Apples2for10
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My production's Lady Larken: A RantWhen I auditioned for OUAM, we were broken into groups of five, and there was this girl (Sara) in the group that I auditioned with who I thought would've made a great Lady Larken; right look, right voice, just perfect for the part. Well, I get to the first rehearsal and Sara is Princess #12 (which I'm glad for; at least she got a speaking part), while Angela is Larken. Angela looks like she just left rehab, gaunt, pale, sunken-in eyes; the complete opposite of Sara. I haven't heard Angela sing yet, so I can't judge her by her voice yet. I'm not sure why, but this whole casting choice really bothers me, and I wanted to get it off my chest, so thank you for listening.
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PappyCat
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Who cares what she looks like? So long as she isn't horribley disfigured, they can easily makeup her to look like an ingenue.
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Salome
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| PappyCat wrote: | | Who cares what she looks like? So long as she isn't horribley disfigured, they can easily makeup her to look like an ingenue. |
thats the dumbest thing i ever heard.
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blue wind
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you have no idea what she's like! angela could be a beautiful singer, a great actress, and be incredibly nice...
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PappyCat
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| Salome wrote: | | PappyCat wrote: | | Who cares what she looks like? So long as she isn't horribley disfigured, they can easily makeup her to look like an ingenue. |
thats the dumbest thing i ever heard. |
How? You don't have to be standout gorgeous to play Lady Larkin. Pale, sunken in eyes...You can use makeup to make her look different.
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dcrowley
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Hate to break it to you guys, but appearance is rather important in theatre... No one wants to see Rosie O'Donnell playing Juliet.
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Trevor reincarnate
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I do.
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PappyCat
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| dcrowley wrote: | | Hate to break it to you guys, but appearance is rather important in theatre... No one wants to see Rosie O'Donnell playing Juliet. |
Nobody is denying that looks aren't important...But if this girl is pale and has sunken in eyes...and can sing and dance and act, than I don't see why she shouldn't get the part. Makeup can take care of that.
You can't makeup away fat. You can makeup away unattractiveness.
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Lepitot
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The Lady Larken in my production isn't particularly beautiful. She looks like a man because she never wears makeup. But, put her in makeup and do her hair, she's actually pretty. Makeup goes a long way if it's little things like being pale.
If the girl is hideously unnatractive, then she shouldn't have the beautiful romantic lead. But, if she's just slightly homely (which can be fixed with makeup) and is more talented than the prettier girl, I think she should get the part.
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kiwiholly
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It also comes down to what exactly constitutes "hideously unattractive".
I say wait until you've heard/seen her before you let the fact that she was cast bother you. 
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LaurelDP
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Slap some rouge on the bitch and be done with it.
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ConverseSneaker
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Story-telling time!
Ok, when I was auditioning for BATB, we had all casted everyone in our minds before hand. And we thought my friend "Tom" was going to be the Beast because he was six feet tall, large, dark scary acting, would be a perfect Beast and we were right because he pratically made the director cry when he sang If I Can't Love Her. Come cast list time and shockingly, he was casted as GASTON! He was the most unlikey Gastonish person you could imagine. So for pratices, we'd have him wear his costume and force him to be more Gastonish. And by the show, he had dropped about a hundred pounds of fat and was Gaston personfied. He was completely changed.
So long moral story short, let yourself be surprised. You just might be.
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Destined4TheStage
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i think you should give her a chance to show her voice and talents.
there obviously was a reason she got Larken
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PappyCat
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| ConverseSneaker wrote: | Story-telling time!
Ok, when I was auditioning for BATB, we had all casted everyone in our minds before hand. And we thought my friend "Tom" was going to be the Beast because he was six feet tall, large, dark scary acting, would be a perfect Beast and we were right because he pratically made the director cry when he sang If I Can't Love Her. Come cast list time and shockingly, he was casted as GASTON! He was the most unlikey Gastonish person you could imagine. So for pratices, we'd have him wear his costume and force him to be more Gastonish. And by the show, he had dropped about a hundred pounds of fat and was Gaston personfied. He was completely changed.
So long moral story short, let yourself be surprised. You just might be. |
Some guy dropped 100lbs of fat in a 6 week period?
Wow. You guys gave him an eating disorder.
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Apples2for10
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I'm ready to eat my words...I was just a little taken aback by her frailty at first, which ended up being moot because she sings like she's ten feet tall! When I finally heard her sing "In A Little While", I literally got chills!
I feel I need to defend myself. This was a dumb thread to start, and I appreciate all of you putting up with it. As you can see, I'm a little too judgemental for my own good, and I let an obviously great talent's outward appearance bother me, which was wrong. When I was first cast in OUAM, the main thing that excited me was sharing my thoughts with the constants on this board (PappyCat, Brock07, ConverseSneaker, etc.) Please don't think less of me for being superficial.
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PappyCat
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No worries, I make immediate and biased judgements when I first learn the cast of a show all the time.
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ConverseSneaker
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| PappyCat wrote: | | ConverseSneaker wrote: | Story-telling time!
Ok, when I was auditioning for BATB, we had all casted everyone in our minds before hand. And we thought my friend "Tom" was going to be the Beast because he was six feet tall, large, dark scary acting, would be a perfect Beast and we were right because he pratically made the director cry when he sang If I Can't Love Her. Come cast list time and shockingly, he was casted as GASTON! He was the most unlikey Gastonish person you could imagine. So for pratices, we'd have him wear his costume and force him to be more Gastonish. And by the show, he had dropped about a hundred pounds of fat and was Gaston personfied. He was completely changed.
So long moral story short, let yourself be surprised. You just might be. |
Some guy dropped 100lbs of fat in a 6 week period?
Wow. You guys gave him an eating disorder. |
He had started on losing weight months and months earlier but it didn't really show until the month of the show. But yeah, he's like anoxeric now although that may be because of his new college friends now that he is in college.
Oh and Brian, no worries. I also have a tendency to be biased and against people. 
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Set_Buildin_Dad
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No problem Brian. We're a nice anonymous place to vent here. Hope you do use this as a learning experience though.
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