<p>Wait a minute…I think BRbway has a good point. Throughout this process, I have worried that my S will land in a program that plays to HIS strengths and does not try to put out a “cookie cutter” product or a “blank canvas.” </p>
<p>But looking around the audition rooms, everyone seems very attractive and all-american looking, and I think those are the types that get encouraged to audition, because they have the “look.” But a rich Bway culture needs ALL types, and I hope that in my S’s MT class, wherever he lands, is a broad spectrum of types… beautiful & complex leading ladies, handsom manly men, and quirky funny types that maybe lack a conventional “sex appeal” but lend so much to a good story (there are far more of those quirky types in real life, than the pretty people!)</p>
<p>Many of the people on BRbways list would not be considered classically good-looking, or even broadway types by today’s audition standards. But they had that SOMETHING…and represented a good cross-section of real life people. </p>
<p>I often look at the “geeky” guy in a TV show or a movie, and wonder how they got into the business. Did they go the conventional route even tho they didn’t have “THE LOOK”…or is that why so many Playbills list no school for their college training? Maybe they were forced to go another route.</p>
<p>I’m not the only one who noticed…I overheard a dad say to his son at UMich, “Everyone is so PRETTY. Where are all the character actors? When I went to theatre school we had ‘ugly’ people, too.” I totally ‘got’ what he meant.</p>
<p>P.S. My S is also one of the all-american types! But I worry that the competition will be so similar, it will be harder for him to stand out…</p>