Yesterday, I promised that I would cover a topic today, but I said I had run out of time at the end of the previous episode so I couldn’t do it.

Today I couldn’t remember what it was so I had to check at the end of yesterday’s episode and now I know.

I mentioned that I had to go to rehearsal.

So let me tell you about that, it’s kind of funny.

So I was in Chicago being a fake CEO when I get a text and the text is from the stage manager of the show Batboy and I had auditioned for Batboy a couple weeks prior and then I heard that it was getting cast and I saw that I had not been called back and a good friend of mine got the role of the father which was one that I had been interested in and I was excited for him of course and yeah, so I was like, okay, I didn’t get into that one, but I get this text like, hey Lex, that’s my name, that’s probably what the text said.

We still need to cast one role for the show and we had misread your form and thought that you would only take the father, but you said that you would take other roles too, so we’d like to offer you the role of the sheriff slash Dahlia and I found this amusing to be quite honest because it’s weird to misread my audition form.

I said exactly what I would take, which was multiple roles and so it’s kind of funny and I was like, I wonder if this is really what happened or did somebody drop out and like I’m a villain.

So I was doing a little bit behind the scenes texting like, guys, is this really how it happened?

Yeah, they still had not cast this one role and so they’re like, yeah, we want you to be the sheriff and Dahlia.

I was like, okay, I’ll do it.

The number one reason I did it because my buddy John is in the show as the father and I love doing shows with my buddy John.

This will be our fourth one together.

So I was like, yeah, let’s do it up.

Maybe it’s our third one together.

Hang on.

We did Avenue Q.

We did Elf.

Maybe this is our third show together.

So I see him a lot, so I feel like I’m in all the shows with him and so I’ll do this.

So then that night when I’m done being Justin for the day, I’m looking at the scripts online and so as I mentioned, they said, we want you to be the sheriff and Dahlia because many roles in the show, you play a second role and typically men play women or men play certain women in the show.

Women also play women in the show, but regardless, but I’m looking through the script and I can’t find Dahlia.

So I reached back out to the stage manager who would contact me like, hey, I can’t find Dahlia.

He’s like, oh, the online script is the worst.

We’ll give you a printed script and that’ll clear things up.

Don’t worry about it.

I was like, okay.

Then a couple hours later, he’s like, yeah, we can’t find her either in the script.

She’s on Wikipedia, but she’s not in script, but don’t worry, we’ll figure it out.

So now I’m like, what the hell is going on?

By the way, there’s no resolution to the story.

I still don’t know what the hell is going on.

I know for sure I’m the sheriff.

I don’t know if I’m another part or not.

They say there might be some other extra parts that we need you to fill in.

Okay.

But there’s something very funny to me about not knowing what parts I was willing to do and then offering me among other things, a part that’s not in the show.

The sheriff, you know, we’re like West Virginia, so he’s a Southern boy and I’ve really been thinking about what I want the sheriff to sound like.

In one production in the US, the guy really went for like an all shucks kind of voice and that doesn’t seem right.

The UK version of this show, listening to people in the UK attempt to do these accents is hilarious to me.

But the UK version has something closer to the voice I was thinking of.

I’m kind of being inspired a little bit by the sheriff in My Cousin Vinny.

I remember that.

And he again said, I shot the clerk.

And I said, when did you shoot him?

And he said, I shot the clerk.

So I’m thinking about that.

Maybe my sheriff voice is somewhere in here.

I’m not entirely sure.

I don’t want it to be too much, but I also don’t want it to be too little.

I’m fixing to have it be just right.

See what I did there?

You saw.

Anyway, so I’m in that show, sort of, I guess.

I mean, I’m definitely in the show.

Then I go to rehearsal and it’s like, it’s not just the first day of school when you go to rehearsal.

It’s the first day of school and you missed the first week of school because everybody else already knew each other and they’d already been learning stuff.

So I would currently say I am way behind.

Will I catch up?

Yes.

Have I caught up?

No.

I did start my studying today, but man, I am behind.

Ooh.

Okay.

So anyway, that’s it.

I’m in that show.

Bat boy.

If you’re in the New Jersey area, come see that the Vogel in late October.

That’s it.

Uh, you’re the best.

And, uh, I’m going to stop doing this so I can go record the 10 year anniversary episode of the rebound wherever podcasts are sold.

Lex.