In my last year of high school we were going to do a play titled
OTMA: Four Sisters based in January 1913. There were songs, and the History Department was behind the historical accuracy. Out of the female roles they needed three mezzo sopranos for Olga, Tatiana and Maria and two altos for Anastasia and Alexandra but you also needed to know how to act.
I auditioned for one of the girls-it didn't matter-and auditioned with
A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes from
Cinderella. That Monday I was given the role of Tatiana. The play was impressive as a whole; the dresses matched the ones from pictures (the colours guessed or taken from books and letters), hairstyles from that year for example. It was amazing to star in.
Anyway, a friend noticed that I was cast not because of my singing but because of my height for instant, general bossiness and comparing pictures I did look like her. So I would play Tatiana.