Amanda Rollins is a theatre director who was working on a troubled stage production of the musical Icarus, based on the Greek myth.
History[]
Rollins directs plays and movies inspired by Greek mythological characters such as Pandora and Persephone. Her latest project was the Icarus musical. She worked with producer Evan Korman, who made the decision to hire a sitcom actor, Marc Landry, rather than a trained theatre actor to play the lead role. Landry was not a good singer and didn't take direction from Amanda. His behavior, along with other issues in the production and managing the egos of Korman and others, lead her to drink, breaking her twenty years of sobriety. The production was also troubled from a safety perspective, as a stuntman and another actress had been seriously hurt during a rehearsal.
In spite of the trouble behind-the-scenes, the show opened with a regular audience and a reviewer. Rollins decided to have Landry's driver circle the theatre, pretending to be lost so she could open the play with his understudy, Brice Calder. However, Korman and Amanda's dramaturge, Roger Porter, got Landry to the theatre and he went on to play Icarus. Another accident befell the production, this time in front of the live audience, as Landry's rigging was sabotaged, leading to a deadly fall (like the mythological character he was playing).
Korman had apparently wanted to stop producing the play and the only way to recover the money he and the other investors had put in was through an accident like this. He was revealed to have set this in motion with Porter's help. (CI: "Icarus")