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What the second-year player was unhappy with was the type of people an open call for tryouts might attract, considering the tone of some of the responses she had seen to the Sparks’ online ad.

Making her feature film debut, Bode came to play the character, who’s used a wheelchair since birth, via an open call.

Since it was important to production that the character be voiced by an autistic child, Whittick reached out to the support group at Grandview Children’s Center in Ontario, Canada, a community she is a part of, and posted an open call for the audition.

She’d just filmed her first professional job — playing Queen Latifah’s niece in “Barbershop 2,” a role she auditioned for at an open call in Chicago — and MGM invited her to the Hollywood premiere.

The “Newsies” video came to be after Broadway Votes co-founders Catherine Markowitz and Nelini Stamp wrapped up an informational call with Menken with an open call to work together on something, someday.