I'd have taken whatever role I was offered; I'm pretty easygoing about that sort of thing. I figure any show worth doing will have something to recommend every role in it.

I should say that it wasn't a foregone conclusion, at least that way: if somebody else had auditioned and been a better fit, they'd have got it. It's just that the local pool of male talent for musicals is so small that the director had a pretty good idea in advance who was likely to get which role, and didn't mind saying so. (All the other blokes hanging out in the waiting room when I went in for my audition had already been in themselves, and they'd been told which role they were likely to be offered as well.)