#bc my uni was desperately searching for a musical with a ton of speaking roles and a decent story and complex roles
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Just chiming in as someone who works in theater. You actually wouldn't have to do that much crazy cross casting to do Warriors on stage. There are only 19 non-Warrior speaking roles. It's actually not that unreasonable to cast a 19 person ensemble and give them each a speaking role, and then just have them play background gang members in every other scene. The fewest i could see doing it with is 10 and double casting them, but that's pushing it bc there are 8 Warriors and it stops being believable that they're actually outnumbered. The single biggest issue I can actually see with doing this show is quick changes and costuming. But a total cast of 30 for a musical is really not that many.
#im not counting the boroughs bc theyre not really characters#but even if you wanted to include them#that brings the full cast to 35. really not that many. i could see a director wanting more ensemble on top of that easily#warriors musical#really mad this musical didnt come out last year#bc my uni was desperately searching for a musical with a ton of speaking roles and a decent story and complex roles#for women and poc#and here it is#warriors has nine (9!) lead female roles and theyre not even all sopranos!!!!
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