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re: Interesting take on the casting

Posted by:	enoch10 04:25 pm EDT 03/16/14
In reply to:	Interesting take on the casting - BroadwayLouBlaze 03:11 pm EDT 03/16/14

>> Do you think though that casting that "type" of actor would have just played into the lazy melodrama of the whole thing. no. not at all. i think it could have potentially saved the production. i can't stress enough how much i don't blame the actor for this. i've seen him before. he's good. i think he was miscast but the problem is still the director. miscast or not he could have been better than he was if he had just played the character as written. she had him playing jorgen tesman when he should have been playing zorba or tevya or, at the very least, some combination of eljert lovborg and judge brack. that wasn't an actor with no talent it was an actor undone by a director who didn't understand the character.

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