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re: Westport Playhouse
Posted by: roleplay 08:08 am EDT 08/23/22
In reply to: re: Westport Playhouse - KingSpeed 03:07 pm EDT 08/22/22

I totally agree. Do we really know the extent of the audition process in this case. Back in the day, people seen for leads......and even more so in major projects, would go through extensive callbacks and readings and had to be agreed upon by entire creative teams! I mean like 10 people! I realize with the pandemic and self taping, that process was abbreviated but if it was just one or 2 submitted self tapings, something just does feel right about this situation. I remember someone telling me way back when........"yeah, but the musical director didn't want me or the choreographer said No..." Where were the naysayers in this instance?
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re: Westport Playhouse
Posted by: Chazwaza 12:16 pm EDT 08/26/22
In reply to: re: Westport Playhouse - roleplay 08:08 am EDT 08/23/22

And back in the day people were also offered roles without auditioning, or had roles written for them, or had them soft offered with the formality of an audition for the producers...
There are and were many ways auditions and casting processes go... none of them are present here.

This circumstance of Beanie being hired doesn't fall into any normal category of how anyone is hired for a lead in a Broadway show. And I very much doubt a single zoom audition after having never starred in a musical in a major production prior, and with the tricky element of their parents being investors, will be a common audition process... regardless of whether she "earned" the role fair and square via talent and fit for the role or not.
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