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Dallas Opera Calling for Pectoral Muscles Not Singing Chops


by Jerome Weeks 7 Oct 2010 3:03 PM

It’s not a joke, they tell us. But the production of Donizetti’s ‘Anna Bolena’ (aka Anne Boleyn — as in Henry VIII’s second, short-lived wife) could use a couple of muscular fellows willing to be bare-chested onstage at the Winspear beginning Oct. 29. No singing necessary.

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Suzanne Calvin, the PR director of the Dallas Opera, says it’s not a joke. She passed along this e-mail from their production staff:

The director of Anna Bolena is looking for two (2) well-defined muscular men of impressive size to be two stags with antlers wrestling onstage shirtless and barefoot.  Does anyone have someone they could recommend?  We need them ASAP!

Tai C. Renfrow

Production Assistant

214.443.1037

[email protected]

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About Jerome Weeks

Jerome Weeks is the Senior Arts Reporter/Producer for KERA. Previously at The Dallas Morning News, he was the book columnist for 10 years and the drama critic for 10 years before that. His writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, American Theatre and Men’s Vogue magazines. View more about Jerome Weeks.

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