In a message dated 10/25/2002 12:45:55 AM Pacific Daylight Time, vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com writes:
> The first cut is visual, by the way. If they > don't like your looks that's it.
Sadly, this is true for most professional gigs--especially in pop music and Broadway or Broadway-style shows. I particularly recall vast cattle calls for the Broadway musicals. They'd have the women line up and say "You, you, you, and you stay. The rest of you are excused." Maddening to be "excused" on the basis of looks! Of course, then I could prattle on about the absurd lotteries held in NYC for summerstock. Imagine, a lottery to see who'd have the privilege of auditioning!
No wonder so much of what finally makes it to mass-marketing is so mediocre!
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