This is kinda funny. The infamous Dame Edna is about to open in a new Broadway show — kind of an evening with Dame Edna and Michael Feinstein. This morning, they held auditions for Dame Edna's understudy and the job went to a gent named Scott Mason.
No one expects Mr. Mason will ever go on in the role but he'll be listed in the program book and maybe he'll get a few bucks out of it. If I were running this operation, I think what I'd do is send Mason out every night after the show in costume to sign autographs at the stage door. And while he's doing that, Barry Humphries — who plays Dame Edna for real — will be able to slip out unnoticed.