Type Casting — Page 2

I usually get the innocent, sweet girls, too. I did, however, get to play a really sarcastic high schoool age girl who was a lot of fun to play. She was kind of like my strange inner child.
I wish I had dance lessons. I want to be Velma Kelly. Bad. Or Peggy Sawyer.
I also got put in the chorus a lot.

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ok well i dont know if you would call this "type-casting" but for the past two musicals that ive been in ive been the teen dancer role. Tommy Djilas in Music Man and Hugo Peabody in Bye Bye Birdie. and i take it as a COMPLETE compliment. i love dancing and ive worked my butt of for it so when i get a dancing role loooove it. so i say thank God for type-casting

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eh.... i now know differently. :-p

haha type casting sucks sometimes and helps sometimes, not gonna lie. im 5'5' but "tiny" as says my theatre teachers, so i am typically ingenue. However i like using a crazy crazy crazy belt instead of soft, sweet high stuff. I just found out that there are 2 different ingenues.... contemporary, who is able to use that kind of voice mized in with a mix-voice... and then the classical ingenue. i am definitely not that.


i have no idea how that will help me.. so i guess to answer your question, im not sure yet!!! :-p

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I can usually call what part I'm going to get.

I'm always the old(er) person. I was Grandma Tzietel, Arvide Abernathy and currently I am Vi Moore. It's understandable because I am a big girl so I expect it now.

It's okay. Of course I want to be the main lead sometimes but I have to remind myself to be happy for myself.

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I agree, although unfortunately type casting has ways of working out for the best. I'm the most type cast person I know. I have golden blonde hair, big blue eyes, am under 5'4, and have a high soprano voice. Of course, I plan on going into opera and not musical theater, but currently I pretty much only get to do Cosette/Christine Daae and occasionally Julie Jordan over and over again. Only once was I cast completely out of type as Rose in the Secret Garden. I didn't have the range (mezzo/alto) or look (too young), but they gave it to me because I was the only one who could come off mean enough (this from the ingenue...). So I guess sometimes it can come down to talent.... Sadly I think the audience, for the most part, would be kinda upset if it weren't type cast despite the actors talent.

Secretly, though, I've always wanted to be in one of those kids shows like 'Annie' where I could belt my heart out and be completely un 'ingenue' like....

This isn't really type casting, but acting teachers I've had in the past tend to give me monologues by powerful, Renaissance-era female characters.