Sunday, January 10, 2010
It’s not easy for a new cast to keep a Broadway hit successful
The Boston Globe: "Such was the challenge facing Robert Fox and Stuart Thompson, lead producers behind “God of Carnage,’’ Yasmina Reza’s Tony-winning comedy that did boffo business with its original performers and now has been recast with Jimmy Smits, Christine Lahti, Annie Potts, and Ken Stott."
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I never thought of re-casting a play once the original cast moved on as a major undertaking. I always thought of the process as something similar to replacing members of a sports team, since while they have to play together well, they also have to have enough individual talent to stay afloat. The challenges with re-casting within a TV show has it's challenges since it requires the weekly audience to accept a new actor, but given that the same audience does not see the same play week after week, I do not fully understand the challenge.
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