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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along, but assumed that I wouldn’t be available. 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 to read. read it. So I’m not at a disadvantage.” “it doesn’t matter how good these people are most “What do you think of “I think it’s wonderful! I hope more than ever that I get the part! Do you really think I have a chance?” lot of these folks are their friends. I wouldn’t want had worked with him before, as a general assistant, when they had discovered a theater. It would not be easy for him to consider Peggy for an acting role, and to do so completely without bias. It would not be a a table in a nearby coffeehouse waiting for Mal and the reverse. Mal’s sense of fair play would make him more so for Randy Brewster, the author of the play, for her friendship with him was of a different sort felt so off in my life as I did reading that part. It’s a wonder any of you even want to be seen with me!” others realize how much alike they had sounded. “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?” helplessly into a permanent attack of the giggles, replied, glad to turn her attention from what was becoming just how badly you’ve written until someone gets up and starts to read your lines.” for type. They’ll select all the possible ones, send readings later.” the lines, but this was so much like their last exchange “But what if the people they pick for looks can’t act?” Amy asked. “And what if some of the rejects are wonderful actors?” the cause of their hilarity to the boys. “because they both have a pretty good idea each explaining how good the others were and how 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.” assured manner, he calmly gave his opinion of the as any.” Then she smiled and added, “I guess I’m your age, and that’s nothing to feel bad about. If anybody ought to feel insulted, it’s me, because they asked me to try out!” with pleasant, if somewhat brisk, nods to the assembled actors and actresses, and a special smile for you ladies won’t mind. We won’t keep you waiting gentlemen waiting most of the day. Shall we get as Mal and Randy looked them over, murmured tall and athletic. As six tall, athletic, handsome young men came forward, Peggy felt that she just couldn’t stand watching the casting interviews any longer. It reminded her too much of the livestock shows she had attended as a youngster in her home she joined the actresses in the rear of the room, and found an empty seat next to a young girl. “Hi,” she said. “What’s the matter, can’t you watch that I’d do better here. Have you had any luck?” studying at the New York Dramatic Academy. I hope I can get some kind of supporting role in this play, well-formed, generous mouth and the intelligence appealing combination of strength and feminine softness. “I think you do have a chance,” Peggy said. “In fact, if you can act, I bet you’ll get the part. I’ve read if you just walked out of the script!” “And I hope you get a part, too. I have a feeling to me, too, because I’m getting near the end of “Oh, no! I’m not that naïve! But when my year is over at the Academy, I can always take a job as a typist or a secretary somewhere, while I look for with a smile, “and they made sure that I learned business, but he’s been wonderful about giving me a chance. What do your parents think of your wanting to be an actress?” that perhaps she had asked too personal a question the right type for the role. Perhaps some other....” would only give me a chance to read for you, I know that I could make you change your mind about the whom I have chosen to hear. The part calls for it. watched him go, not knowing whether to feel sorrier for him or for Mal. given copies of the play to study, marked at the passages I want to hear. Be sure to read the whole play characters you have been selected to read. You have hear you. Thank you. And now for the ladies.” though they chatted amiably with one another, looks toward others who were trying for the same parts. Keeping friendships in the theater was not an easy thing, she thought, particularly for people of similar physical types! Mal’s first concern in reviewing the actresses was, of course, for the leading role. And, of course, it was for this role that he had the most applicants. More than twenty girls came forward when the announcement was made, and Peggy thought that she had Mal went down the line, regretfully dismissing one expression hardly varied as he spoke to each to get the part! I know it!” 10 “Don’t count too much on it,” Peggy cautioned, “or you may be too bitterly disappointed if you don’t hear you read!” attention to the “career woman, early thirties” classification that Mal had called for next. Once that was out of the way, she knew it would be her turn. 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 Mal reviewed them carefully, managing to look at “The part calls for a pretty girl,” Mal said with a rare smile, “but not for a girl so pretty that she’ll dominate 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 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 The Hopefuls The audience consisted of a handful of actors and 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 and was heavily overplaying. Mal, being perhaps 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 “Thank you. We’ll let you know our decision in a day or two.” The next “businessman type” was better, but still 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. which probable, and which stood no chance at 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 each other, and all were imitations of the early acting style of Marlon Brando. They seemed to forget, Peggy thought, that Brando’s style developed from the roles he had to play, and that as he got other roles, he showed other facets of a rounded talent. It made her angry that some actors thought they could get ahead in a creative field by being imitative. treated with impersonal courtesy by Mal, and each replied. “The good ones know they’re good, and they’re not going to be discouraged by the loss of a most of them have tremendous egos to protect them from ever finding out—or even thinking—otherwise!” too, if I could without getting Mal mad at me. This with a broad grin and a quick companionable kiss. “I’m afraid you don’t read your finally decided, and very sensibly, that it would be good, so maybe I’m not any the worse for the experience.” “You mean you’re going to read for Mal?” Peggy try out for, and that he was thinking of me for it all

<question>:
Who would most likely enjoy this excerpt?

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A A grandmother who wants to relate with her granddaughter who's entering the theater industry
B Someone who likes theater and enjoys thinking about the audition process and seeing it play out
C A male actor trying to see what the audition process feels like to actresses during their auditions
D A young child who dreams to be an actress and primarily wants to hear success stories

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B