BY GEBRAI SPILLER
Ask any actor, and they’ll tell you: when you’re on that stage, it ceases to be a stage. It becomes a battlefield and you’re in the middle of a showdown. Actor versus actor. Everything gets intense. All eyes are on you.
“I’m always nervous before an audition,” sophomore Cassie Kennedy said.
Kennedy may have been nervous, but she walked away from the final round of callbacks on the 25th of September with the role of Addaperle in the production of The Wiz.
Callbacks are absolutely pivotal. They have the greatest influence over the decision that the director makes regarding the casting.
“Each actor brings something different to the stage.” Says the director Ms. Carter. “That is what makes the process so hard, yet still so fun.”
There’s Dorothy, Cowardly Lion, Scarecrow the Tin Man, and of course, the Wiz himself.
The Cast is as follows:
· Aunt Em : sophomore Alanna Ransom
· Dorothy : senior Ciara Anderson
· Uncle Henry : senior Shawn Polk
· Uncle Henry (understudy): senior John Martin
· Addaperle: sophomore Kassie Kennedy
· Scarecrow : sophomore JT Weathington
· Scarecrow (understudy): Devin Boiser
· Tinman: senior Christopher Lee
· Tinman (understudy): sophomore Brandon Garcia
· Cowardly Lion : Christopher Kitchen
· Glinda : freshmen Trynitee Sance
· Glinda (understudy): sophomore Alanna Ransom
· Evillene: senior Dechelle McGee
· Evillene (understudy): junior Asia Richardson
· The Wiz : junior Jared Vasquez
· The Wiz (understudy): senior John Martin