Gabriel performing "What a Game" in the musical, Ragtime. Click on the photo below to watch the performance.

Next up Seussical the Musical. Gabe will be playing multiple small roles in this Musical. Nothing major but every role is fun!

Midsummer Dress Rehearsal

The Changling!

We couldn't be prouder!!!!!
Gabriel was officially offered the role of "The Changling" this afternoon. It's a major role for a boy his age and one where he'll be on stage for a good portion of the play.

Wasting no time, they'll start rehearsal right away. Tomorrow is the first meeting.

We can't wait to see him in action :)

A Midsummer Night's Dream

The Toledo Repertoire Theatre

Gabriel had an audition today at The Toledo Rep. William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

This should be interesting. There's one role we're hoping he'll land. The role of "The Changeling boy" This role has little to no speaking parts but is a role where he'll appear on stage for a large portion of the play.

We just think he'd be perfect as "The Changeling"

Behind the Scenes photos of the Toft's Ice Cream Commercial

The Pet Idol Commercial

Gabe stars in another really fun commercial. He plays an imaginative boy who thinks his dog is the absolute best pet in the world (maybe even the universe)

Pet Idol

Gabriel on set of his newest commercial. Pet Idol.

Stone Soup, Character

Well this Saturday we found out what character Gabe will be playing in the upcoming Children's Theater production "Stone Soup". He'll be playing the part of Sammy, and towns person. There's no script yet so we're not really sure if it ha a speaking role, but we sure hope so.

As expected, all the teenagers received the main roles and the little ones received supporting roles. This should be fun for Gabriel. He'll be able to dress up in a costume, walk out of stage in front of a live audience and pretend to be someone else.

Good times. Of course, you're all welcome to come see him during one of his performances

Audition

Auditions are the Saturday for parts in Stone Soup. I hope Gabriel blows the judges away!

Gabe signs with Diverse Talent Group

We've know for a while now but we didn't want to post it until we received the actual paperwork.

Gabriel officially has an agent. We have signed with Diverse Talent Group out of Los Angeles.

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Diverse Media Group’s (Pink Sheets:DVME) subsidiary Diverse Talent Group has proven itself to be a rock solid force in Hollywood as it holds the prestigious position of the world’s 10th largest talent agency. In the new Talent Agency Rankings just published by the award winning Los Angeles Business Journal, Diverse Talent Group has again claimed its foothold among the top industry leaders.

Ranked 14th in 2002, the same year pacesetter Creative Artist Agency took the first position away from the iconic William Morris Agency, Diverse Talent Group moved rapidly up the ranks to the 12th position by 2004. It was in 2006 that Diverse first reached a milestone and made it into the top 10 out of more than 300 agencies.

The company was originally founded in 1982 as CNA & Associates; the Agency was later merged with Susan Sussman’s Premiere Artists Agency and renamed Diverse Talent Group. The Company offers talent and literary representation in motion pictures, commercials, episodic television and cable programming, in addition to project packaging and distribution. With a roster of high-profile clients and a mix of developing prospects, Diverse Talent Group is a robust organization building on its foundation of talent-based commissions and television and film packaging revenues.

Diverse Talent Group’s highly valued assets consist of a client base that range in scope from Academy-Award® winners and top sitcom artists, to hourlong drama directors, editors and producers. It is this extensive client base that has propelled Diverse Media Group’s rise to its current preeminent position in Hollywood. This client roster provides the Agency with recurring and ongoing revenues as the Agency receives percentages of all proceeds generated from its celebrity clients. Additionally, Diverse engages in high-margin development projects for television and film. The Agency’s strong creative team has developed a specialty in producing packages for film and television that provide additional revenue streams as part of a diverse strategic growth plan.

Chris Nassif, president and founder of Diverse Talent Group, says: “We have been consistently moving up the ranks and have demonstrated our ability to thrive in a competitive environment. Having accomplished a solid foothold as one of the industry’s top 10 agencies, our next target is focused on the top five and we are pulling the trigger.”

The start of the 2009 television season marks the beginning of a welcome industry turnaround, after last year’s strike by the Writers Guild of America cut short the 2008 season. The industry publication Mediaweek™ reports that “premiere week was a good week for broadcasters, as viewers returned to network shows in large numbers.” Diverse Talent Group currently has numerous actors with regular or recurring roles, as well as producers, directors and writers working on shows airing on ABC (Disney), CBS (CBS Corp), Fox (News Corp), and NBC (General Electric) as well as many other networks. Nassif added, “The entertainment industry has historically done very well during economic hard times and that trend seems to be holding true as our current economy roller coasters. We are not only located in the epicenter of the entertainment industry but after many years of persistence we are now positioned to make our move and the timing is now right.”

About Diverse Media Group, Inc.

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2nd Day at The Workshop

So Gabe had his first class canceled when mother nature decided to dump 2 feet of snow on the ground. However, this past Saturday was his first actual class at Children's Theater Workshop
It was a basic "get to know everyone" session so they mostly messed around. This week I expect they'll actually start to work on following direction and maybe even starting to work on stage direction. I'll keep everyone posted

Children's Theater Workshop

Gabriel has just signed up with Children's Theater Workshop. A coworker ad friend on mine Helen Okenka pointed us to this great opportunity. Helen's daughter Cassie was part of the organization when she was younger and Helen and her have nothing but good things to say about the experience. Cassie was always a star in the making and really had a Passion for the spotlight. . Not only was Cassie a finalist on MTV's "Legally Blond,, but she's currently stars in the the lead role of Dorthy in the national touring production of The Wizard of Oz.

Being a part of Children's Theater Workshop will give Gabriel the opportunity to gain experience with costumes, pros, and sets, as well as, build on his skills interacting with others and gain additional confidence in front of an audience.

As soon as we have more information on Children's Theater Workshop we'll be sure to pass it on.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Toledo Area Entertainers Shine at IMTA New York

Fourteen Toledo Ohio area actors, models, singers and dancers brought home over seventy awards from the semi-annual International Modeling and Talent Association's (IMTA) event held in New York. IMTA is an organization comprised of leading modeling and talent training centers engaged in the professional promotion of the fashion and talent industry.

More then 400 top fashion and talent agents, casting directors and industry professionals participated as judges and scouts in the weeklong international event. Men, women and children of all ages competed in various modeling and acting competitions. Fourteen talented students from Starbound NYC, ranging in age from 4 to 30, competed and earned over seventy awards. Antonio Banks, Sarah Bomber, Tanner Buchnanan, Cynthia Marsh, Gabriel Olmor, Drew Renken, Manny Sanchez and Stuart Wells all won awards for acting and modeling. Duncan Black, Robert Eadie, Suz Hage, Diana Henzler, Kathryn Henzler and Nate Sepic received recognition and awards in acting competitions.

Event winners included 4-year-old Antonio Banks taking top honors in three modeling categories: fashion print, jeans and runway. Robert Eadie, 19, won a first place award for "Ready for My Close-up." One of Starbound's youngest competitors, 4-year-old Gabriel Omlor, won two first place acting awards for his monologue and sitcom competitions.

Starbound NYC & Margaret O'Brien's has been serving talented individuals in Ohio, Michigan, New York and Los Angeles for over 45 years. Starbound's classes and talent management services have directed actors, models, singers, and dancers toward the entertainment field, helping them get signed with talent agencies throughout the country. Starbound alumni include Katie Holmes, Alyson Stoner, Adrianne Palicki and many more. Actors, models, dancers and singers that have completed the Starbound program have been seen in major films such as Batman Begins, Cheaper By The Dozen, Pop Star, Seven Mummies, Mr. Woodcock, and Christmas With The Kranks and television shows such as Scrubs, Smallville, Dawson's Creek, South Beach, Malcolm in the Middle, and CSI. They have also been featured in national magazines such as GQ, Vogue, Seventeen, Glamour, and Cosmopolitan. More information regarding Starbound and first time auditions can be found at http://www.starboundnyc.com.

The Final Toft's Commercial

Simple and all Gabe had to do was eat ice cream and look cute. Not exactly a stretch :)

Toft's Ice Cream

Gabriel is going to make another commercial appearance. This time for Toft's Ice Cream. I don't have a script but from what I've been told, he will not have any lines. He simply needs to sit there and eat ice cream. Wow, that should be a real hard one for him to pull off :)

A Storybook Election

Gabriel stared in a commercial for Key bank and the Library. A Storybook Election. The idea was pretty cool. In November all the "Big People" get to go out and vote for President, so the library thought it would be cool to get the kids out to the polls as well. Only instead of voting for the boring old people, they get to vote for their favorite Storybook character. Gabriel's role in the commercial is of the person making the announcement to an excited crowd of voters. I think it came out grat and gabriel shined!




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Peanut M&M

Everybody is just winding down and settling back down to reality. At this point we're just waiting to hear back from Wendi. My guess is she's pretty busy

Some of Gab'e Monologue

And here is some of Gabe's Monologue. unfortunately Holly didn't get it all cus there was something in the way, but when she moved up she was able to get a pretty clear shot of him

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Video

I'm working on capturing all the video from the trip. As soon as I get some clips, I'll be sure to share. Holly even managed to capture almost his entire Monologue so I'll be sure to post that one

Decisions to make

Holly will call Wendi on Monday and set up a private appointment. She's going to sit down with us and review each of the agencies interested in Gabriel. She'll be able to tell us which agencies she recommends. Of course, her recommendation will hold a lot of merit, since she's been doing this for quite some time, and we're just newbies from Toledo

Leaving for New York City

Click on each photo to see a larger version

Across the street from Radio City Music Hall

Little Man in a Big City

Enjoying the Park

Central Park Fountain

Across From Time Square

Gabe and his awards

Almost Time to Come home

They're finally coming home !!
Emma and I can't wait to see him

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I few people have asked how Emma is handling all this and I I want to say, she couldn't be happier for Gabe. She loves seeing him do his thing on stage and even practices with him at home. The two of them will take turns pretending to be the audience while the other performs.

Emma just doesn't have the guts t actually do it on stage in front of an audience, but she absolutely loves to see her little brother do well.

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The awards are in!!!!

Holly just called and gave me a break down of all the awards. Gabriel placed in every single event he entered.

6th Place in Swimwear
6th Place in Theatrical Headshot
6th Place in Jeans
6th Place in Runway

3rd Runner up in TV Real People
3rd Runner up in Fashion Print

2nd Runner up in Beauty Commercial
2nd Runner up in Toys “R” us Commercial

WINNER in Sitcom
WINNER in Monologue

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GabeCast: Updates on Agents

There's just Waaaaay too much news to try and type up. I'm a very slow typist so it's just easier for me to record an audio track and load it to the site.

enjoy


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Must be a long day of meetings today cus Holly hasn't been calling me with her usual updates

Call Backs

Well Gabe has 12 call Backs today. Which is great news.

However, Holly tells me she already went to one person who is very interested in Gabriel but is now on the fence. On the fence because Gabe wasn't being himself in the call back. He's being very antisocial and crabby. Not exactly a good thing

So hopefully he cheers up and has some better call backs cus as it stands now he's not exactly nailing his interviews

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now my stomach doesn't feel very good

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Fun Times in NYC

So I've neglected to tell you some of the fun stuff Holly and Gabe have been doing. Like for one thing they visited this big M&M store that I guess is just a heaven for all things M&M related. They also took a log channel boat cruise that took them around Manhattan and over to ellis island where they were able to be right on top of The Statue of Liberty. All lit up at night. Holly said it was amazing. They even had a DJ on the boat so, of course, Gabe and Holly had to do some dancing.

They also went to a shop called Serendipity. The same exact ice cream shop in the movie Serendipity. However, it's a very popular place so they had to wait around for an hour until they could be seated. So in the mean time they walked over to a candy shop called Dylan's Candy Bar. Holly said it was like walking into Willy Wonka's. They had a door man all dressed up who opened the door and greeted you with a big smile and a hello. The entire floor was actual candy varnished to the floor, even the steps to the second level. Just wall to wall candy.

They've been having blast and I can't wait to see all the photos and video

Sitcom.

In sitcom Gabriel has to work with another actor and play off his reactions. So he goes up on stage and begins the dialogue. It's really acting as you would on the set of a television show. Once again, Holly tells me he did an awesome job. Nailed every line and really gave the judges what they were looking for.

Call backs start on Thursday, so anyone who is interested in Gabriel will set up private appointments to meet with Holly and Gabe.

He has one more competition left and then he's all done and they just have to sit back and wait to see if he receives any call backs

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Holly and Gabe have two more appointments with agents today as well

Spoke with an Agent

Holly and Gabriel met with an agent yesterday. This is pretty big news as they haven't even started the call back sessions yet. Those do not begin until Thursday. So clearly he's very interested in Gabriel. It's a little scary to think about actually signing with an agency and Gabriel making national commercials and movies. There's a ton to think about and decide. Not exactly something you want to just rush into.

One thing he did say though, was that he expects Gabriel to receive a ton of call backs. Again, kind of scary. I mean we signed Gabriel up for the sow hoping he would be seen, but now that it's actually here and about to happen, it's a bit surreal

Early Day

Well that's it for competitions today. An early day for him. So now Holly and Gabe can sit back and relax for the rest of the day and night. However, they need to go check the schedule board around 3:30, to see what time tomorrows events will start.

He has another unwary completion, This time swimsuit, and he has his last acting performance. Sitcom. In sitcom he'll be playing off another actor.

Come back tomorrow for more updates, and thank to everyone reading this blog :)

Fashion Runway

Gabriel also did his Fashion Runway today. Once again, he did pretty good but I think it's obvious he really enjoys being in front of the camera more than doing the modeling. He just finds acting much more fun.

Holly said he did give a really good smile at the end of the runway to the judges and he did get a reaction so that's good.

However, there's another boy named Antonio that's killing on the runway. Holly said it's like Usher coming on stage when he walks out. The crowd loves him and he's just the cutest little boy.

All of these events are great for Gabe. If anything he loves the attention and it just continues to build his confidence

Closed Set Commercials.

This morning Gabriel had to do his closed set commercials. These are commercials with no judges, no parents, and no audience. They're shot pretty much like a normal commercial would be shot. He stands in front of a white screen while a camera crew films his performance. They also display his performance on a monitor for everyone in the shoot to see. Basically they want to see how he handles direction and how he does in a real world set.

Now normally Holly would never leave Gabe alone on a set but this is just how they do the competition. So with that in mind all the parents were quiet as a church mouse in the waiting room and when their child went in they all went up to the door to listen in and peak through the peep hole.

Holly said Gabriel, once again, did a great job on both his Beauty commercial and his Real People commercial. He nailed them both and Holly said she couldn't have been prouder. Especially since they were really running behind on the first commercial. He was suppose to shoot at 8:15 but didn't get in until 9:20. Not good for a 4 year old. Once he finished his was rushed into the next commercial and Holly was nervous he may stumble. But no. They guy is something. I'm most impressed with Gabe's ability to remember every single word. He never forgets.

I'm not sure what's next for him, since I needed to let Holly go. But I'll fill you in as soon as I get more news

Monologue

I just received another update from Holly. Gabe had his monologue at 7 tonight. He ended up being the third from the last guy to give his performance, in his group. They separate the actors into smaller groups for the monologues and have them do it in front of a smaller group of judges. I assume, because the monologues are so much longer than a15 second commercial. Oh and they still need to perform in front of an audience.

Holly said the judges stay pretty quite through all of the monologues and didn't say much. That is until Gabriel came up to do his. Holly said he did his monologue as good as she's ever seen him do it. He had the judges reacting, and laughing hard. In fact she said one judge looked like we was going to fall out of his chair when he said "she probably picks her boogers and eats them" When he was done they gave him a big round of applause and one judge even stood up and walked over to a separate area to make, what looked like a special note of his performance.

I have to say, Holly and I couldn't be more proud of our little man. He shows no fear in front of a big crowd and people he doesn't even know. Poor Holly is far more nervous than Gabriel ever is.

Well that's it for today. Tomorrow the day starts bright and early. He has three performances before noon

Runway Jeans

OK, so Gabe just had his Runway Jeans walk.
Holly said he did good but not great. Unfortunately they walked a little different at IMTA than they did in class so that threw him for a loop. He ended up missing one of his stops and walked off without giving one last stop and smile.

That was kind of a bummer but you know what, that's OK. he's doing his best and having a blast that's what really counts.

Toys "R" Us Commercial

Holly just called and told me that Gabe KILLED on his Toys "R" Us commercial. She was nervous as heck for him but Gabe was a cool cucumber on stage. She said there was about 20-30 judges watching his performance on stage in front of a pretty good sized audience.

He nailed it and even made the crowd laugh, Which is great cus it's a pretty funny and interesting skit

Arrived in New York

Well Gabe and Holly are in New York and already soaking in the environment. They arrived at 10 am but didn't actually check into their room until 2 pm. Holly tells me the drive in was pretty amazing. They drove through neighborhood after neighborhood until eventually the neighborhoods turned to downtown. She says it truly is a whole new world in NYC compared to little Toledo.

Their room is on the 30th floor of the Hilton and just a couple blocks away from Radio City Music Hall. Holly has already taken a photo of Gabriel in front of the Late Show entrance, as well as, eaten lunch in Time Square. It sounds to me like they're having a great time

Tonight is his first competition. Actually he has three tonight. Toys "R" Us, jeans modeling (on the Catwalk), and finally his monologue.

AS the info come in, I'll keep everyone posted

Only 2 more weeks until Gabe and Holly head off to NYC. The time just flew by. I hope to get some video on here of Gabriel performing his commercial and other acting tasks.

Wendi would like him to perform in another showcase so I would really like to bring the camera for that day.

Plus Holly will take a camera with her to NYC to capture the entire event. She won't be able to tape the auditions of course but she'll tape what she can. After all she'll be there for Gabe, not to tape everything for me

Gabriel had his showcase on Monday. Of course, HE ROCKED!!!!!

I'm not trying to brag (well maybe a little) but I felt he really did a great job. I was a little concerned about how he would do. I mean he's been practicing in front of his class for weeks now but doing it in front of strangers is a whole new ball game.

He did goof around a little but once he finally stopped messing around with Wendi and the teachers, he went out on stage and belted out his lines like a true champ.

Wendi has also asked Gabriel to come back again for the older group showcase. Again, the more practice he has the better. I think they'll actually walk the runway at this showcase, so that should be pretty cool to see. Of course they'll do their commercials and monologue as well so we'll all get to see that one more time.

It's memorial day weekend so not class today. In fact no class this past saturday either. So Holly has been practicing Gabe's new lines with him. He has a whole new set of commercials he needs to practice for the show. He's already memorizing them very quickly.

I finally got to see him do his runway walk the other day. I went into Starbound and could hear the music jamming. I walked around the corner just in time to see Gabe doing his walk. Needless to say I was very proud of him. He did a great job and just looked like such a little man

His showcase is this coming Monday so we'll all get to see him do his stuff in front of a crowd of people. It's all in an effort to get him used to doing stuff in front of a large crowd. Something he'll really need to be ready to do in NYC

Ok, so after having a few weekends off for the holiday and Bad weather , Gabe finally had another class. He was very excited. The cool thing is, Wendi wants to move hi,m up to the older kids level. She feels he's pretty much gotten everything he can from the lower level. We're, of course, excited to hear this. So next week he's up with the older kids.

Gabe's class was canceled last week due to the giant snowfall we had. He was a little bummed he couldn't go to his class but we did our best to try and make up for it and went sledding on both Saturday and Sunday.

Today Wendi, once again, said he's doing a great job and would like him to begin working on a monologue. This should be fun. Holly has already selected the monologue she thinks fits him best, one that allows his spitfire attitude to shine through. Once he has it memorized, I'll be sure to tape it and share it with you all

A commercial for the Toledo Food Bank. He doesn't say anything, but I think he does a fine job pulling off sad, cold, and hungry