Finalized

It's no longer tentative. The producer of Anton in Show Business posted an audition call to cast the final role. The decision has been made. The call is out there. And I'm in.

The call is for a black actress to play T-Anne; but the very white "Kelly Lypenski" has been cast in other roles. Yep, my friends and dear readers, the role of Actress 2 has been cast and "Kelly Lapenski" will be playing Ralph, Wikèwitch, and Joe Bob -- performing these delicious male roles in, respectively, British, Russian, and Southern accents.

Ein minuten bitter! Male roles?

Yes. Part of the subversive "behind the curtain of REAL THEATRE" nature of this show is to have all the parts played by women. As the character Kate explains to the metanarrative character Joby, "eighty percent of the roles in the American theater are played by men, and 90 percent of the directors are men. The point of having a male director played by a woman is to redress the former and satirize the latter."

Maybe. For my own part, I'll consider that I've made a dent in REAL THEATRE when I have redressed the spelling of my poor Polish name.