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Would This Steam You, Too?
Mr. Tuttle
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#25re: Would This Steam You, Too?
Posted: 7/21/07 at 3:25pm
This si the funniest and stupidest thread all rolled into one.
I'M AN ALTO DAMN IT. FEEL MY POWER.
Ignorance is temporary. Stupidity last forever.
Watch out BWW...
HE'S BACK.
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#26re: Would This Steam You, Too?
Posted: 7/21/07 at 3:38pm
I'd understand if they'd cast an alto with a nice upper register, but why cast someone if she can't even sing the entire role?
Can you belt as well as sing soprano?
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
tinkerscanne
Featured Actor Joined: 6/2/07
#27re: Would This Steam You, Too?
Posted: 7/21/07 at 3:46pm
I was willing to take any role - Hope, Little Sally, ensemble. I know the creative team at the theatre. I was in Man of La Mancha last season as Antonia, so I know what I'm capable of as does the creative team. The director is new to this theatre and what was explained to me was that the director makes the final call, no matter what the board recommends.
I have some footage of me singing several different pieces from legit to contemporary to pop. I know that I have the chops to be in a show. I don't know why I was not cast - neither do my friends who were NOT going to do the show because I wasn't asked to be in it. I'm not saying I am the greatest soprano who has ever graced a stage - hardly, but I heard all the vocal auditions and, as someone who has directed 15+ shows, I didn't think she had the chops to cut ANY role. But, her mother was the accompanist for the auditions so perhaps there was a deal made between mommy and director....
But I'm not "angry" just disappointed, which is allowed, correct?
And my "Diva in Training" outfit is at the dry cleaners....
#28re: Would This Steam You, Too?
Posted: 7/21/07 at 4:44pmThere are two local community theatres that won't ask me back to direct because I refused to play their politics. I did something novel--I had the nerve to cast the right people in the right roles regardless of their connections to the theatre! Sorry to hear about your experience.
#29re: Would This Steam You, Too?
Posted: 7/21/07 at 8:32pm
Key words, COMMUNITY THEATER. That is a bit unfair though.
Updated On: 7/21/07 at 08:32 PM
rock00
Understudy Joined: 4/1/04
#30re: Would This Steam You, Too?
Posted: 7/21/07 at 8:53pm
"The part of Hope went to a girl who is an alto. An ALTO. Obviously, she must know the director because Hope is a soprano."
Yes, obviously anyone who beats you out for a part got it because they know someone.
Oh, brother...
Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around...
#31re: Would This Steam You, Too?
Posted: 7/21/07 at 9:32pm
I know it's tough to deal with at first. But the sooner you stop looking at it this way, the better off you'll be. Casting is not about fair. It's not about who deserves the part. It's not even about who you think is "right" for the part.
What it is about, politics aside, is what the director thinks is right for his vision of what the part should be. And the big point here is that you can never, ever, ever be inside his head to know what that is. So second guessing these decisions is just an upsetting excercise in futility. For all you know, his vision for the part is the girl with really big ears because he thinks that will add humor to the part. Or maybe he thinks blue eyes are important, or he wants a more masculine girl, or has a quirkier style of singing.
Bottom line, you can't make it about you and your talent and fairness or you'll die in this business. Really practice walking away and letting it go and looking at it as one step in the process as opposed to a personal talent judgement/comparison. Immediatley go into the "what's next" mode.
You're going out there a youngster, Peggy Tinker, but you've got to come back a star!
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.
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