Starring the Baby-sitters Club! Part 1!

[road_baby]

Well, well, well! So when I got up today I really felt like snarking. Yes, even more than playing Sims. I decided to tackle this Super Special because I've been wanting to do this one for a while.Don't get me wrong. I don't really have anything against Jessi though she may be a little egotisical and bland. But omg, do I love when the BSC's ego

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[the1812overture]

My high school cast based on popularity more than talent. We didn't have a large budget for the theater, and most of the money for sets came from selling tickets. I asked the director why we didn't have fundraisers, and he told me because he didn't want some kids participating in them, some kids not, and those who did thinking that participating meant they were owed a role. I don't know why he thought that when there were kids, like me, content to to sets and costumes without expecting a role. So, rather than do something that made sense like having participating be a condition of being in theater at all, it was by ticket sales.

Do you know what happens when you cast the popular kids instead of who can actually act? You get a situation where the theater is both a joke so that a lot of people won't pay, and a situation at the same time where being cast confirms you're popular. When we did Anything Goes, the girl cast as Hope Harcourt got out there, and froze. She froze bad. Since understudies weren't cast, that performance had to be cancelled. We tried again the next night, and she couldn't even go on stage. The rest of the few shows were cancelled. We had to give refunds on all the tickets sold. That was the money we would have used for when we did A Midsummer Night's Dream. Since we had no budget at all, AMND ended up being this strange production with cardboard sets and everyone in t-shirts and jeans. I'm not kidding at all. It sucked bad.

[fairest1]

That . . . that's incredibly stupid. If someone thinks they're owed a role because they helped with the fundraiser, how would that end up being worse than someone who thinks they're owed a role because they're popular? At least the person working on the fundraiser demonstrates an interest in seeing the show go on.

[the1812overture]

His justification was that he was going to cast the people who'd result in tickets getting sold. What he didn't understand is that having fundraisers and even giving preferential treatment to the kids who participated would have freed up the thespian department from concern over ticket sales, meaning you can cast the unpopular kids and not have to worry about selling enough tickets to keep the next show on. That was a small town where people actually did pull into student-run car-washes and whatnot. When color guard did it, we couldn't keep up with the line!

I think it was just easier for him to not bother with fundraisers and just cast the popular kids. I think he was just lazy.

[fairest1]

I'd be more understanding if the casting went more like "My casting choices are entirely by merit and have absolutely nothing to do with whose parents helped fund the performance. No correlation whatsoever." *shoves wads of cash into pockets*