In a message dated 02/10/2002 5:15:30 PM Central Standard Time,
dalila@R... writes:
<< Only once was I
fortunate enough to audition for a "non-lookism" director, who cast me -
despite my being tall and (particularly at that time) not particularly
"round and rosy" - as Little Buttercup in HMS PINAFORE. >>
Karen, have you auditioned for the Young Vic in Baltimore? I was cast as
Queen of the Fairies and Katisha despite not being, as Anna Russell put it,
"very fat, very old and [having] a voice like a foghorn." For IOLANTHE, they
put me in black and silver lame and I played her rather assertive,
particularly for a Victorian-era woman, and that was what was frightening,
not being a sight gag, which is too often the case with G&S. In MIKADO, I
was just dressed in a lime green kimono with a birdcage on my head, and
played her clingy, needy and desperate. It worked.
Christine Thomas
Wauwatosa, WI
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"I love to sing-a, about the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a"
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