| I thought he and Petula Clark were quite inspired as replacements, highly successful on their own terms. As the tortured Mickey, replacing Con O'Neill (who was searing and so authentic, the whole show bent toward serving his performance) Cassidy was perhaps not ideally cast (he seemed actually more like the role his brother Shaun played), but he was game and ultimately winning, and he made my favorite number in the Willy Russell musical -- the lonely child's lament of laments, "Sunday Afternoon" -- haunting and sad. |
