OMG i'm in another play!!1!

So a couple weeks ago, lillibet wrote and invited me to try out for this production of Lanford Wilson's one-act play Talley's Folly that theatreatfirst would be putting on in February (before they do You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown in the spring). It's 97 minutes, only two characters, a Jewish man and a Missouri woman, it's a love story, really charming. Okay, sure, I said, that sounds cool. And I read the script and I thought, yeah, this could be fun.

So, we had the audition/read-through last night, four men reading for Matt and four women reading for Sally. And I thought, this is pretty neat material -- but, well, all things considered I'll be happy either way.

But today they offered me the part and I am totally ecstatic. :-)
We're to learn lines over the coming month, start rehearsals January 18, and open February 11. (Hey, gang, how many performances might there be?)

The top two questions I've gotten so far are:
(a) "How the hell do you have time to do this?" (Answer: I didn't really have much on the schedule for that 4-week period... yet... anyway...)
(b) (on hearing me summarize the basic premise of the play) "Uh, was this part written for you?" ;-)

Well, we'll see.

And I'm playing opposite dpolicar, who is going to be just about as perfect in this role as navrins was for Henry.

And really I'm just so pleased to be assimilating signing on with the Firsties -- so many of whom I already know and love, and whom I've seen develop into this incredible mutual admiration society (which I mean in the nicest, most supportive, most enviable way possible).

More on all this later, for now I am long overdue for bed (and reek of frying latkes. Thus endeth the chag).