&B or Gospel. What kind of beat do I want so I’ll program my beat in. Then I’ll make the bass line. I’ve alr...

To help content creators get better audio from their mixes and podcasts. I realized that there was not any kind of a podcast like Music Outlook LA which is basically gigs, gear, and info where I interview independent artists and content creators and it doesn’t matter what you do whether you are a musician, vocalist, audio engineer, photographer, best boy or gaffer for an indie film project. As lon...

I get a call from a young lady named Victoria Thomas. She was a college student at UCLA.  And she said a casting director told her about me and she needed an extra to be in this student film she was doing. So she wanted to know if I was willing to come in and be in the background. I told her sure. I had never done background before. So I went in. When I got there one of the guys who was supposed t...

When you came out to LA, you were living in your car for a period of time? When I got to LA I had fifty dollars in my pocket. I had a hole in my tire and I had no place to go. I was living in my car. I went to try and get some gas and I thought how my ex wife let a girl live with us for thirty days before she moved to California. So I called my ex-wife and asked her to call this girl and see if I...

Bob Mackie. Working for him was a dream come true. I got to talk to people like Carol Burnett, Diana Ross. I got to make Diana Ross a pair of earrings. There’s a photo out now of Carol Burnett in her Norma Desmond costume and it says ‘Happy Birthday, darling and I lost it. I did her hair with those little spit curls and I made her finger nails and the cigarette holder she’s using. And I have them...

There’s nothing like, when you finally have the person in the chair and your sitting in from of the mirror having the fitting and you put the wig on their head. Then you see the smile come across their face. There’s a look that comes into their eyes and you know that you did it and that everything is working. That really is the best part of it! Bringing a character to life or just helping a woman...

I’ve heard there’s some name older actresses that have dropped out of the business just because of all this self taping and they just can’t wrap their minds around the technology. They just can’t handle it. Yeah, I don’t blame them. This didn’t happen to me, but I was helping someone cast their film and I had to take all the actors and one of the roles I felt so bad this woman was perfect, but I c...

Does it get any easier as the time goes on? It actually does not get any easier. It’s almost like you’re always interviewing for a job. It does get easier as far as once you get in with say a certain producer or a certain casting director or a director. They might think of you later for another project so that’s where it’s probably easier. But where it’s harder is, ya know, everyone still has to a...

There was a lot going on in the country at that time. 1968 was a very turbulent period in our nation’s history. There was a social revolution. A demand for more freedom and rights for minority’s and women. The Vietnam war was going on. An anti-war movement. Marches, protests, riots, hippies, a sexual revolution. A questioning of authority and the government. And the assassinations of Dr Martin Lut...

It was like being in the twilight zone where everything was the opposite because in LA as an actor i always felt like you as a Black man have so many less opportunities. You audition for a commercial, there’s five roles. Four of the roles are for White men and the one other role is for what they call ‘other’ meaning Black, Latino, Asian, ‘Other’, and so it felt like your opportunities were much le...