Backstage at the Pudding

At the Hasty Pudding show, the players enter the dressing room as actors and come out actresses. Simply put, the guys become girls. It all happens backstage, the area of metamorphosis, the place where gender lines blur and men revel in putting on lipstick and brassieres. Of course, this kind of stuff may also occur in the actors' bedrooms, but only at the Pudding can they air themselves out to a large audience. A single stroll through the area behind the curtain would have supplied Freud with more than enough material for several volumes. As it is, the audience can only sit and watch and wonder at these brave young men.