Type Casting- Page 2

[peggyandvelma]

Posted: 2/9/06 at 3:40pm

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.

[MamaCita06]

Posted: 2/9/06 at 4:19pm

type casting USED TO make me feel really uncomfortable... but it has also gotten me some of the best roles i could ask for (i'm a busty african american) and if i DIDN'T like it... i wouldn't want to do this for the rest of my life ;D

[triplethreat101]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 10:39pm

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

[triplethreat]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 10:11am

oh i absolutely hate type casting! but it could help you in some way! but i don't think you have to look like idina Menzel to play Elphaba on Wicked!

[LiLMuNkEe22]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 10:29am

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

[dramaqueen2]

Posted: 2/17/06 at 9:46pm

type-casting can be your best friend and worst nightmare. i'm a character actress as well, and often times i feel i'm put into roles before i even audition! sometimes it's okay, because i got a lead in my last show, so it's all good, though sometimes i wish they'd give me a chance at other roles..
but whatever i get, i'm always grateful for even being cast, because my high school is HUGE and the theatre department is especially competitive, so it's tough. but i take what i get!

[noloversfool]

Posted: 3/2/06 at 3:16pm

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.

[ldysngsthbls]

Posted: 3/2/06 at 3:59pm

I am a character actress through and through. There are two categories of roles that I usually get. The eccentric mother role and the eccentric ethnic role. The latter is interesting because I am a short, heavy, caucasian non dancer. Past roles Ive played in the eccentric mother group are Jacks Mother in Into the Woods, Mrs Baskin in Big:The musical, Mrs Macafee in Birdie and Rose in Gypsy.. Some of the roles Ive played in the Ethnic group (and most of my favorites) are Asaka in Once on this Island, The Sour Kangaroo in Seussical, and Joanne in Godspell.

Im not counting on getting any kind of romantic leads any time soon. Im okay with it though..

[KateBway]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 5:51pm

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....

[triplethreat101]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 7:21pm

hey if it gets u cast it gets u cast. and thats what we really want right??

[Zyla]

Posted: 3/10/06 at 9:02pm

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.