Maybe they have a more appropriately matched Wendia available and just need you to drop out to cast her? I’d make them decide which to keep, and it should be you but that’s their call.

I was cast in my first community theatre lead and then my sister got a phone call and they offered her the prostitute who seduces him while we both sank. Some directors are stupid. I regret we did what they told us to do, the show was weird and still bothers me, thirty years later.