Director Bryan Hurd has selected the cast for “Bullshot Crummond,” with community theater actors Joe Moye playing the title role as the farcical detective hero and Sean Measles as the villainous master spy, Otto von Bruno.

“Bullshot” marks the third production in The Acting Company’s 2002 season.

“Like these walls. Can we keep them?” the amiable Hurd inquired as he arrived for the “Bullshot” rehearsal. A stage crew was still finishing off last minute preparations for “Bugsy Malone Jr.”

While imagining the ambiance and uses of the abstract –glow-in-the-dark skyline “Bugsy” set decorators had painted on the side walls of the 50-seat theater, Hurd sketched out the “Bullshot” cast.

Jennifer Gage will play Bullshot’s prim love interest, Rosemary, while Ellie Palmer will portray von Bruno’s the seductive sidekick, Lenya.

Skip Morgan was tapped to play “Algernon,” and “all other characters,” as the credits in the original – take a deep breath -- Ron House, Diz White, John Neville-Andrews, Alan Sherman and Derek Cunningham production.

“Bullshot” first surfaced in the late 1970s, or thereabouts, as the joint creation of the above-listed actor-writers. It has since been an oft-produced number frequently seen on dinner theater has been a popular menu-topper at dinner theaters.

It was picked up by Handmade Films, a British film company backed by late Beatle George Harrison and turned into a movie of moderate success. It can be found through video rental services.

A videotape of an early production by the original cast is also to be had with a little searching around.

The plot is simple enough: Monocled spy and lusty sidekick crash land in England with a view to stealing the secret weapon from a dotty scientist. When Dottie scientist is seized and imprisoned in his home castle, prim and repressed Rosemary turns to acutely gentlemanly and preposterously dumb-but-lucky English hero Bullshot for help – and who could fail to get it up for an lady in distress, so to speak.

Algernon, Bullshot’s own sidekick, has the actors’ dream role of playing several different characters including the Alzheimer’s Moment scientist, an oblivious Bobbie and a much put-upon waiter in one of the play’s funniest sequences.

Also look for the quick-change act von Bruno-cum-Chicago hitman puts on, as shown in the videotape of the original cast production. It was a tour de force there, and could be here.

“Bullshot Crummond is scheduled to open at TAC, 815 B Street, Yuba City, Sept. 13 and run weekends through Oct. 6.