My session is brief, brief, brief. A couple of "Yes, your Highness"'s and a bark or two and I'm out of there. This session is being recorded at Screen Music in North Hollywood which is one of my favorite places on Earth, which is a good thing since I sometimes spend part of every single day there. As it turns out, my next session is also at Screen Music and also for Disney. It also contains barking! It's 101 Dalmatians, the series, where I play Rolly, Cadpig and Anita. We end up recording well over a hundred episodes of this show throughout the year, often up to four episodes a week. Also, once the episodes come back from overseas where they are animated, we have dozens and dozens of sessions of looping to perfect the dialogue for broadcast. Often the animators will create "lip flaps" where there is no actual dialogue taking place or a line will be garbled or unclear sound-wise and need to be re-recorded for clarity. Sometimes a scene just isn't funny in it's finished form, so the writers will come up with a (hopefully) more clever series of lines. In these sessions we watch the scene on a television and drop the new line in over the old line. This kind of session is very challenging as you are trying to feel the scene properly but in a specific time frame. Also the new lines can be very tricky to fit into the established lip flaps (movements).

101 is wrapped by 6 p.m. and my day is once again done; except, of course, for the two scripts I find waiting on my doorstep when I arrive home. Often the scripts for the next day's work don't get delivered until the night before which means "homework" awaits. There is also a tape that has been delivered with a rough track of a song that needs to be learned for tomorrow's session.

Television Plus Some: Wednesday
The next morning is yet another Rugrats session but this one is scheduled for all day, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. We complete the last scenes, do pickups and, in the afternoon, record songs. From this point on, all ensuing work on the movie will be only the occasional pickup session. My next session is back at Screen Music in North Hollywood. It's Casper for Universal Cartoons. I play the part of Kat, Casper's young human friend. We do two episodes where Ginny McSwain directs. Ginny is a legend in the animation world. We all adore her. She is hugely bright, utterly irreverent, fast, precise and direct. To be bossed around by her is a joy.

We complete the two Casper episodes and then I have one more thing to do before the day is done: drive to the voice casters and audition for an Airtouch Cellular advertisement. This appointment is in Burbank and I have to get there by 6:15 p.m. With a lot of careening around and breaking of laws, I just make it. (I do end up booking this...several radio spots and a television spot which record the following week.)

Kat, Casper's young human friend in Universal'sseries,Casper , is voiced by Kath Soucie.© MCA TV International.

One Busy Day: Thursday
Thursday starts with a 9 a.m. session at Screen Music. This time it is Invasion America. Steven Spielberg and Harvey Bennett are executive producing the show and it is a vastly interesting project. The vision of the show is an utterly real, very prime-time feeling science-fiction adventure. It is also a very celebrity-heavy show. We all work together at the same time which makes for some great scene work. Leonard Nimoy, Kristy McNichols, Robert Urich, the amazing Edward Albert...all great actors. My parts on this show are wonderful and offer me great opportunities to play around. The scenes are taut and highly emotional. We all have a good time hamming it up while at the same time reining it in.

My day is very tightly booked today so while my contract would normally have me staying the entire four hours, my agent has arranged to have me released early so that I can get everything in. My next stop is in Burbank at Horta Sound for an episode of Hey Arnold in which I play Helga's mother, Miriam, and Harold's mother, Marilyn. This show makes me about as happy as I can get. I can't possibly describe to you how wonderful this set is; it is the most creative atmosphere of which I have ever been a part. The scripts are beyond compare. The talent is really original with the children's parts being played by child actors, who are refreshing and great. Furthermore, everyone on the production team is a pal. They pickup my lines separately so I can make my 1:30 session in West Hollywood.