<p>“Kim Stengel - who I think is the longest running Carlotta of Phantom is one. She isn’t slender and yet look at the leading roles she has had.”</p>
<p>Yes but that’s an older woman’s lead (older meaning 35 plus, not ingenue). That was the point I made earlier, lead roles played by someone like Kim Stengel are for women of a certain age and larger girls often have problems being cast in young ingenue type roles.</p>