The smell of the greasepaint, the roar of the crowd... She's the off-off-Broadway actress who lives, eats, sleeps, and breathes for the magic of the theatre. To feed her obsession, the long list of her resume is peppered with exploratory workshops, experimental immersions, and murder mystery dinner theater, no job is too small or too fringe to fail giving her a hit. But like every other board treader, her dream is to make it to the great white way. He's one of the stars of a turbo-charged tv series, in which he plays the lovable redneck goofball with the dimwit quips. The fanbase is strong and the checks are good, but it's not the kind of work he once studied the craft to do. He presses his agent to find him a between seasons hiatus project of a higher caliber to prove to the acting world (and to himself) that he's capable of more. That turns out to be an off-Broadway modernized staging of Our Mutual Friend. He fights for and wins the role of the rebirthed John, to the consternation of the theater community - Most aggrieved of all is his Bella. A firm believer in the purest form of the medium and condemner of its screened imitators, damning them flat and soulless, she hates that the step stool to her dream has been hitched to a famous fraud. She walks into rehearsals expecting she'll need to teach him how it's really done lest they ever make it through previews, but he ends up surprising her, on and off the stage.
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