Optional Commentary Track?

I'm making a DVD of a 90 minute play. I'd like to record a commentary track that the DVD end user could turn on or off as they wish when they watch the play. Is that possible through iDVD? If not, does anyone have an idea of how to go about getting that done? Thanks!

........that the DVD end user could turn on or off......
I'm not even sure I could do that with DVDSP (part of FCS 2). It might be possible with apple's pro apps but I'm not 100% certain. I'll have to do some searching and post back later.
I do know DVDSP allows for subtitles on a video track but I'm not sure if this will help your cause either.
A possibility (without having to use Dvdsp) might be to make two identical movies with the exception of adding a commentary track on the second /duplicate movie. That way the end user could select which movie s/he wishes to view directly from the menu which you could identify as such. You'd have to add each movie separately to the existing iDvd project as an independent QT movie for each version of the presentation.
But given the 90 min. length, you'd be forced into using dual layer. That or make a disc image to the desktop and then use Roxio Toast (Fit to Dvd) option to burn the image to a single layer Dvd.
If I were attempthing this with i-apps only the workflow would look something like ......
Make my 2 separate QT movies within iM6 => iDvd'08 => disc image to the desktop => Roxio Toast (Fit to Dvd) to make one single layer Dvd-R (using verbatim or maxell and lowering the burn speed to 4x or lower).
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