At 6:53 PM -0700 7/22/05, Mark D Lew wrote:
Sure, cross-gender portrayals are commonplace in opera, too. Personally, I rather like that sort of thing, and I've even used it intentionally on occasion when I've had the opportunity to design a program. If I'm directing a chorus where I'm obliged to accept female tenors, I'd have no problem telling them, "you may be a woman, but you're playing a male character, so you get to sing 'There is nothing like a dame' with the rest of the tenors".
It was decided early on that in our production of "Oliver!" this summer we would use girls as well as boys in both the workhouse scene and in Fagin's gang. What i don't know yet, because I haven't seen the costumes, is whether our costumer will try to hide the fact that they're girls or just go with the flow.
And i still don't understand the reason for "pants" roles! John -- John & Susie Howell Virginia Tech Department of Music Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
