Steve Peebles

And he's ruined his career, he's ruined his life, he's estranged from his daughter, and all he's gotta do is pull it together in this week to do this show, and he does this musketeer sketch where he sings, and he fights with a sword, and he wins his daughter back.

I'm excited!

And I go to meet the music director, who was my contact, and I said, hey, I'm Steve, we talked on the phone.

She said, hey, you're saving my life.

When was the last time you played this role?

I said, no, I just got the script this afternoon.

And she leans in.

She narrows her eyes.

She says, the only reason I got the board to agree to let me hire an actor is I said I would get somebody who had played the part before, so when was the last time you played this part?

And I was like, last summer at my college?

She was like, good answer, let's go meet the director.

So like Alan Swan on the back burner, I've got two hallways to figure out how to play Steve Peebles, who has totally played Alan Swan before, but can't do any of the things associated with having played that part.

So I meet the director.

We go over some scheduling.

He's like, is there anything you want to change from like the way that you did it in your last production?

And I was like, no, this guy's good.

I want to respect his choices.

And...

And the fight choreographer is like, how are you with a sword?

And it's like, in my production, we did it with daggers, which is not a good lie for a musketeer fighting play.