Gender In Musical Theatre

snapdragonfly
Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:35:04 +0000

That’s probably one of the best things a coach can do - is help build a list with a good balance. That can be done without a coach too, if someone is lucky enough to have run across someplace like this site to tell them to do it, and then with some research. But the more I reflect on the process the more I think that getting the right school list is so amazingly essential to a successful end result.

It would be completely possible for someone to be the most talented person ever and just somehow not manage to be the fit they wanted at every single school they went to. It’s entirely possible and apparently does happen. Just a perfect storm of back luck.
~I really liked that purse and dress analogy someone posted a while ago - if you are the most amazing blue dress ever, but they have purple shoes and a purple hat and they have to have a purple dress, then you aren’t getting in. It could happen that not a one of your auditioned schools could use a blue dress so those safeties (that you would be happy at) are essential.