Happy New Year! It's 2007! Four days to go to auditions. Looks like we are going to have even more people turn up than we thought. All sorts of calls about auditioning have come in from new people to director her and director him.
A show in Windsor has apparently been cancelled according to one person who phoned director him. That person is definitely coming down and may bring others along too. This will be the largest turnout for auditions for a spring play since Stags & Hens, maybe the largest ever.
This dream situation makes life very difficult for those who have to cast the show. Secretary and I spent a very pleasant New Year's Eve at friends along with box office, director her and previous director. We stayed the night at director her & previous director's place and had a discussion over a drink (with box office as well) that there may be a lot of disappointed people (producer and box office included) after auditions.
We need good new blood and doing a Terry Pratchett is a useful way to draw a different group of people into CAST. You are going to have a rather different sort of person thinking about trying out for Mort than for say My Fair Lady, Cinderella or Outside Edge. The people who appear in this show are also quite likely to stay to do our next one, Return To The Forbidden Planet, as it has a similar sort of appeal.
The point here is that director her is already having nightmares over the casting. As each extra person comes into view, it gets to be more of a nightmare as well. But once DEATH, Mort, Ysabell and Albert have been cast I shall join director her and director him to assist with casting the other parts and to help take the blame from anyone who is disappointed! It will be good for me to have something to do to take my mind off being disappointed at not getting the part I wanted!!!
Thought for the day: '"Ah. Well. There's certainly plenty of raw material" sighed Lezek.' Mort (The book, that is) TP
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