double casting--help!
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Topic: double casting--help!
Posted By: Andrea T
Subject: double casting--help!
Date Posted: 4/24/04 at 9:59pm
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I am a first time director, and am directing a musical production of Snow white and the seven dwarfs for children 8-18. I have many, many kids, and a very small stage. My only option is to double cast a few roles. How do you go about the rehearsal process? is it better to split the cast and have seperate rehearsals, or give both actors their blocking at the same times? please help! thanks!!!
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Posted By: buddywill
Date Posted: 4/29/04 at 2:45pm
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I direct a summer theater which draws in about 80 youth from our community every year, and in that group there's alot of great talent, so for the past 3 years, I've had to double cast. I've found that a good rule of thumb to go by is to have them all there at one time and split the rehearsal time in half for each cast. That way you can block cast one while cast two watches (or supposedly watches). That way when its cast two's time to block, they've seen what you've already blocked, and they pick it up in half the time (and you don't have to go through the heartbreak of explaining it in detail twice.), and at the next rehearsal, I let cast two go first while cast one watches and so on...
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