Until relatively recently, when a casting director had a gig, he or she had two options. One was to call Back Stage or Drama Logue (which in 1998 was bought out by Back Stage) and list the casting notice in print. Come Thursday, actors would feverishly turn to the casting pages and do their own submissions for commercials, theater, and film. The second option was to give Breakdown Services the info. It would then send a fax (picture dot-matrix printers) to every agent and manager. In response, the reps would shove headshots and résumés into envelopes and pay messenger services to crisscross the town. In turn, casting offices would cut open stacks of envelopes, putting the headshots into three piles: "Perfect," "Maybe," and "No Way." Paper cuts were endemic. In 1998, Breakdown Services added Showfax, which allowed actors to receive sides, first by fax and later by email.In the new millennium,...
- 11/4/2009
- backstage.com
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