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Next semester’s Common Casting auditions will incorporate limited communication between directors about their casting decisions, the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) announced yesterday...
...HRDC rules—which facilitate the exchange of first-choice casting lists—are designed to provide directors with a better sense of which actors are likely to be available as alternates, depending on whether they have been cast in desirable roles as first choices in other shows...
...Before [the directors] were doing the whole thing blind, and this gives them more information about the decisions they are making,” said Naomi R. Krakow ’03, the campus liaison for the HRDC board...
...addition to easing the stress on directors making casting decisions, the rule change should open the door for more individuals to be cast as alternates. According to the HRDC board, which met last night to discuss the decision, the same small group of actors are often awarded the majority of lead roles in campus productions. Those same actors are also generally selected as alternates for shows in which they were not the first choices...
Members of the HRDC board said during the meeting that the move will negatively impact very few actors—only those routinely cast in multiple first-choice and alternate roles will find themselves with fewer choices...