Your Typecast?

[Elenyae]

I knew a girl with a really low (and slightly husky) speaking voice...she always was cast as a male in school productions (I went to an all-girls' school). As a drama student, she continually begged the drama department to please please please cast her in a female part. She was cast in male parts for 4 years even though she was told that she would be cast in a female part, time and time again.

She got her own back though.

Final year of school, she played Sandy in Grease.

[Kyuuketsuki_nushi]

I'm always the romantic, boy-crazy one. In plays with people my age it might be the fact that I look a lot older than I am that gets me those roles, but even in plays with adults I get romantic roles. Strange thing is I'm a lesbian. >.>
lol

[Moiyra]

I always get the part of the innocent one. stare

[Clowgirl]

I'm always a maid or some really minor character. It kind of sucks. The only typecasted role I ever liked was Edith last year in our school's production of Blithe Spirit. I was pretty good..too bad I was the understudy and only got to do one show sad

[MusicalTheatreLover12]

I usually get cast as the mean, stuck-up characters. Or like this coming year, I have been recommended by my theatre director to try out for Helen Keller in the Mircle Worker, because I look like I am 12, but I am a lot older.

[TheTessinator]

I was a prostitute in Les Mis for my first role with my group and the costumer pulled me aside and showed me a can-can skirt and said, "You look like a girl who would show a lot of leg". ... I was thirteen.

So yeah, usually a whore, or a crazy person.

[Flamingos And Mustard]

I wish I had a typecast. I never know what part im going to get because I've been cast in such a strange range of roles. Everything from Juliet in Romeo and Juliet to Ursula in The Little Mermaid.

[MusicalTheatreLover12]

Flamingos And Mustard

I wish I had a typecast. I never know what part im going to get because I've been cast in such a strange range of roles. Everything from Juliet in Romeo and Juliet to Ursula in The Little Mermaid.

That is awsome!!!

[Flamingos And Mustard]

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Flamingos And Mustard

I wish I had a typecast. I never know what part im going to get because I've been cast in such a strange range of roles. Everything from Juliet in Romeo and Juliet to Ursula in The Little Mermaid.

That is awsome!!!

4laugh

[Musenna]

I tend to be the matriarch of the play. Apparently, I have the ability to appear much older and mature on stage. I also always play the bitchy/slutty self-absorbed prima donnas.

[Perpetual Sketch]

I've more often been cast as an older woman. I HATE it, but I guess that's what I get for looking older than I am; it's easier to pull off old-age make-up. Plus I act more like an adult than most of my peers.

I'm hoping I'll be able to change that next year now that I know I'm a "character actor" (I always tried out for the ingenue roles, so I never really played my strengths at auditions). This doesn't mean I'll never get ingenue roles, but it means to me that I'm more likely to be cast if the director sees me in character parts. Fingers crossed!

[Anushax]

I just get thrown into anything. In drama class I've been everything from the evil troll under the bridge in billy goats gruff, to a broadcaster at a football protest...

I don't really count my grade 10 year as a real drama class though, the teacher did not enforce anything, we had kids on spare, ACTING in our skits. Not just class-crashing, ACTING.
I hope that next year the drama teacher takes on all the courses... not just the grade 9's...

[Que_Arres]

When I was in high school, I was rather consistently cast as a young male:

• Edmund in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
  
• Conrad in Much Ado About Nothing

Musicals, I was usually in the chorus, but when we did The Fiddler on the Roof, I finally got cast as a female lead, Shaindel (not sure I'm spelling that right; she's Motel's mother). Consequently, I was awarded the Has-Finally-Been-Cast-in-a-Female-Role Award as a joke at that year's drama banquet.

Now I do amateur voice-acting. I haven't gotten many roles, but so far my niche seems to be "Voice Over the Intercom" and "Serious Wise Woman." I did get a small part as one of the ghost children in an adaptation of Coraline, though, so that's a start.

[fishket]

I am allways cast in darker roles, this is a list of roles i have done


Dracula

Jekyll/Hyde

Sweeny Todd

Javert

[Tanalilt]

I don't MIND my typecast, which has, I suppose, been 'emotional woman'
I say that as in, I get the characters that either have a pleasent disposition and wide vocabulary,
or being pissed or sad at a husband/boyfriend.
Example: my last two roles, both Shakespeare, have been Lady MacDuff and Ophelia.