This Chenoweth discussion takes me back to the Zeta-Jones casting in "Night Music." I felt she was too young -- not in chronological age, but in presentation -- and it made Desiree's dilemma weaker. Johns, originally, may have been close to the same age, but suggested a very different life experience and world-weariness. Many others disagreed. (The stakes were raised when Peters went in, and I loved her Desiree.) The Chenoweth Dolly idea is easily a version of the same conversation.
