| I ask the people from the production team that have done the show previously. If it's an ENTIRELY NEW production team, I'll have "workshop days" where the choreographer will dance with them, the vocal director will sing with them, and I'll play drama games with them. You'd be amazed at how useful that sort of this is, especially since I can read right away who is REALLY dedicated, who is "up for anything", willing to be silly, who has great body control... etc. |