"Obviously she's hilarious," Lee said.

Haskins and Forkner gave Lee credit for conceiving the original idea for the play.

The trio of authors submitted their script to the Pudding Saturday, and it was accepted Sunday.

Hasty Pudding officers are already searching for professionals to do the costumes and technical work for the play, which is usually performed 40 times in Cambridge before going on spring tour.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced last spring it had reached a deal to acquire the Hasty Pudding Building from the Institute of 1770, the theatrical group's parent organization.

Details of that deal have yet to be worked out, but Pudding members said yesterday that they are confident the ongoing negotiations will not affect the play's schedule.

"We've been assured we're going to be in the Hasty Pudding theater," Forkner said

The company will choose actors in late November, and the Pudding plans to open the play in its Holyoke Street building on Feb. 15, 2001.