Taking On A Director’s Role Of Casting - Hard Work!!!

During this week we were able to show to everyone and the directors, the characters we think that we are capable to take the role of from ‘The Night Before Christmas’

Firstly we were given the opportunity to go up for the characters of either, Jack, Sally, Oogie Boogie, The Mayor, Dr Finklestein and The Three Kids. When we got to the three little kids, Dr Finklestein, Sally and Jack, I didn’t put myself in those categories, if there was a character I would want to take the role of, it would be The Mayor as I feel that is a character I would like to experiment with and now knowing that it is with two people makes me want it even more as I feel that will be a interesting and opportunity I will have to show what I have to offer. Although I would love to be this character, i can see others in the company who to me are shining through and i feel maybe they can be that character as I have the feeling that the directors maybe seeing that it isn’t me, which in a way I don’t mind as just being a character that I can work on is more than enough for me.

Seeing what character’s others put themselves in for, was a surprise. I felt that some were just putting themselves in it so the directors can see they think they can go for a lot of the characters, so that they have a wider choice of what they can be. I put myself for, The Mayor and Oogie Boogie. One thing that was brought up in this “exercise” was that some people put themselves up for Oogie Boogie whereas when asked to go up if you consider yourself a singer they put themselves not in it. I was one of those people, but one thing that confuses me, is when you ask that question is it to people that can sing anything and to those who think they can character sing. As I don’t consider myself as a true singer, I consider myself as a character singer, in my audition when singing What’s this, this showed nothing of what I can do, and I hope that it is not taken into consideration. I am a person who although believes I haven’t got a strong voice, I would give it my all.

Next was when Lock, Shock and Barrel were called, and 10 of us were left as we didn’t choose to be that character. Each person had to choose between what character out of the three they would want to be and then from each group one person had to pick what other two people they could work with and bounce off eachother if those three were chosen. Watching others choose two others to form their group, I felt loads were easily chosen, they gave hardly any thought and they chose people they felt close to or whom they never really work with. I felt they didn’t look at the wider picture of who would they be able to work with and who would be able to take the character on.

After, the ones who never chose to be either Lock, Stock or barrel were given the chance to look on the director’s side about casting, we had to pick a Santa, The Mayor, Jack and Sally. I found watching some people like Marina who put people in different characters, brought a strange elevation to me, there was some people I had never considered some of those parts for. When I had to go up there was two groups and I found it hard because one group chose someone different whereas we chose someone else.

Although everyone was not in the option of being picked I found now that we have to look at the wider perspective and see who we feel can take the character and explore in different ways and that are able to give them a voice, also within the character of those who would have songs to deliver, we have to look at that as well. This was an experience to do and a hard one at that, I now have respect for how much they have to do.

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