[Mb-hair] Bingone

[Michael Butler]

Jim,

You are dead right. Casting is such a tough scene if producers have heart.
Unfortunately more producers nowadays are lacking sympatico.

BY THE WAY
Today is Heather's Birthday.

Michael

> 
> 'Don't be heading over to that new off-Broadway musical, BINGO, to catch
> Heather MacRae...  By "mutual consent", she's no longer in the show.
> 
> That's not terribly unusual by the way, nowadays, and never a
> reflection, necessarily, on the actor. But here's the weider part, in
> terms of its producers/director. They've replaced Heather with another
> big gal.
> 
> But, at the end of August, a pal of mine auditioned for that same part,
> all excited. This gal, though, is extraordinarily slim. Which, now,
> clearly, is absolutely not how the show's creators, saw that role.
> 
> So, the question is, why did they waste even one actor's time,
> auditioning for a part she was never going to get?
> 
> As many here know, age is not a factor in getting your hopes up for a
> part. And a run in anything, the ability to have a role for a while, is
> still manna for many a working actor.
> 
> And sad, how easily so many producers and directors, still will,
> seemingly willingly, create even a small heartbreak,
> 
> 
> Jim Burns
> 
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