So the actor I auditioned on Friday can't do the show. We have options, but it does mean we go into tonight's first meeting, the read-through, one actor short.
This is not the worst of all possible worlds. A few years ago we were doing John Bowen's Fall and Redemption of Man, with a cast of twelve playing 58 parts. The night before we were to open, one of the cast was arrested for non-appearance in some court case somewhere, and disappeared from our universe. So now we had eleven actors to play 58 parts.
We canceled the first performance, and after a fevered day of reassignments I had the parts re-parceled so that nobody had to talk to himself, and we opened the show. It was exhausting, but people loved it and we toured it here and there in western Massachusetts. It's a show I would love to do again, but without the sheriffs.
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