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Sam and Friends BookThe recent Chris appreciation thread, and the talks about him being the new David and everything, I got to thinking...
I remember reading in the Sesame Street Unpaved book that when the show was being put together, that agents and casting people weren't the ones who hired Will Lee, Bob McGrath, Loretta Long, or Matt Robinson for their roles of Mr. Hooper, Bob, Susan, and Gordon, but rather children who enjoyed their audition performances the most (one rather cute anecdote was Loretta Long wasn't prepared to sing for audition, so she did a rather charismatic, gospely version of "I'm a Little Teapot", that apparently got little kids to jump out of their seats to dance and sing along with her when they watched); I got curious and wanted to know if with recent new humans on the show (Chris and Leela recently, and even all the way back to Alan in 1998) were casted the same way?
I remember reading in the Sesame Street Unpaved book that when the show was being put together, that agents and casting people weren't the ones who hired Will Lee, Bob McGrath, Loretta Long, or Matt Robinson for their roles of Mr. Hooper, Bob, Susan, and Gordon, but rather children who enjoyed their audition performances the most (one rather cute anecdote was Loretta Long wasn't prepared to sing for audition, so she did a rather charismatic, gospely version of "I'm a Little Teapot", that apparently got little kids to jump out of their seats to dance and sing along with her when they watched); I got curious and wanted to know if with recent new humans on the show (Chris and Leela recently, and even all the way back to Alan in 1998) were casted the same way?
