Cast Offers / Reserves / Cast Updates
Having read various posts on this thread, my take on the whole email thing from the Casting team is as follows.
I know that there are a few of us on here who've received not only Cast Offers but also Cast Updates, whilst there are many of us who received Cast Offers but no updates. Then there's the "no response", "reserves" and "holdings".
Having had a think about the whole process, my belief is Segments that received "Cast Update" emails are the Segments that are full. The Segments that have not received Cast Updates, the Cast Team are most probably finalising numbers for those relevant Segments and once those Segments are full, not only will any outstanding Cast Offer emails be sent but also those emails will be followed by a whole Segment Cast Update email. My reasoning behind this is that they'll probably would want to save time sending one generic email to everybody in one hit, rather than sending Updates to those who've already been cast, then having to send the same email to newly selected volunteers separately at a later date.
Top of their priority will most probably be the Segments who will be auditioning first (i.e. beginning / mid April) and then later on, concentrating on the Segments that have the later rehearsal dates.
As for the "reserves", "not heards" and "holdings", as mentioned a few times on here and I know it sounds corney saying the same cliche but I'm sure that they're trying to find which Segments would be best and as mentioned before, you have to factor in the "drop outs" factor.
Apologies for my non-comment with regards to the meetup on Saturday. Unfortunately I will not be able to go as I'll be on training course that weekend. Will be thinking of you guys in your "pinks" and will be there in spirit.