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

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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 friendly with Randy Brewster, the boy who wrote it, and each time she brought a draft home, I got to to read. read it. So I’m not at a disadvantage.” in three different drafts since it started. Peggy’s one another, or sat on the few folding chairs trying had worked with him before, as a general assistant, when they had discovered a theater. It would not be Randy to join them, each was sure that she had been terrible. “Oh, no!” Peggy said. “You two were just marvelous! And if it was difficult for Mal, she thought, it was more so for Randy Brewster, the author of the play, for her friendship with him was of a different sort than with Mal. Mal was just a friend—a good one, to be sure—but with Randy Brewster, somehow, things were different. There was nothing “serious,” she assured herself, but they had gone on dates together to stop. When they seemed at the point of dissolving “How can they hope to hear so many actors read for helplessly into a permanent attack of the giggles, Randy and Mal joined them. them in just one afternoon?” “If you’re laughing at the play,” Randy said first cast call. All they want to do today is pick people gloomily, “I can hardly blame you. You never know him and tell him how good the play was, and how badly the actors, including themselves, had handled the lines, but this was so much like their last exchange “But what if the people they pick for looks can’t just how badly you’ve written until someone gets up act?” Amy asked. “And what if some of the rejects are wonderful actors?” “because they both have a pretty good idea “... so, you see,” Peggy concluded, “we were each explaining how good the others were and how bad we were, and when Randy started telling us how bad he had been as a writer, we just couldn’t stand 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 cast that they have to go through a dozen calls just afternoon’s auditions. to find one actor.” detective’s, and his gentle, cultured English voice and there was no sense in my trying out at all, because I assured manner, he calmly gave his opinion of the “It seems kind of unfair, doesn’t it, to be eliminated just because you’re not the right physical your accent, Amy,” she said. “It’s your looks, too. At least for this play. Mal and Randy told you that you’re just too pretty for any of the parts that fit anybody ought to feel insulted, it’s me, because they asked me to try out!” 4 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 themselves at a table near the windows, spread out scripts and pads and pencils, and prepared for wished Peggy good luck, and joined the boys at the 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. Mal started the proceedings by introducing himself 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 and approached the table. Peggy watched with interest as Mal and Randy looked them over, murmured to Amy to take notes, and asked questions. couldn’t stand watching the casting interviews any said. “Being friendly with Randy and Mal isn’t going to help me in the least, and I’m going to have to be awfully good to get the part. And it’s really important New York to study acting and try for parts for a year, and I agreed that if I didn’t show signs of success with a smile, “and they made sure that I learned routine office skills before they would let me think be grateful that he made me learn all those things. I don’t think he has much faith in the acting given copies of the play to study, marked at the passages characters you have been selected to read. You have The men left, after being given their scripts, and 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 more. Finally, there were only four left, Paula among them. Mal thanked them, distributed scripts, and asked them to be at the Penthouse Theater on Saturday at noon. to get the part! I know it!” 10 was out of the way, she knew it would be her turn. This time, there were not so many applicants and Peggy remembered Randy telling her that this 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 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. 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 the back wall, and waited for Mal, Randy, and Amy and pastry had been ordered, they tried to explain so familiar with the play that she knew she had an She had watched the script grow from its first rough draft to the finished text now in her hands, and had discussed it with Randy through each revision. She knew she could play the part in fact, she suspected secretly that Randy had written it for her, and the thought made her blush. Still, it would not be easy, she knew. Mal’s sense of fairness and his absolute , Randy Brewster’s brilliant new play in which Peggy Lane would be discovered! 12 The audience consisted of a handful of actors and actresses, and Randy Brewster and Mallory Seton. The stage lighting was a cold splash produced by two his lines. Peggy knew, after the first few words, that he would not do. He had somehow completely missed the character of the man he was portraying, 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, Still, he was clearly a better actor than the first, and with direction might do well. Following his reading, Mal again repeated his 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, to have no idea at all about the play or its meaning, and Peggy was sure that these men had read only the parts marked for them. Others had a clear understanding and tried to create him in the brief time they had on stage. Others still were actors who had one rather inflexible way of playing, and used it for all kinds of parts. Their performances were uniform imitations of each other, and all were imitations of the early acting 14 Each actor, no matter how good or how bad, was treated with impersonal courtesy by Mal, and each they learned that they had not been selected. for each role. I wish there were some way of telling the good ones you can’t take that they were really good, but that you just couldn’t take everyone!” “You can’t let yourself worry about that,” Randy replied. “The good ones know they’re good, and whispered. “I’m looking for a girl I met at the casting

<question>:
How did the auditioners know what to read on Saturday?

<options>:
A Peggy selected passages from the earlier drafts of the play for auditioners
B Amy assigned passages based on personalities of the auditioners
C Mal selected passages for each auditioner
D Randy randomly assigned passages to test the depth of acting

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C