Word: casted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pereda had been the armed forces' preferred candidate for President. The difficulty with the election was that he turned out to be the choice on entirely too many ballots. The electoral court noted that there were 49,412 more votes cast than there were registered Bolivian voters. Pereda had been credited with 50.13% of the total vote when the counting stopped, less than two-thirds completed...
...just sweet 13 but already Brooke Shields has played a prepubescent prostitute in Louis Malle's movie Pretty Baby. For her next role in Wanda Nevada, precocious Brooke is cast as an aspiring singer named Wanda who escapes from a Nevada orphanage and roams the West with a two-bit gambler named Baudray D'Emerillo (Peter Fonda). "I'm still playing the part of a girl who wants to be older, but this time there's none of that sex business involved," says Brooke. Even nicer, she has established a rapport with Co-Star Fonda...
This production has been transplanted from the Juilliard Theater Center, and to judge by the cast, the school is nur turing some of the best and the brightest in their craft...
Even as good an actress as Jean Marsh is not well cast as Viola. She has some fine comic bits, to be sure, but her studied performance in general lacks Redgrave's sparkle. And she scants much of the lovely verse--such as the "damask cheek" speech, which she virtually throws away...
Decline and Fall features a cast of five performers, running through a repertoire of anywhere between 32 and 35 songs (the program lists 35, but they skipped three) in a briskly-paced two-hour show. Almost all are excellent singers, and even those who don't quite measure up vocally more than make up for it with stage presence, comic sense, and charm. Staged in a mixed dinner theater (the words strike terror into the hearts of serious actors and patrons alike) and cabaret atmosphere--both drinks and dinner are available in addition to the admission fee--this excellent revue...