Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

<passage>:
I Cast Call “First casting calls are so difficult,” Peggy Lane said, looking ruefully at the fifty or more actresses and actors who milled about nervously, chatting with one another, or sat on the few folding chairs trying to read. “With only nine roles to be filled,” she continued, “it doesn’t matter how good these people are friendly with Randy Brewster, the boy who wrote it, right now are Mal and Randy. After all, they have Peggy stole a glance through the doors to the theater. “I think we’re about ready to find out whether or not you can act,” she said. “They seem to be about through with the actors, and that means you’re on Randy to join them, each was sure that she had been to be sure—but with Randy Brewster, somehow, people?” Amy asked, interrupting her thoughts. “How can they hope to hear so many actors read for Randy and Mal joined them. them in just one afternoon?” replied, glad to turn her attention from what was becoming a difficult subject for thought. “This is just a first cast call. All they want to do today is pick people for type. They’ll select all the possible ones, send him and tell him how good the play was, and how and starts to read your lines.” All at the same time, the girls started to reassure the impossible ones away, and then go into elimination just how badly you’ve written until someone gets up badly the actors, including themselves, had handled the lines, but this was so much like their last exchange “because they both have a pretty good idea of what the characters in the play should look like. And if the people they pick aren’t good enough actors, then they hold another cast call and try again. Mal says that sometimes certain parts are so hard to “But what if the people they pick for looks can’t cast that they have to go through a dozen calls just to find one actor.” detective’s, and his gentle, cultured English voice and assured manner, he calmly gave his opinion of the afternoon’s auditions. “It seems kind of unfair, doesn’t it, to be eliminated in the strained atmosphere of the bare rehearsal studio. It was at this point that Mal and Randy came in, with pleasant, if somewhat brisk, nods to the assembled actors and actresses, and a special smile for Amy and Peggy. In a businesslike manner, they settled themselves at a table near the windows, spread out scripts and pads and pencils, and prepared for the chore that faced them. Amy, who was there to table. Her job was to take names and addresses, and to jot down any facts about each actor that Randy and Mal wanted to be sure to remember. and Randy. Then, estimating the crowd, he said, “Since there are fewer men here, and also fewer male roles to cast, we’re going to do them first. I hope that you ladies won’t mind. We won’t keep you waiting long, but if we worked with you first, we’d have these gentlemen waiting most of the day. Shall we get started?” After a brief glance at his notes, he called and approached the table. Peggy watched with interest as Mal and Randy looked them over, murmured to Amy to take notes, and asked questions. After a few minutes, the men left, two of them looking happy, two resigned. Then Mal stood and called for leading man types, late twenties or early thirties, was, she felt it was hardly a way to have to deal with human beings. Slipping back through the crowd of waiting actors, she joined the actresses in the rear of the room, and found an empty seat next to a young girl. awfully good to get the part. And it’s really important to me, too, because I’m getting near the end of over at the Academy, I can always take a job as a typist or a secretary somewhere, while I look for parts. If you can type and take shorthand, you never “Let’s go see how they’re coming with the actors,” she said. “I think they’re almost finished.” the right type for the role. Perhaps some other....” and his voice trailed off in embarrassment. bluff-looking person, like these three gentlemen whom I have chosen to hear. The part calls for it. I’m sorry.” watched him go, not knowing whether to feel sorrier for him or for Mal. “All right, gentlemen,” Mal called out. “That takes care of the male roles. All of you who are left will be given copies of the play to study, marked at the passages carefully, so that you understand the workings of the characters you have been selected to read. You have three days to look it over. We’ll meet at ten o’clock on Saturday morning at the Penthouse Theater to hear you. Thank you. And now for the ladies.” 9 then stood to one side to watch. Mal went down the line, regretfully dismissing one after the other of the girls, and occasionally asking one to step aside to try for another role. His tough-looking expression hardly varied as he spoke to each readings later.” among them. Mal thanked them, distributed scripts, and asked them to be at the Penthouse Theater on 3 Saturday at noon. to get the part! I know it!” 10 “Don’t count too much on it,” Peggy cautioned, would be one of their most difficult roles to cast. Only four actresses came forward, and Mal, with difficulty, reviewed them all. Unable to eliminate by type, he gave them all scripts and asked them to come to the theater. Then he called for “character ingénues” and Peggy joined seven other girls in the of conversation that once more they broke up eliminated three of them on the basis of hair coloring, height or general type. Another, curiously enough, was eliminated, like Amy, for a Southern accent, and a fifth, also like Amy, was too beautiful. “The part calls for a pretty girl,” Mal said with a rare the stage! It was a pleasure to look at you, but I’m afraid you’re not quite right for the part.” When he was done, Peggy and two others were given scripts and told to come to the theater on Saturday. Feeling lightheaded and giddy, Peggy settled herself on one of the folding chairs that lined But despite this knowledge, she could not help looking ahead—all the way ahead—to the restless stir of the opening-night audience out front, the last-minute preparations backstage, the bright, hot lights and the smell of make-up and scenery paint as she waited to go on in Act One, Scene One of Come Closer wasteland of empty rows of seats like tombstones. On the stage, a “businessman type” was reading his lines. Peggy knew, after the first few words, that he would not do. He had somehow completely with great care. Amy, who was acting as Mal’s assistant for the production, sat in a chair by the proscenium, reading her script by the light of a small lamp and feeding the actor cue lines. Mal followed the whole sequence with no visible sign of impatience and, when the actor was through, said, “Thank you. We’ll let you know our decision in a day or two.” Following his reading, Mal again repeated his polite, invariable formula, “Thank you. We’ll let you know our decision in a day or two,” and called for the next reading. Peggy watched the remaining actors try for the role, and made mental notes of which ones were possible, parts. Their performances were uniform imitations of each other, and all were imitations of the early acting style of Marlon Brando. They seemed to forget, “You can’t let yourself worry about that,” Randy and Peggy, turning around in her seat, saw a few of the actresses entering. They quietly found seats in the rear and settled down to await their turn. whispered. “I’m looking for a girl I met at the casting call, and I’d like to chat with her for a few minutes when she comes. Do you mind if I don’t look at all As she went up the aisle as unobtrusively as possible, Peggy glanced at the actresses who had just come in. She recognized a few of their faces from the casting call of three days ago, but did not see her lobby to wait for her there. A new group of girls entered the theater as Peggy was leaving and, as she Variety very carefully,” Greta said. “

<question>:
What is Randy’s role during the auditions?

<options>:
A He is not required at auditions
B Quiet observer
C He coaches the folks auditioning prior to going on
D Cues up the lines for the auditions

<answer>:

B