Word: miscasts
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...have been times when the lure of the zeros was simply too great." It may have been those seductive zeros that reunited him with Taylor last year in a national tour of Noël Coward's Private Lives; each reportedly was paid $70,000 a week. Grotesquely miscast, Liz and Dick endured perhaps their ultimate humiliation...
Almost too bold and imaginative, Hang On to Me offers hints of the wonderful things Sellars may yet do, but does not do in this ungainly production. Although his cast of 26 is skillful and professional, he has wildly miscast some roles. Several of his players are too old for their parts; some are not attractive enough to justify the admiration the play says they capture. The production, with one intermission, runs more than four grueling hours. It would be pleasant to report that Sellars' experiment in cultural détente is a brilliant failure. But that would...
Robert Joy, while a fine actor, seems somewhat miscast as Huckleberry. He seems too uncomfortably Eastern to make a convincing Mississippi urchin Big River's Huck lacks the lazy, shrewd kind of cool that made I wam's hero so memorable...
These women were and are accomplished actresses. Diane Venora, who is fumbling with Shakespeare's greatest role at Joseph Papp's Public Theater, is an unseasoned neophyte of 29 who is woefully miscast in this ever-so-demanding part. If the intent of the casting was to display the womanly aspects of Hamlet's nature, this production fails abominably. Venora is the most macho Hamlet to appear in years. For much of the evening, she struts about like a fascist bullyboy...
...universal language, but theater is not. Any British play receiving a U.S. production can find not only its accent but its meaning changed. In its transatlantic crossing, Duet for One has been all but torpedoed out of the water. The unguided missiles of its destruction are a miscast director and star...