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.
Karen Mercedes http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html *************************************** What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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