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Compare [[Cross-Dressing Voices]], which is the voice acting equivalent. In a common [[Casting Gag]], you can often expect crosscast roles to cause [[Recursive Crossdressing]]. Contrast with [[Gender Flip]], in which a character is reimagined or rewritten to be the opposite sex, but the actor plays a character of their own sex.
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* Several of the productions from ''[[Kaleido Star]]'' feature females in male roles. Ana especially tends to play male characters.
* In ''[[Ranma ½]]'', Akane has been stuck playing Romeo in school plays because she was the only one athletic enough for the role. Finally, she gets a chance to play Juliet, but there's still a problem casting her love interest
* The [[Live Action Adaptation]] of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' [[What the Hell, Casting Agency?|infamously]] cast a ten-year-old girl as Negi. Of course, this was the least of its problems.
* An in-universe example in ''[[K-On!]]'', when the main characters' class puts on a production of ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' for their school festival. As it's an all-girls school, the male parts are played by girls. Zig-zagged in that the class votes to have the resident [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]] play the title roles, with the tomboy as Juliet and the girly girl as Romeo.
* In ''[[Wandering Son]]'', the school holds a play where all the girls play the male parts and the guys play the female parts.
* In the anime adaptation of ''[[D.N.Angel]]'' the school play is done with entirely male actors and an all-female production team. The excuse the ladies give for this decision is to respect Shakespeare and his all-male acting troupe; the ''real'' reason is that they [[Yaoi Fangirl|want to see]] the male lead and his [[Ambiguously Gay]] [[The Rival|rival]], cast as the female and male leads respectively, share romantic scenes together.
== Film ==
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== Literature ==
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** Lieutenant Blouse in ''[[
** Similarly, Lady Sibyl mentions in ''[[
* Jack Aubrey of Patrick O'Brian's [[Aubrey-Maturin]] series proudly mentions having played
▲== Live Action TV ==
* Sophie of ''[[Leverage]]'' plays Willie Loman in ''Death of a Salesman''; she's so [[Giftedly Bad]] that Nate doesn't realize that she's playing him as a man, leading to a particularly cringeworthy [[Compliment Backfire]].
* [[Lassie (TV series)|Lassie]] was usually played by a male dog, as the males of "her" breed have a longer, more luxurious "summer coat" than the females.
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* The Duchess in the Royal Ballet's 2011 ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' is played by a man.
* The role of Edwin Drood in the musical version of ''[[The Mystery of Edwin Drood]]''. Announced by the Chairman as being played by the "famous male impersonator, Miss Alice Nutting."
== Western Animation ==
* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''{{'}}s last episode before the [[Grand Finale]], the Gaang go and see a play based on the entire series up to that point.
** In a reference to ''[[Peter Pan]]'', they find Aang (the lightly-build, hyperactive twelve-year-old), is played by a petite woman. While Aang (and the rest of the group) is disappointed with the entire portrayal of him, the casting choice is what confuses him the most.
** On the other hand, Toph (a little blind girl, but [[Boisterous Bruiser]] and [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]] nonetheless) absolutely ''loves'' the fact that her part was played by a giant, muscly man.
*** And Sokka sneaks backstage to offer tips and jokes to the actor who's portraying him.
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* In the [[Mickey Mouse]] [[Classic Disney Shorts|short]] "Mickey's Mellerdrammer" (which is about Mickey and the game performing in a play based on ''Uncle Tom's Cabin''), Mickey himself not only plays the title role of Uncle Tom, but he also plays Topsy.
* ''[[Bob's Burgers]]'' reverses the women-as-boys trend, with both wife Linda and pubescent daughter Tina being played by men.
* In the ''[[My Little Pony:
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