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 “Have you read the play?” Paula asked. “I’m lucky there,” Greta replied. “I’ve seen it in three different drafts since it started. Peggy’s 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, and each time she brought a draft home, I got to “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 most read it. So I’m not at a disadvantage.” 17 “What do you think of was sure that they were more complicated than Mal’s. “Do you think they’ll ever get through all these people?” Amy asked, interrupting her thoughts. “How can they hope to hear so many actors read for them in just one afternoon?” “Oh, they won’t be doing readings today,” Peggy replied, glad to turn her attention from what was becoming just how badly you’ve written until someone gets up 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 badly the actors, including themselves, had handled the lines, but this was so much like their last exchange of conversation that once more they broke up the impossible ones away, and then go into elimination and starts to read your lines.” in helpless laughter. When they got their breath back, and when coffee 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 to find one actor.” and pastry had been ordered, they tried to explain “It seems kind of unfair, doesn’t it, to be eliminated each explaining how good the others were and how afternoon’s auditions. bad we were, and when Randy started telling us how bad he had been as a writer, we just couldn’t stand there was no sense in my trying out at all, because I in the strained atmosphere of the bare rehearsal studio. 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. “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 couldn’t stand watching the casting interviews any unless I’m way off, you look just the way the lead should look. In fact, it’s almost uncanny. You look as if you just walked out of the script!” awfully good to get the part. And it’s really important to me, too, because I’m getting near the end of and I agreed that if I didn’t show signs of success before the year was up, I’d come home and go back to college. I’ve been here for eight months now, and part I’m trying for now isn’t a big one, but it’s a good typist or a secretary somewhere, while I look for parts. If you can type and take shorthand, you never have to worry about making a living.” a reporter of sorts and as a proofreader, too. I’ll always be grateful that he made me learn all those to be an actress?” “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 I want to hear. Be sure to read the whole play 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 The men left, after being given their scripts, and though they chatted amiably with one another, Peggy was sure that each was casting rather hostile parts. Keeping friendships in the theater was not an review of the remaining girls eliminated a few 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. All at the same time, the girls started to reassure to get the part! I know it!” 10 “Don’t count too much on it,” Peggy cautioned, get it. But,” she added, enthusiastically violating her own rule of caution, “I’m sure, too! I’ll see you Saturday. Even if I don’t get a script, I’ll be there just to hear you read!” 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, 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 to finish so she could join them for coffee. 11 Scarcely noticing the rest of the proceedings, she thought only about the coming readings. She was so familiar with the play that she knew she had an advantage, perhaps unfairly, over the other two girls. 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 devotion to the play above everything else would keep him from making up his mind in advance. 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 waited to go on in Act One, Scene One of Come Closer 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 missed the character of the man he was portraying, 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.” 13 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, which probable, and which stood no chance at all. The same process was then followed for the leading of the part was displayed. Some seemed 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 of the kind of character they were playing, parts. Their performances were uniform imitations of Each actor, no matter how good or how bad, was 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!” had reached the lobby. “What on earth are you doing here?” “I’m afraid you don’t read your call in a play doctor to try to fix things up, but he finally decided, and very sensibly, that it would be easier to just throw the whole thing out. I’m afraid

<question>:
Which of the following was not an element of the audition process?

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A People had to improvise in-character to show that they understood their mannerisms and how they'd act in certain situations
B People had to read for the role they chose if their physical appearance matched well with the character
C People had to initially select the specific role they were auditioning for
D People had to read through the entire script within a few days

<answer>:

A