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Input: Backstory: I auditioned last week for my middle/high school’s production of High School Musical. I felt really good about my audition, I sang really well for once, and I thought that my line reads were good. I was really hoping I’d get a Troy or Chad.

Good news: I got Chad

Bad News: My sister got Taylor, the character’s love interest.

So I check the cast list, see my name as Chad, and am super excited. But when I see my sister as Taylor, my heart drops. Now, don’t get me wrong, my sister’s a great singer and actress, and she deserved Taylor. She was as good as anyone else at the audition, but she was in 6th grade, so I didn’t expect her to get the part. I wasn’t even concerned. The theater group chat I’m in is 20% roasting me (dicks but I love them so that didn’t hurt me or anything), and 80% “oh god that’s kinda fucked”. I talk to my parents about it, and then I text one of my three directors asking what the extent of their relationship is, and she says they have a couple of lines at the end involving it, but she’s “willing to adjust”.  Now just the fact that they have a romantic relationship makes me uncomfortable, especially considering most of the other people in my school have seen high school musical, so they’d know the characters are romantically involved, and know my sister, so I’d probably get insulted and shit for months. Either way, still willing to negotiate, Coach Bolton, a much smaller role, is marked as TBA and I’d be willing to take him, but I really would’ve liked Chad because we have a awards show in our area and it’s my last year I’ll be able to participate, I’m moving. Now about 20 minutes ago, my father calls from the play he’s in right now where two of the said directors are present. 

It turns out they’d never even read the script for the play they’re directing or seen the movie. 

Now, I’m incredibly pissed. Who doesn’t read the script before casting a show? I’m so angry at this point I’m considering just quitting without hearing their other avenues. Is that fair? I really have no interest in dealing with people who had their first read of the script after the casting, and I definitely don’t want to be with my sister. So Reddit, WIBTA?


quitting a play because they cast my sister and I as a couple