[musikal_geek]

With the permission of Aimee, I shall be directing a Forum Cast of Once Upon a Mattress.

For those of you who don't know what a Forum Cast is, it is basically a virtual cast of a production, with Musicals.Net users as the cast. Of course, it is never performed, recorded, or anything, but people do get to make banners for their signatures so that everyone knows who’s who. In this forum cast, people talk about themselves and nominate themselves for a character from the show (in this thread) and then everybody PM’s their votes to me. I tally up the votes and I announce the cast also on this thread. Then everybody goes and makes cool banners and has bragging rights!

The deadline for auditions is on December 21, 2007 (two weeks from now). Between December 22, and December 29, the votes will be sent in. The tallying begins on December 29, and the cast list should be up some time within the week. Any votes sent in after December 29, 2007 will not be counted.

Here are the rules for participating in this Forum Cast:
1. If you do not want to participate or think that Forum Casts are boring, etc., then please leave this thread. I always love doing these and I know other people do, too. It is a great way to get to know the people around you, and we always have lots of fun.

2. You cannot vote for yourself. If you vote for yourself, all of your votes will be disqualified.

3. Kind of in relation to #2, you cannot cast your votes until you have been registered for 45 days (unless you auditioned). I made this rule because in the past, people have started accounts to vote for themselves. I want this to be as fair as possible, so that's why the rule is enforced. NOTE: This rule is not applicable to those who auditioned. If you did not audition, then you cannot cast your votes until you have been registered for 45 days. I want this to be fair, and it ruins it if someone starts an account to vote for themselves.

4. If you are going to cast votes, please cast a vote for every character. You can’t very well have a show with only a few of the characters included. Keep in mind that you cast your votes via PM.

5. Please do not cast votes until December 22, 2007. Even if people haven’t auditioned for a few days, there still might be other people who would like to audition. Things need to be as fair as possible, so the only votes accepted will be the ones sent during the days I have asked.

6. If there is a tie for a role, I will simply draw names from a hat.

7. If less than 10 roles have been "auditioned" for by December 18, the casting will be cancelled.

8. If a person is cast in more than one role, one of the roles will be given to the runner-up (unless we don’t have enough people for each role).

9. Whoever has the 2nd most votes for each character will be cast as the understudy.

10. If someone is not cast in a major role, they will automatically be in the chorus so that everyone ends up with a part no matter what.

11. You can audition for as many roles as you want, but keep in mind that you will only end up with one, and maybe an understudy (providing that all the other roles you auditioned for are filled).

12. You cannot audition for a character that you do not share a gender with. Can you imagine a guy playing Lady Larken? This means that the Minstrel, Jester, and Wizard will NOT be played by women like they sometimes are in community theatre. The only exception goes to The Nightingale of Samarkand - I don't think the gender is ever specified, so I will accept votes for males and females.

13. Please, if you can take the time to audition, you can take the time to vote. I know that it takes a little bit of time to do that, but I have spent a TON of time putting this together, so I would appreciate some support. No votes = no cast. Plain and simple.

14. When you vote, please put some thought into what name goes with what character. If you just look at my character list below and put any name beside the characters, it could very well end up that someone who put a sentence or two for why they deserve the role wins the role over someone who wrote paragraphs.

15. It’s very cliché, but please – have fun! Don’t take things too seriously. The show will never be done in any form at any time, so don’t make a fuss if you’re not cast in the role(s) you wanted, or for any other reason.

[Lepitot]

[mastachen]

I guess I'll be the first to audition:


Username: mastachen

Character: King Sextimus

Why I deserve this role: I am awesome at not talking and having women walk all over me. Um, I always thought the king should be somewhat harmless although he has wandering eyes for women, yet intelligent, and by that standard I think I qualify.



Don't I look harmless?

And I DO have wandering eyes! I like to stare

[Apples2for10]

Screen Name: Apples2for10
Characters to Audition For: Prince Dauntless
Why I deserve this role: Dauntless and I are alike in many ways. We're both looking for the right girl wherever and whenever we can, we're both generally well-liked by everyone we know, and we both have extremely annoying and meddling mothers.

[jessiemil42]

Username: Jessiemil42
Character: Princess Winnifred
Why I deserve this role: I found, through playing Winnifred onstage, that she and I are truly alike. Except for the whole princess thing, her and I don't miss an opportunity to be loud and all over the place. We are both ridiculously clumsy, and even though we can be a tad annoying, everyone loves us anyway!

[ConverseSneaker]

Screen Name: ConverseSneaker
Characters to Audition For: Lady Larken, Winnifred, Nightingale of Samarkand, Lady Rowena, Princess #12
Why I deserve this role:

Lady Larken-in about one week, I'll be auditioning for her, and I think she is a great role. The great thing about her is that she's a caricature of your typical fairytale damsel, but she's not acting like that for laughs, but because she belives like that. (for those who don't get what I'm saying, watch Amy Adams in Enchanted!) plus she gets to chose between the Minstrel and Harry!

Winnifred-who wouldn't want to be Fred? She's confident despite being Shy, she wants her Happily Ever After, and gets it, but she doesn't obey the traditional way of getting it. What girl wouldn't want to be strong enough to get thier own prince and happiness?

Nightingale-She's a pretty singing bird! How awesome is that?

Lady Rowena-Now she looks like a fun role to play. She, Merril and Lucille remind me of the Silly Girls, in a not as silly way. Having been a Silly Girl, I know how much fun it is to be a threesome.

Princess #12-I feel so bad for her. She probably would have been a great princess for Dauntless and have made the Queen happy if Aggravain hadn't been so determined to rig the test and keep her son all to herself.

[wicked_diva]

Screen name:wicked_diva


Characters to audition for: Princess Winnifred, Queen Aggravain, Lady Rowena


Why I deserve these roles:

Winnifred: I feel like I am very like the character - I'm not at all the typical Princess type, I can be very loud and awkward, but I still wish I could live the fairytale life.

Queen Aggravain: I can be very bossy and demanding, and again with the loud thing. I'm also a born leader, according to my mom and friends.

Lady Rowena: I've played her before, and she's a fun role. She's sort of the leader of the other ladies, and I have a lot of leadership qualities.

[wicked_boy]

Just dropping by to say break a leg everyone!

[musikal_geek]

[wicked_boy]

[Lepitot]

[PappyCat]

And it's a FABULOUS show!

[musikal_geek]

[PappyCat]

I will, I just am waiting a bit, until I have more time to write it out!

[musikal_geek]

Screen Name: musikal_geek
Characters to Audition For: Prince Dauntless, The Jester
Why I Deserve These Roles:

Prince Dauntless: Prince Dauntless has always had a special place in my heart, because he was the first lead role I've ever had. He is such a fun character. We're the same on many levels. We both are very childish, but in good ways - there is a certain innocence about him that is just so appealing as a character. He has a great song that I sing all the time, and Dauntless is such a fun character!

The Jester: When I was little, I wanted to be a Court Jester when I grew up... that dream ended after I realized what the real world is like! I LOVE to clown around, and I don't love anything more than making people smile and laugh - hapiness is such an important part of life, even if it's just a chuckle from watching a goofball perform. Making people happy is what I'm all about. This particular Jester also happens to have the best song in the show! The Jester is a dream role of mine, and I would be honored to "play" him in this Forum Cast!

I would be forever grateful for any votes cast for me, and good luck to everyone!

[Brock07]

Screen Name - Brock07
Roles - Prince Dauntless, King Sextimus, Sir Harry, Jester, Minstral, Wizard, Sir Studly

Dauntless - I feel similar to him in many ways. Throughout school, my girl friends were just never good enough for my mother and she would always try to find a way between us. I also feel that while at times, I'm not the brightest crayon in the box, I have a heart of gold and that's what matters.

Sextimus - OOOO LADIES!!! hahaha I love women and sometimes have difficulty "finding the words" to tell them how I really feel.

Harry - I feel that I am like Harry in the fact that I don't run away from my problems. I work as hard as I can to find a solution and fix the problem. His love for Larkin, in spite of everything they face, is so inspiring. Even after they have their argument, he continues to love her more and more, and I just hope that one day I can find a woman who makes me feel like that.

Jester - I love making people laugh. I thrive on laughter, to the point that in my past shows, if people didn't laugh at my jokes, I would get a bit flustered and would have to find a new way to engage this new audience. Running around doing dumb tricks would be an ideal career for me, considering that's what I do now anyway.

Minstral - I've been known to randomly break out into song and sing stories to people. Sounds like a minstral to me.

Studly - I'm a stud. Enough said.

Vote for me!!!! Thanks!

[wicked_boy]

Luc, give me like, a couple days to do my research and I'll audition.

Pinky promise.

[musikal_geek]

I'm really excited about this... second day of auditions and only three roles are empty!!

Keep 'em coming, guys!

[monkeychick]

Screen Name:monkeychick
Characters to Audition For:Nightingale
Why I deserve this role: I don't realy know anything about this play but it sounds lick fun. I would want to be nightingale because I love to sing.

[Beagle On Stage]

Screen Name: Beagle
Characters to Audition For: Dauntless, Harry, and the Minstrel
Why I deserve this role:

DAUNTLESS: I've done the role more than once, and I've won awards for it both times. In all honesty, if you had to choose someone that you could most trust to be capable of performing the role, it would be me. I say that not to be a bitch but because it is statistically correct.

HARRY and MINSTREL: I have the goods for both of these roles. I am blessed with the legit tenor voice for either. I'm sexy, which you would ideally want to have in both roles (I'm also one of the few men who can actually pull off wearing the tights that the show seems to demand). I even have the medieval-looking goatee that looks so perfect on either character.

And besides, I made the vocal range thread, so I feel entitled. Like when someone buys all new seats for a theatre, and then you have to cast them for the rest of their lives. Just kidding. But not really.

[BroadwayObssessed]

k, I'll give this a shot...

Screen name: BroadwayObssessed
Charactor to audition for: Winnifred
Why:
I think I'm a lot like Winnifred. I think I'm really shy,and some people think that too, but people I know (mostly my friends) think I'm kind of obnoxois and really funny. I'm quite clumsy, and I can very easily make people laugh. I'm a very anxious person who dreams of a happily ever after. But in the long run, I'm a really easy going girl, who is fun to be around.

[Lady'sMaid]

Screen Name: Lady'sMaid
Character's to Audition for: Lady Larkin, Princess #12
Why I deserve This Role:
Lady Larkin: I love the sweet love story that her and Sir Harry have, and I think it's just the kind character I love to play, sweet, caring, but conflicted.
Princess #12: I think this is one of the greatest cameo characters to play. She gets to speak, she gets a name, and when I did the show, the girl who played her is one of my favorite actresses I've worked with, and I'd love to play the part as well. Just a ditsy, fun, hopeful young girl!

[BroadwayBeast]

Screen Name: Broadwaybeast
Characters to Audition For: The Jester
Why I deserve this role: Cause I am funny as hell! Plus, I am a dancer, and I have an old style broadway voice, which when i think of the Jester, Id like to have him sing "Very Soft Shoes" in an Al Jolson type of voice!

[wicked_boy]

I know this audition is a bit weak, but I don't know anythnig about the show other than what it says on wiki. At least I tried.

Screen Name: wicked_boy
Characters to Audition For: The Jester
Why I deserve this role: Because I've neverp layed a funny role, ever. It's my time to do a bit of comedy. And I'm good at lieing, (he lies to the Wizard right???)

[dcrowley]

Screen Name: dcrowley
Character I am auditioning for... Sir Harry

Why I deserve the role... I have just finished playing sir Harry and loved the role. I am also attractive, brave, and very modest.

[Trevor reincarnate]

Hi my name is Trevor and I am auditioning for the role of Prince Dauntless. I will be singing "I'm Not That Smart" from Spelling Bee for you tonight.

Cast me because I'm playing it IRL and I'm awesome.

[PappyCat]

Screen Name: PappyCat

Characters to Audition For: Princess Winnifred!

Why I deserve this role: First off, Once Upon a Mattress is my favorite musical, and Fred is my favorite roll. I played her this past spring, which was ridiculously fun.

I think I'm a lot of what Fred is. She's this princess that doesn't act or look like a princess at all, yet people grow to really like her. I don't let my size or appearance stop me from doing anything, or prevent me from auditioning for roles whose body type I might not stereotypically fit. She doesn’t let her unladylikeness stop her from being a princess. She knows she is fabulous and she lets that spring forth from her! I like to think that I give off that sort of confidence. I’ve been told that I’m very over the top and sometimes I think I’m overly confident. The main difference between Fred and myself is that parents generally really like me.

When I auditioned for OUAM this past spring, I didn't think I was getting it at all. I was shooting for a Lady in Waiting just because I love being in shows. I was beyond shocked when the director called to ask me to play Fred. This was my first show since high school, where I had continuously gotten stuck with supporting roles that didn't sing much. Everyone knew that I was the girl who was a good actor, but only a mediocre singer. Fred represents having someone, a director none the less, believe that I could sing, believe that I had the talent to help move the show. It was also the first time my parents told me that they believed that I could do this for a living. I got a really awesome reaction from the audience, I still have people coming up to me and telling me they saw the show. It was a wonderful experience for me. Fred really represents that for me.


Pictures:



During Happily Ever After



Backstage after "Shy"





Just fun pictures.

[Brock07]

I need a story about that last one.... lol

[PappyCat]

Biggest Buffalo statue in the united states in North Dakota. I wasn't planning on putting that one up, but it made me laugh so hard coming across it again that I couldn't help it. Lol.

[wicked_boy]

I love you PappyCat. You must be sooooooo much fun to be around.

[musikal_geek]

Alright kiddies, tomorrow is the last day of auditions!

[wicked_boy]

[PappyCat]

Break a leg, everyone!

[Apples2for10]

^ Here, here; best of luck!

[Lepitot]

Screen Name: Lepitot
Characters to Audition For: Prince Dauntless

Why I deserve this role: Once Upon a Mattress was my first lead role, and I owned it. I'm very similiar to dauntless. Plus, my big cheeks are perfect for Mamma to squeeze when she's babying me. I also have the perfect voice (speaking wise) for Dauntless. In all honestly, everything about me is Dauntless.

Picture:

[musikal_geek]

Alright!!
That's the last of auditions. Everyone, please send in your PM's with your votes to me!!

You have until Saturday!

[PappyCat]

Wooo!

[musikal_geek]

Hey, Pappy... psssssst! Over PM, please!

I will still accept them, though.

[musikal_geek]

Important Reminders:

[PappyCat]

Crap! I totally thought I hit the PM button! LAME!

Sorry, everyone!

[wicked_boy]

[PappyCat]

I hope everyone is voting!

[Joshua]

[musikal_geek]

[mastachen]

[ConverseSneaker]

^She didn't delete it, Pappy edited the post.




Right?

[BroadwayObssessed]

I'm really excited! ^_^

*is a dork*

[PappyCat]

Yeah, I just edited it to say "Wooo!"

I, too, am excited! It's great to see some posting on this board in general. One of my favorites and it isn't frequented often.

[musikal_geek]

*has the cast list finished*
*reads it again to himself*
*sees others watching*
*runs away laughing*

[mastachen]

If you have it already, why don't you just release it?

[musikal_geek]

Because... technically, no one should know who is who in the show yet, since voting is open until Saturday the 29th. But it appears that the voting has stopped. I made the mistake in The Lion King of changing the dates according to the speed of the process. One person ended up auditionless (who was just planning on auditioning later), and I felt terrible. So I promised myself that, no matter what happened during this show, I would stick to my original set dates. It keeps everyone less confused, and it keeps me more organized.

[wicked_boy]

How long left untill we find out?

[Lepitot]

Can I still vote?

I always leave these things until the last minute. It's how I operate lol.

I fully intended on voting tomorrow lol.

[BroadwayObssessed]

[musikal_geek]

[PappyCat]

Rawr, I want to know!

[Lepitot]

For some reason I thought tomorrow was the last day...

*goes to make cast list*

[musikal_geek]

THANKS, LEPPY. SCREW UP MY TALLY, WHY DONCHA?!?!



Just kidding. You actually voted for all of the winners, minus one character.

[BroadwayObssessed]

[musikal_geek]

[pish123c]

[BroadwayObssessed]

[PappyCat]

What about "Lep Dance," eh?

I'm super excited! I liked how we couldn't vote for ourselves! Yay!

[musikal_geek]

[PappyCat]

Everyone will wonder if they lost by ONE vote, lol.

[musikal_geek]

Maybe I should post it now, seeing as I'm bored and all...

[Joshua]

Wait. I'm contemplating voting since my previous ones were rejected and all that sort of thing.

[musikal_geek]

Contemplate faster, granny!

If you're gonna vote, it has to be tonight. First thing tomorrow I'll be posting the list, so it's now or never... let me know!

[Joshua]

Check your PMs grandpa!

[BroadwayBeast]

C'mon, just post it! * gives puppy eyes*

[PappyCat]

Ooooh, please post!

[musikal_geek]

I was only teasing! I'll post it tomorrow morning.


REASON #1: Family's going hot-tubbing. Right now.
REASON #2: Even though the list itself is done, I would like to say a few things in the same post, so it will take a little bit of time to write it all out.
REASON #3: I promised myself I would stay true to my dates! Haha

So I'll see you guys tomorrow morning... bright and early!

[PappyCat]

Lame!





Just kidding... I'll be checking!

[wicked_boy]

I'll just be in the chorus, my audition was LAME.

[Joshua]

Bright and early, eh? It's almost noon here.

[BroadwayObssessed]

[Joshua]

[musikal_geek]

Once Upon a Mattress - Forum Cast List of 2007
Note - the number beside each name represents the number of votes received for that role.

Princess Winnifred the Woebegone
Pappy Cat (3)
U/S BroadwayObssessed (3), ConverseSneaker (2)

Prince Dauntless the Drab
Apples2for10 (2)
U/S musikal_geek (4), Lepitot (2)
(I had more votes for Jester than I did for Dauntless, so even though I had most votes out of the Dauntless auditions, I was cast as an understudy. I drew from a hat to declare the official Dauntless, and the other understudy.)

Lady Larken
ConverseSneaker (6)
U/S Lady'sMaid (4)

Sir Harry
dcrowley (8 )
U/S Beagle On Stage (1), Brock07 (1)

Queen Aggravain
wicked_diva (All Votes)

King Sextimus the Silent
mastachen (8 )
Brock07 (2)

The Wizard
Brock07 (All Votes)

The Jester
musikal_geek (6)
U/S BroadwayBeast (4)

The Minstrel
Beagle On Stage (7)
U/S Brock07 (3)

Princess #12
Lady'sMaid (7)
U/S ConverseSneaker (2)

Lady Rowena
jessimil42 (1)
U/S wicked_diva (8 )
(Wicked_diva was already cast as a lead, with more votes for Aggravain than Rowena, so she was cast as the understudy for Rowena)

The Nightingale of Samarkand
Monkeychick (7)
U/S ConverseSneaker (2)

Sir Studley
wicked_boy

Lady Mabelle or Lady Lucille
BroadwayObssessed

Ensemble
BroadwayBeast, Lady'sMaid, Monkeychick


Before everyone congratulates each other, begins making banners and all Hell breaks loose, I have a few things I would like to say as your director.

First off, I did something a little bit different this show – I actually cast people in roles that they never auditioned for. Those two people were Ashlynne (BroadwayObssessed) and wicked_boy. The reason Ashlynne has a choice between Lady Merril, Lady Mabelle, and the Ensemble is because she was actually tied with PappyCat for the lead role of Princess Winnifred. She wasn’t cast in any other role besides the Winnifred u/s, so I have decided to give her a choice of three smaller roles. She deserves a role just as much as PappyCat, and I think it’s only fair that she gets some recognition. The other person who has the option to take a different role is wicked_boy as Sir Studley, because he was not cast as an understudy or lead, but he still presented a good audition. Even though Brock07 auditioned for Studley, he was cast in many other understudy roles, so I have decided that it’s a small enough part among many others that he can give to wicked_boy. Congratulations to both of you, BroadwayObssessed and wicked_boy!

Secondly, I would like to congratulate PappyCat, Apples2for10, ConverseSneaker, dcrowley, wicked_diva, mastachen, Brock07, and Beagle On Stage for receiving lead/supporting roles. Many of you had great competition to overcome, so great job – all of you – for taking the time to make awesome auditions. You deserve these roles!

I would also like to give a shout out to BroadwayObssessed, ConverseSneaker, Lepitot, Lady’sMaid, Beagle On Stage, Brock07, and BroadwayBeast for being understudies!! More often than not, there were ties and I was forced to either flip a coin or draw from a hat to decide who would be cast as whom. All of you presented awesome auditions, so please don’t be insulted or disappointed for being understudies. In real shows, they are so vital to a run of a performance, and understudying can be lots of fun! Congratulations!

This show, I added an Ensemble since there was a fair number of people with cameo and/or understudy roles. Our Ensemble for Once Upon a Mattress consists of three great people – BroadwayBeast (our Jester understudy), Lady’sMaid (our Princess #12, and u/s for Larken), and Monkeychick (our Nightingale of Samarkand). Thank you for auditioning, and I hope you are excited to be part of this great show!

Quick reminder about banners:

[ConverseSneaker]

EST=eastern standard time.

And according to EST, it's past noon. WHERE IS THE CAST LIST?

[mastachen]

^Right above you

Yay!

I won something!

Thanks to Luc and the 8 people who voted for me

[musikal_geek]

...right...there.

[Joshua]

Whoever needs a banner, I shall make it for you. Just tell me if you want me to.

[ConverseSneaker]

Oh.





I guess we clicked the reply button at the same time.


Yay! I got Larken...

Congrats everyone and thanks for voting me for Larken!
Joshua, I would love a banner, because my paint skills are crappy.

[Lady'sMaid]

I'd love a banner Joshua, my paint skills are wuite limited.

I'm so excited thanks for the votes and congrats all!

[musikal_geek]

Lady'sMaid! I'm so glad to see you! There were three new people in the cast, you being one of them, so I was kind of worried that you guys wouldn't show up again... yay for you!

[Lady'sMaid]

Yup! I'm still here! I've been very excited for this, even though I know I haven't been posting very much.

[wicked_boy]

Well done. Thanks Luc.

Someone make me a banner please. I don't have any time!

[Joshua]

Okey dokey! Will do.

[musikal_geek]

Wait, Josh. Before you make the banner wicked_boy has to decide if he's going to stick to Ensemble or be Studley!

[DontDoSadnessxx]

Congrads everyone!! =]
Im hoping to see some other shows have forum casts soon because i didn't know once upon a mattress too well =[

[wicked_boy]

[Joshua]

Alrighty will do.

[PappyCat]

Sweet Deal...Looks like I won based on luck! Thanks for the votes, everyone!

[musikal_geek]

[wicked_diva]

Joshua, I'd love a banner, as well! Thank you!

[BroadwayBeast]

Hey, Someone please make me a kickass banner...Please?

[SuperKabob]

Darn it, Joshua beat me to the bannermaking. If anyone wants one from me, just ask.

[Trevor reincarnate]

Ummmm... What the f*ck?

[musikal_geek]

Problem?

[sunshinekate]