#26
Posted: 5/23/11 at 1:43pm
I always cast my high school productions in a traditional manner. Auditions, call-backs, etc. I didn't always have good musical directors, though and there were a few times roles were cast with kids who had trouble singing the music. (One musical director was dumbfounded at the first sing-thru when she learned that the role of Elsa in THE SOUND OF MUSIC sang two songs. "She didn't in the movie," was her comment--and she'd cast a non-singer in the role. Obviously she didn't listen to the recording of the complete score that I'd given her months earlier!)
Now that I've retired, I find so many of the students who have found me on Facebook are effusive in their recollections of the plays and musicals they were in. One woman--who lives in town--wasn't very good at singing but had auditioned for many, many shows. Finally I cast her as The Mute in THE FANTASTICKS and shesays it was the highlight of her high school years.
The one boy that I thought would go on to a career in either theater or radio because he had a deep, rich voice, stunned us all by undergoing a sex-change operation a few years ago.
Now that I've retired, I find so many of the students who have found me on Facebook are effusive in their recollections of the plays and musicals they were in. One woman--who lives in town--wasn't very good at singing but had auditioned for many, many shows. Finally I cast her as The Mute in THE FANTASTICKS and shesays it was the highlight of her high school years.
The one boy that I thought would go on to a career in either theater or radio because he had a deep, rich voice, stunned us all by undergoing a sex-change operation a few years ago.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
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