"Said I'm the best one you never had..."

[theatre_angel]

I apologize for the entry last night. Pre-Hartwick homesickness abruptly decided to come in for a crash-landing, and I went bawling upstairs to my mom's room, and proceeded to spend the night with her eating vanilla ice cream and discussing the future. My mom is a vastly unsentimental and businesslike creature of habit. We're similar in the last

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[nycgirl107]

I didn't comment on your entry last night, but I will now on this one, haha.

Is there a superficial side to the entire showbusiness thing? Of course. There are people who type cast, and those who won't. What you need to worry about is just plugging along, doing what you're good at, and continuing to grow in all the areas you are passionate about. In the end, I think somebody who has the passion and who works her butt of will have more success than the one who just looks the part and has some talent. And if that's not so in teh traditional sense, I think anyone's who's passionate about what they do and has some talent can find fulfillment in whatthey want to do...which is the point, right?

As far as type-casting...when I was in high school I didn't get a single role. I never made it into any of the straight plays, and I never got anything more than the smallest ensemble parts in musicals. Same goes for community theatre. Then I got into NYU (the two toher girls in my grade who were accepted there had very similar experience to mine in high school. Though mine was the worst casting-wise). Point being a) what's going on in high school is not an indication of how the rest of your life or anyone else's will turn out and b) There are ignorant directors who type cast, but there are also people who will see what you really have and they will be eager to work with you. These are the people worth your time...not the directors who type-cast, who, if they are that unimaginative and lazy, probably shouldn't be director to begin with and they're probably one hell of a pain in the ass to work with creatively.

So, whoever this Spangler person is, whenever you accept your Tony or whatnot, you can say "You can just SHOVE IT, buddy!" ;)

[theatre_angel]

I always love receiving comments like this from you, because you're the most theatrically experienced person on my friends list, and you give me some hope for the future. ;-) High school theatre seems like the end of the world at times, just because of the trials it presents, but there is life after high school, and it's not a determine of how or what your life will be, like you said.

That'd be a funny Tony speech indeed. ;-)