GMAT Club Olympics 2024 (Day 2): An amateur theatre troupe needs

Ringer
Theatre troupes often deliver exceptional performances when they cast professional actors.""
This principle supports the idea that bringing in a professional actor ("Ringer") could lead to exceptional performances. It emphasizes the potential benefits of casting someone with professional experience, which aligns with the goal of making a good impression at a prestigious festival.
Ans E

Troupe member
"An organization should not alter regular practices unless they have failed to produce results."
This principle suggests sticking with the troupe's regular practice of casting roles from among its members unless there is evidence that this approach has not been successful.
Ans B

Ringer
Theatre troupes often deliver exceptional performances when they cast professional actors.
As an important event is coming to hire a professional actor may ensure success and in combination with the history is likely that when a Theatre troupes cast professional actors it will be a success.

Cast from the troupe
An organization should not alter regular practices unless they have failed to produce results.

As the formula of casting all roles from among its members has bringing successful performances it is highly probable to success again.

Theatre troupes often deliver exceptional performances when they cast professional actors. (Ringer)
theatre troupe should cast actors with the most experience in stage acting in lead roles. (Cast)

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­Troupe wants to cast a "ringer" because managers are eager to make a good impression => Option E strengthens this.
Typically, the troupe casts all roles from among its members, and this strategy has led to some of their most successful shows => Option B strengthens this.

Only competitor for ringer option is C & E. However, E does not ensure a 100% success. So, a experienced in stage will be a better option for lead role. So option C

Here, to offer a role to a professional does not mean that any of its member will get isolated. So, to take care not to alienate does not fit good. However, to break the combination which has been proved successful may not be a good thing.  So option B 

C & B­

­Answer and explanation: 
Ringer - Theatre troupes often deliver exceptional performances when they cast professional actors.
As a professional actor with experience in stage and film could help deliver exceptional performances.

Cast from the troupe - An organization should not alter regular practices unless they have failed to produce results.
As the troupe casts all roles from among its members, a strategy that has helped them put on some of their most successful shows.
 

­Both our selected options need to justify an opposite choice: one should be in favour of a guest, another for the troupe actor. The benefit of a 'local' acor can be proven historically: a strategy that has helped them put on some of their most successful shows. As for the invited actor, we don't have any specific information added about it in the argument.

Let's look at the answer options:

• Any actor would be eager to play a lead role at a festival this prestigious.

This one is neither here nor there and doesn't help with productivity and quality.

• An organization should not alter regular practices unless they have failed to produce results.

This option is strong, given we don't really know about the negative historical results - we only know some of the most successful shows were organized like that. This is the right answer (II).

• A theatre troupe should cast actors with the most experience in stage acting in lead roles.

This option is good, but we don't know for sure who has more experience in lead roles, the ringer or some troupe actors, given they've also performed quite a few plays already.

• In casting any role, a theatre troupe must take care not to alienate its members.

A good idea, but we aren't persuaded in the argument that choosing an outsider actor will necessarily alienate anyone.

• Theatre troupes often deliver exceptional performances when they cast professional actors.

A positive possibility if a professional is invited. Looks like the right answer (I).



Therefore, ringer is supported by option E/5, and torupe cast is supported by the option B/2.­

 
troupe - lead role,  managers are eager to make a good impression and invites to perform at festival are rare
typiclly all roles from among its members

ringer - a professional actor with experience in stage and film.­

for a ringer - argument is troupe should cast if they delivery exceptional performances are tthe troupe's strategy so far has been mostly successful. At prestigious festival they want to delier more.

cast from troupe - Typically organisation casts among its members and this strategy has helped them to put successful shows. Hence An organization should not alter regular practices unless they have failed to produce results

Ringer=Any actor would be eager to play a lead role at a festival this prestigious.- as if they can cast any actor, this includes best actor in the world.
Cast from the troupe=An organization should not alter regular practices unless they have failed to produce results.- As they are successful from their original cast members--typically, the troupe casts all roles from among its members, a strategy that has helped them put on some of their most successful shows.

"Theatre troupes often deliver exceptional performances when they cast professional actors."

This principle directly supports the idea that bringing in a professional actor can lead to an exceptional performance, which aligns with the managers' goal of making a good impression at the prestigious festival.

"An organization should not alter regular practices unless they have failed to produce results."

This principle suggests sticking with the current practice of casting from among the troupe’s members because this approach has produced successful shows in the past. Therefore, it supports casting from among the troupe's regular members.

"A theatre troupe should cast actors with the most experience in stage acting in lead roles."

While this does say about casting the ones with the most experience, it could also be the case that one of the troupe members has the most experience. It doesn't directly say anything about hiring a professional actor.­

Any actor would be eager to play a lead role at a festival this prestigious.
if any actor would want to play then there's no reason to go for one and not the other. 

An organization should not alter regular practices unless they have failed to produce results.
If this is true, and the troupe normally deliver excellent shows by only casting from the troupe's members, then it shouldn't change its practice. This is an argument for casting from the troupe 

A theatre troupe should cast actors with the most experience in stage acting in lead roles.
The most experienced actors in stage acting can be either from the troupe members or a ringer. So this is an argument for neither.

In casting any role, a theatre troupe must take care not to alienate its members.
There is no obvious reason that casting a ringer or a troupe member would alienate the troupe's members. So this is an argument for neither.

Theatre troupes often deliver exceptional performances when they cast professional actors.­
If the troupes often deliver exceptional performances when they cast professional actors, then the manager should probably cast a ringer to impress. This is an argument for casting a ringer ­

the answer needs to give an irrefutable reason why to hire a ringer or why to cast from the troupe

Any actor would be eager to play a lead role at a festival this prestigious.: this works for both alternatives

An organization should not alter regular practices unless they have failed to produce results.: it says "Typically, the troupe casts all roles from among its members, a strategy that has helped them put on some of their most successful shows.", so as the regular practice of casting from the troupe has produced results it means it should cast from the troupe.

A theatre troupe should cast actors with the most experience in stage acting in lead roles.: a ringer would be the best alternative if you are looking for actors with the most experience

In casting any role, a theatre troupe must take care not to alienate its members.: this could suggest casting from the troupe but we don´t know if casting a ringer would necessarily alienate them.

Theatre troupes often deliver exceptional performances when they cast professional actors. This could suggest casting a professional actor but isn´t sufficient to discard casting from the troupe.

Answers:
ringer: A theatre troupe should cast actors with the most experience in stage acting in lead roles
cast from troupe: An organization should not alter regular practices unless they have failed to produce results.­

Ringer: Theatre troupes often deliver exceptional performances when they cast professional actors.
Cast from the troupe: An organization should not alter regular practices unless they have failed to produce results.

To determine whether the managers should cast a professional actor (ringer) or a regular member of the troupe for the lead role, let's analyze each principle based on the information provided:

Principles Analysis
"Any actor would be eager to play a lead role at a festival this prestigious."

This statement doesn't directly support either option. It merely states that any actor would be eager to play the role.
"An organization should not alter regular practices unless they have failed to produce results."

Cast from the troupe: This principle supports the idea that the managers should continue casting from among the troupe’s regular members, as this practice has previously helped them put on successful shows.
"A theatre troupe should cast actors with the most experience in stage acting in lead roles."

Ringer: This principle suggests casting a professional actor, as they are likely to have more stage acting experience compared to the regular members of the troupe.
"In casting any role, a theatre troupe must take care not to alienate its members."

Cast from the troupe: This principle suggests that casting a professional actor (ringer) might alienate the troupe’s regular members, thus supporting the idea of casting from within the troupe.
"Theatre troupes often deliver exceptional performances when they cast professional actors."

Ringer: This principle supports the idea that casting a professional actor would likely result in an exceptional performance, which is crucial given the prestige of the festival.

Final Selection
Ringer: The principle that best suggests the managers should cast a professional actor is: "Theatre troupes often deliver exceptional performances when they cast professional actors."

Cast from the troupe: The principle that best suggests the managers should cast from among the troupe’s regular members is: "An organization should not alter regular practices unless they have failed to produce results."­

 
For ringer

Imo the answer is "Theatre troupes often deliver exceptional performances when they cast professional actors."

It is the only answer that gives a reason as to why they should hire a ringer that aligns with their objectives to make a good impression (by delivering exceptional performances).

For cast from the troupe

Imo the answer is "An organization should not alter regular practices unless they have failed to produce results."

They have had successful shows this far and their strategy of picking internally has worked so this statement does the best job in suggesting that they should cast from their troupe members.­

1) Any actor would be eager to play a lead role at a festival this prestigious. : This doesn't explain why they should get a ringer or cast from the troupe. It's only States the enthusiasm of any actor to join rather than why they should join.


2) An organization should not alter regular practices unless they have failed to produce results.: Maybe the troupe has failed to produce results with their regular practices, maybe more than once.




3) A theatre troupe should cast actors with the most experience in stage acting in lead roles.: This principle does not tip the scale towards the ringer nor towards casting from the troupe since the actor with most experience in stage acting could be in either one of them.


4) Correct. In casting any role, a theatre troupe must take care not to alienate its members.: This principle suggests that the theatre troop should always consider their membersin casting and tips the scale towards Casting from the troop.


5) Correct : Theatre troupes often deliver exceptional performances when they cast professional actors. This principle suggests that most of the time, when a troupe casts a professional actor, they deliver better performance which tips the scale towards the Ringer.

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­Given that they wanted a good performance, the information that made it cast a ringer was that the play would be excpetional by casting a pro, and the info that it shouldn't alienate cast members was the choice for casting a member for the troupe