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Through a loophole in the Hasty Pudding charter, women can audition for the traditionally all-male cast. But it's a bit like auditioning to a wall. Regardless of how good Winsome Brown is, how well she played either male or female parts, she won't be allowed to perform...
Prior to her audition, Brown had a conference with the producers of the show to discuss the issue of females in the cast.
"[The producers] took me aside and asked me if I knew that the show was written for and performed by men," Brown said. "I told them that I knew, but they were very kind and let me audition nevertheless."
This year, however, Brown tried a different strategy. On the audition sign-up sheet, she entered the alias "Nicholas Pettybone," instead of her real name.
Race talk as bonding mechanism is powerfully on display in American literature. When Nick in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby leaves West Egg to dine in fashionable East Egg, his host conducts a kind of class audition into WASP-dom by soliciting Nick's support for the "science...