No, really, it's a good opportunity!

• In a kinda "WTF?" bit of casting, I discovered last night that the guy I thought would be playing Franz Liebkind at is actually playing Roger DeBris, which means that (as remote a possibility as it is) Liebkind is still available. They've also cast the (relatively) fresh-faced athletic guy as Bialystock and the older(ish)--they may be the same age--more weathered guy as Bloom. I've not seen an Ulla in their current company, although there are a couple of Ulla-types in the community at large.


• The weekend after community auditions for The Producers are the UPTAS (or to make it a pleonasm, the UPTA Auditions), where the good folks at Playhouse on The Square will hire as interns three or four short girls and one tall one to supply the roles that call for a tall girl, although she will never be as loved among the company as the short girls. Also, at least half the cast of The Producers will come from these auditions, so everybody show up!


• Checking out the UPTA site, I notice that you can audition for VeggieTales Live Entertainment, and/or Dollywood.


• Also from the UPTA site, if five of the companies (The Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre, Murry's Dinner Playhouse, Tweetsie Railroad, Blowing Rock Stage Company, and VeggieTales, for instance) say that you suck, you can't ever audition again unless you convince three of them that you don't suck anymore.


• Seriously, this is a great opportunity for anyone who has several thousand dollars of college debt to earn up to $24K a year working 60-70 hour weeks. Actually, if you're straight out of college you can earn $5K a year, plus housing, for your similar 60-70 hour workweek, which is probably less profitable than busking and certainly less profitable than waiting tables. But at least you'll be in show business.

Word Rage.

Looking over the list of suggested words to add to Merriam-Webster (the one which officially created "w00t"), I arrived at one question:

Why the hell isn't quixotic already in there? For Cervantes' sake, it's in The Devil's Dictionary!

QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay.

When ignorance from out of our lives can banish
Philology, 'tis folly to know Spanish.

-Juan Smith

Meriam-Webster: 100 years too late, or just useless as a dictionary?

Bootiliciously yours,
Fancycwabs.

EDIT: Apparently "quixotic" and several other words on the list are already in said dictionary, and the list I consulted was nominees for "word of the year." Stupid word of the year should always be motherfucker.

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