Lincoln Center Theater 2026-2027 Season — Page 3

I'm going to post every where I can on this topic to say that if we can cast anyone as Maria - we can start to remove the one allowed discriminatory practice in casting and remove height limits for kids for the casting of the CHILDREN.

Let's cast the best singers and actors PERIOD based on TALENT, not height and appearance. I am so sick of  seeing talented kids excluded from calls becuse of their height (and sometimes weight). Beaches, looking at you. 

Let's find the most talented Von Trapp kids in the world-period. That will truly be a vision I can get behind. 

 

Updated On: 6/23/26 at 06:32 PM

It wouldn’t bother me at all if the Von Trapp kids were of different races. But if they ‘re all six feet tall, well, obviously, THAT would be a problem.

I think casting a woman of color in a show set around the rise of Nazism in late 30's Austria is kind of odd.

It is a weirder contrast when you notice that the August Wilson play is being done in the basement...I really expected Seven Guitars was going to be a Broadway production based on recent commitments to restaging Wilson on Broadway by the estate

^ ok (shrug) thanks for chimming in

jazzicat said: "I'm going to post every where I can on this topic to say that if we can cast anyone as Maria - we can start to remove the one allowed discriminatory practice in casting and remove height limits for kids for the casting of the CHILDREN.

Let's cast the best singers and actors PERIOD based on TALENT, not height and appearance. I am so sick ofseeing talented kids excluded from calls becuse of their height (and sometimes weight). Beaches, looking at you.

Let's find the most talented Von Trapp kids in the world-period. That will truly be a vision I can get behind.

I hear they’re looking for a 6 foot tall 300 lb Gretl. 

BoringBoredBoard40 said: "I think casting a woman of color in a show set around the rise of Nazism in late 30's Austria is kind of odd.
 

Odd because women of color didn’t exist during late 30’s Austria during the rise of Nazism…? 

I think Maria being a convent girl without any mention of determinate birth or origin gives more credence that anyone could play her (and while she is based on a real person, the musical is obviously fictionalized with many factual details changed).