<p>The timing of this thread getting resurrected is personally funny for me. Anyone who has read the thread knows my position and views on the appropriateness of “controversial” roles for students serious about theater, including roles involving homosexuality and lesbianism.</p>
<p>I had dinner with my daughter (who is a freshman MT student) last night and she was filling me in on auditions and call backs she had for the spring shows at her school. Of the 6 call backs she had, 2 of them involved roles as a lesbian in a work based on Gertrude Stein’s “Lifting Belly” and the call backs required her to passionately kiss 2 other young ladies. A third call back required her to play the role of a prostitute in a show being put together by Edd Kalehoff and Andrea McArdle. It was all I could do to keep from choking on my food from laughter as she described to me the call backs and I flashed back to this thread.</p>
<p>Karma, ain’t it grand ! 
It will be interesting to see what she learns from the experience if she gets any of those roles.</p>