This Troper somewhat plays with this Trope. She is 'always' cast as serial killers, insane ladies or femme fatales just because she dresses in black and wears heavy make-up. The thing is she's actually a calm, happy person who has the face features of a ten-year-old.

This troper once attended a variety showed hosted, produced, directed and starring two people and a handful of others. The leading lady was a remarkable dancer, as was the male lead. Their acting was...okay. Their singing...let's just say, this troper was at one of their BETTER shows.

This troper in theatre in High School usually played bumbling idiots and was the one that was usually cast when comedic slapstick was needed. However, I was cast a villainous DepravedHomosexual EvillyAffable male serial killer in a Murder Mystery original play by one of my classmates for a one act play festival. I actually freaked a TON of people out and very few recognized me. IT WAS AWESOME. ... and eventually lead me to playing Orin Scrivello and Mrs. Lovett in community theatre.

There was also the color blind casting in my High School's production WestSideStory.

Not a theater example, but we were supposed to do films about S.E. Hinton's TheOutsiders for a school project. What people do we have to recreate the frighteningly realistic depictions of gang life in the book? A bunch of GenkiGirls who don't even have the slightest idea of what it's about. As you'd imagine, it didn't work. AT ALL.

This Troper absolutely cracked up at the stunt his alma mater pulled when putting on ''Guys and Dolls''--having the role of Big Jule played by a boy who was less than five feet tall and quite frankly didn't even look old enough to be in the high school. He nailed the character just fine, but it was great to see what is supposed to be this hulking, physically imposing character as the smallest one on the stage.

Durazno: Back in HS, I was Big Jule alongside a Nathan Detroit who had three inches and about fifty pounds on me. It was especially fun because I'd been Krojack to his Walter in ''Don't Drink the Water'' the previous semester. The director tried his hardest to avoid typecasting us after that.

Being a shy geeky type who doesn't get many girls, This troper was rather surprised to be cast as a Cassanova-ish character in a comedy sketch. Completely cast against type, there was only one thing he could think of to do: act extremely laid-back, imitating other people pretending to be high on marijuana. Apparently, it worked.

This troper was once cast as Tiny Tim in "A Christmas Carol". This troper is six-foot-two.

Was it for hilarious irony, or were the casters blind?

Probably irony. (Not the same troper, just so you know) This troper had an underclassman that was really tall. His nickname was "Tiny".

This troper has a friend who has recently been cast as Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame- a character known for his deep, commanding voice. Said friend is still going through puberty, IfYouKnowWhatIMean.

In middle school (think around twelve or thirteen years old if you're unfamiliar with the US school system), I had a teacher who did a play with her class every two or three years. To psych us up for her idea of doing a stage version of "Beauty and the Beast," which had just come out, she showed us a tape of her last play. They did "Little Shop of Horrors." And oh my. For Audrey II, who's performed by a menacing bass in the film and many stage versions, she cast some little blonde girl who ''chirped'' "Feed me, Seymour!" in the perkiest voice you can imagine. Audrey I's boyfriend, Orrin Scrivello, DDS? A scrawny little slip of a kid whose voice kept cracking and who had trouble getting his leather jacket off.

That particular type casting for Audrey II (We actually had a GenkiGirl Audrey II...) was what happened a production I was in. It was actually really, REALLY disturbing.

One of the professors at this troper's college has a habit of WTH Casting. Sometimes it works out just fine (this troper's been on the other end of it a few times and likes to think that she pulled it off), and sometimes it... doesn't.

This Troper's school has a small event titled Senior Directed One-Acts, which is basically Exactly What It Says On The Tin. Last year, this Troper, then a junior, got cast under a senior that she particularly disliked. But because this was her first time doing the One-Acts, she basically kissed some butt. Our senior director chose a skit called Serial Killer Barbie. The casting called for one brunette and 3 blondes. She cast one brunette (moi) and 3 blondes. But instead of doing the cheapest thing and casting us by hair color, This Troper was cast as a blonde and her blonde friend as the brunette. I had to wear a Hannah Montana wig and she had to spray-dye her hair for a day. I have never forgiven the humiliation of the Hannah Montana wig and was all too willing to donate the damn thing to the costume dept. in hopes of never seeing it again.

A friend of this troper was pegged by her elementary school music teacher to play a gentle Chinese girl in the annual Christmas program. Said friend is neither gentle nor ''remotely'' Asian. Apparently, the teacher ''forgot'' that the character had lines, even a ''whole song'' spoken entirely in Chinese, because when this troper asked her about it, she just looked mildly surprised. Now all I can do is headdesk when I think of that play. It was awkward, and just... yeah.

This male troper was head runner in getting the role of Frosty the Snowman in an elementary school adaptation of the 1976 Rankin/Bass cartoon "Frosty's Winter Wonderland." Know who I eventually lost it to? A fat, black GIRL!

This troper, an Acting Student, tried out for High School Musical On Stage. Into the first person: Not because I wanted to, because I had to. I ended up getting a part. Understand this: I am very, ''very'', white. And I am a gigantic nerd. Who was I cast as? Chad. I find out later on, Chad is a stereotypical ''black'' character. And a ''JOCK.'' When I turned down the role, one of my friends got the part instead. ''He is as white as I am''. I understand, when your an acting student, you have to act out of your element, but that's just a tad ridiculous.

This troper's middle school suffered from a severe case of PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad. When the drama deparment said "We do not type-cast", what it actually meant is "We will cast a black kid as the white lead, and the son of the head of the PTC as the co-star." The PTC head's son, to put it bluntly, was a fat, smug prissy type. The roles he got to play were Huckleberry Finn (TomSawyer) and Fagin (OliverTwist). He didn't look, sound, or act the parts. The third year he was cast as The Mayor in ByeByeBirdy, where he did look the part and did a great job. This troper, however, remains bitter because the fat prissy kid was his prime competition for roles in the plays and solos in the chorus. And yes, the fact that his mom was the head of the PTC was the deciding factor every.single.time.

We had a showcase of original student-written plays in my art school last year. For the play that I had written, the attractive girl who usually played the ValleyGirl or the {{libby}} was cast as the mother of the two main characters, after the girl who usually plays the mother role turned it down. However, this pales in comparison to the amazing stunt casting that was done for another play. The play was a commentary on discrimination because of sexual preference, and was set in a ''VForVendetta''-style future, where there is a television show dedicated to making fun of gays on live TV. The nicest, most normal guy in class played the crazy, evil, cross-dressing host of the show and the nicest, most normal girl in class played his bitchy, slutty assistant. Everyone was utterly shocked and impressed at how well they had pulled off the PlayingAgainstType casting.

Same Troper's school has a rather disproportionate ratio of about one male student for every three female students, so we had a case of "reverse Elizabethan/Greek theatre" casting, where girls would play roles intended for boys. In our production of ''RomeoAndJuliet'', more minor male characters such as Tybalt, Mercutio and the servants Gregory, Sampson and Peter were played by girls. They handled the fencing pretty well.

this troper's HighSchool production of {{Seussical}} is currently turning out to be a bit of a casting mess. They cast a 5'8" baritone to play a young child, and a guy almost nobody likes to play Horton, and various AttentionWhores along the way, amongst other things. Albeit, the casting problems might be solved because half of the cast has quit.

This not even remotely threatening troper auditioned for Chip in our school's production of Beauty and the Beast. I got Monsieur D'Arque (the creepy old man who runs the asylum). Subverted in that I had an absolute ball and turned out to be rather creepy.

I dropped out of a show I really wanted to be in because of this. The two main singing roles went to a guy who's voice was... not good yet (he improved after puberty was over) and a girl who hadn't wanted the part to begin with because she knew she was tone deaf (she dropped out immediately). The role of the princess should have been a WTF. This role was originally played by Carol Burnett, and is not supposed to look like a traditional princess. The girl who was cast for our version? Tall, long curly blonde hair, big blue eyes, pretty- with a Broadway belter's voice and comic timing to die for. Not that her talents are why she got the role, which annoyed her. It worked out okay in the end, but it was in spite of the idiots casting it.

This troper got one when he was cast as Ghengis from Dracula Spectalula (for the curious, Ghengis is a vampire who is also Dracula's butler). I normally play minor characters or chorus (and never an evil character). I think I chewed a bit too much scenery in that role, but it was great fun. Similarly, a friend of mine got the role of Renfield during a school performance of Dracula, a far cry from his less evil roles in previous plays.

This troper has very down-on-her-luck casting experience at auditions and has several tales to entertain you with:

When her local theatre put on a production of "Little Women" this troper was cast as a society girl with two lines in what was essentially a BigLippedAlligatorMoment. And the girl who was cast lead as young Jo could not act at all. Her voice was soft, she mumbled, put no emotion into her lines, and seemed really out of the part. Same situation with young and older Beth. And young Laurie had a Southern accent in a play that was supposed to take place in the north. Also, the younger and older counterparts of the characters looked nothing alike. I swear, Meg went from 15 to 35 in the two year span and the skinny younger girls um... really let themselves go?

This troper later found out that young Jo was related to one of the directors at the theatre, young Beth and young Laurie went to a camp held by another one of the directors, young Amy was related to a theatre patron, and older Meg was doing makeup and hair for the play so she had to be cast. She almost thinks that the only reason the director casted her was because he wanted to borrow a shitload of her furniture for the set.

This troper auditioned for "Our Town" at a local theatre and did some research on their past productions to see if they were any good. So she went to their website and saw the cast list consisted of the same faces for every play, including one guy who had been cast in prominent roles SEVEN TIMES. Undeterred she went to the audition and was once again turned down so the same faces could be cast in the play. To say there were politics is the understatement of the year.

She then found out that the guy who'd been cast seven times had parents who a major patron to the theatre and very involved financially. So he and his sister get frequently cast there and this troper has walked away in shame.

At her most recent play she auditioned for wanted a sweet, innocent looking and sounding girl to play the part she was auditioning for. So, being wide-eyed and high voiced, she thought she had a good shot. They casted a girl with a very deep voice, who didn't scream "INNOCENCE!" It didn't help that the girl had tell my whole class the next about the play she got the main role in and how everyone should come out and see it. Facepalming ensued.

Consequently, this and many other failed auditions have led her to become a very bitter auditionee.

Look Here: One of the cast is not like the others (In case you're wondering, it's the actress playing Dawn, if you've been on Newgrounds or played Castle Crashers, you may recognize that voice, and this movie isn't even released yet *Voice acting and animation need to be completed*). Though it's worth noting that I play tons of characters thanks to my vocal range.

This troper was in a drama class in which seventh and eighth grade students were grouped together (this was the first year that this happened). The eighth graders were more mature and as a result, better actors. However, the teacher (who was incompetent as a teacher and an utter hack as a director) always played favorites and gave all of the good parts to the seventh graders or whoever was popular. This ended making for some bizarre casting choices and poorly acted travesties of plays. Also, the teacher had a personal grudge against me (starting simply because I liked Michael Moore's movies) but that's another story.

This troper took part in a high-school Shakespeare production, in which the lead role went to the best actress we had--a short, cute, slightly nerdy romantic who basically ''was'' Juliet. The play was ''RichardIII''. It was...interesting (but a lot of fun).

If the movie this troper is currently writing ever gets made, and if she has a say in the casting of said movie, she will wholeheartedly recommend GeneWilder for the role of ''an aged biker.''