A modern Don Quixote takes the stage
It takes a while before you realize that Norman Bray's entire life is a performance, staged mostly for an audience of one himself. Norman fancies himself a fine stage actor, but the only gig he's had in years is as the voice of the lead character in a cartoon called Timmy Taxi, and we meet him on the day that the producers of that show have decided to ease him out of that role. Norman is too proud, too full of himself, to take a demotion to another role, too wrapped up in his own excellence, to realize that his 56-year-old voice no longer hits the little boy tones needed for the show.
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