I don't know how much validity there is to this, but someone told me that today's commercially-aimed new musical is aimed towards a long horizon, including replacements and tours, and the show is the star, not any individual performer. If someone is uniquely quirky or uniquely talented, and the show is tailored too much around that, it could cause problems down the line. I'm not sure how much the creative team would take that into account, though, even if a producer wanted them to.
I'm wondering if people can expand on two things mentioned earlier: that too much training is potentially harmful, and that the pandemic has made the situation worse. I'm not sure I understand how training gets rid of quirks, unless the teachers have the wrong priorities. And I would have thought the pandemic's uncertainty would have meant fewer actors had commitments, so the pool of available actors would be larger. |
