Come up to Seattle sometime - the Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan had a rather petite
Katisha in their Mikado last summer.
On Sun, 10 February 2002, Karen Mercedes wrote:
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> I wish directors of G&S around here were enlightened. 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. Since then, EVERY
> SINGLE G&S production I've auditioned for (with one exception) has
> ended up using a short, extremely rotund mezzo or contralto as their G&S
> "contralto buffa". It's reached a point - almost - where I've begun
> thinking it's just not worth the time and energy to go out for these
> auditions, and frankly I don't any longer when I know that the casting
> director has a "lookism" proclivity. I only go to G&S auditions now when I
> haven't heard of the director.
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> Karen Mercedes
> http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html
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