ponderings of a curious child

cosettespeaks:

broadwaykelly:

cosettespeaks:

caterfree10:

This really bothers me because who says someone can’t play a character because of how they look? I mean, as long as the part doesn’t require someone be a certain race, gender, whatever (ex, ATLA being an Asian- and Inuit-based fantasy and thus should’ve had Asian and Inuit actors in the main characters’ roles), it doesn’t matter what they look like. Hell, for example, I’d love to see a Christine who wasn’t white, for example. Or any Phantom of the Opera production where the leads weren’t white (HAS there been one? idek, tbh :/). Why can’t a Christine be something different than the prescribed wavy, dark-haired white girl we usually see?

Singing well, however, is rather required for the role though so that point I will agree with. ^^;

Maybe the whiteness wasn’t the problem… perhaps the girl just doesn’t look the part. Maybe she’s impossibly overweight, or incredibly unattractive in an apparent way…

The girl who played Christine at my college was blond.

I’m sure there’s been a production of Phantom in like Japan. The leads are Asian, not white. :)

And I don’t look like a Christine but I can sing the role.

Overweight people can be attractive, people - but this topic has been talked about again and again a hundred times on Phantomoftheopera.com - some people said that  “Your face Christine, it’s white!” shows that Christine is a white girl I think (correct me if I’m wrong). You have to be REALLY fit to play a role like Christine. Not the going to the gym type, but a very overweight girl could never handle it; there’s so many quick changes, ballet dancing, dancing at the Masquerade, singing high Es and Ds, and you have to be a dramatic actress. It’s very rare to see actresses who are overweight who are amazing ballet dancers (they are traditionally sticky). Just stating facts.

To put it out there, my double cast for the role of Christine is not a skinny little white girl. She is a beautiful, curvy, and tan girl who can sing the role, dance the role, and put as much emotion into it as a broadway actress. She is putting herself out there and proving that Christine doesn’t always have to be this vision that broadway has put out. And to BroadwayKelly, in the book, Christine is blonde. 

(Source: phantomoftheoperaconfessions)