Chapter 3

“It’s okay. Let’s see what we can work out with what’s left. Maybe we can still work out practices in our room,” Mark said.

Frank and Mark looked carefully down the list of plays. The Glass Menagerie had an opening. Only the male role was left. The Sandbox had two roles open, but they were for a woman and a man. The other roles, one guy and one girl, were taken.

“Besides, too many people. Wouldn’t be able to work in rehearsals,” Frank said.

Mark pointed at a posting. “Here’s one, A Resounding Tinkle.”

“Never heard of it.”

“It says it’s a British play about a husband and his wife tryin’ to find a name for their new pet elephant.”

“Pet elephant? Sounds weird.” Frank commented.

“It gets weirder. It has two male roles open: the husband, and an uncle who’s just come out as transgender.”

“Who’d play the uncle?”

“You.”

“Why me?”

“Because Jane Goodman signed up for the wife, and she’s nearly six foot tall. It’d be too bizarre for you to be her husband and a half a foot shorter.”