Yesterday afternoon, I did some promotional photographs for “Insecurity,” a new musical by Mickey Zetts appearing at the Midtown International Theater Festival. I’ve known Mickey for a long time now, and he’s just an immensely talented perfromer and songwriter. Most importantly, he has the good sense to cast my beautiful and talented wife Paula in his show.

Having a 2 1/2 year-old child, Paula and I tend to “trade off” on creative opportunities. So getting me to shoot shots for a show my wife is in is difficult at best. The “Suckers” shot involved an on-site babysitter (thanks, Tesse!) and so did this one (thanks, Tania!). Thankfully, Benjamin was very, very good this time around, and even napped for a while! Miracle!

Where this shoot differed from the last one, though, is that we had to get a few… provocative… shots. Nothing explicit, of course, but it’s kind of hard to say, “Bend over a little more” and “show some more cleavage” when your wife and son are in the room. Thankfully, I have a wonderfully understanding wife, and a child engrossed in watching “Wall-E.”

As always, the rest of the Insecurity photo shoot can be found on Flickr.