Sentence examples for a versatile cast from inspiring English sources

Jennie Witton, Bethan Langford, Samuel Smith, Alex Knox and, as the querulous composer Herbert Howells, Nicholas Allen led a versatile cast.

With Brenda Rae in the title role, musically and physically skilful but slightly lacking in vocal heft, and a versatile cast featuring Nicky Spence, poignant and credible as Alwa, Sarah Connolly harrowing as the devastated Countess Geschwitz, Willard White dignified as the mysterious Schigolch and James Morris, once a great Wotan, repulsively impressive as Dr Schön/Jack the Ripper.

Whatever the answer, the evening is a piece of sustained grand guignol, is deftly designed by Naomi Wilkinson so that a revolving stage whisks us from one story to the next and is well acted by a versatile cast: George Rainsford as the cane-brandishing Foxley and Selina Griffiths as the vengeful Mrs Pearl, puffing cigarette smoke into her late husband's optical nerve, certainly take the eye.

Ms. Leslie and Ms. Lee's naturalistic performances are set into relief by a versatile supporting cast that sprints through a variety of races and genders.

The same versatile cast quicksilvers between crass comic cliche, haunting song and searing emotional power.

And Stu Barker's haunting music and the ceaselessly versatile cast of six highlight the mythic ideal that liberty can only be achieved after one has undergone ritual tests and trials.

Other versatile cast members also sang multiple smaller roles, including Alfred Walker as the memory vendor and a mysterious man in a helmet; Rebecca Jo Loeb as the young boy and a bellhop; and Tichina Vaughn as an ominous palm reader who tells of the past rather than predicting the future.

In the Theatre Royal Haymarket production of Richard Bean's newspaper and police farce Great Britain, the main role of a red-top editor passes from Billie Piper to Lucy Punch, while for the transfer to the Vaudeville theatre of the musical revue Forbidden Broadway, one of the startlingly versatile cast of four, Sophie-Louise Dann, has been replaced by Christina Bianco.

For the last five years Ms. Szymko has worked in close collaboration with Ms. Lane to create lyrical works that take Do Jump's fearless, versatile cast of six swooping through the air on rings and trapezes in patterns as intricately choreographed as any Balanchine ballet.

Still, the versatile cast clicks, and the creative simplicity of Sydney Maresca's costumes works.

(Campbell's belly, liberally exposed, is a laugh magnet all by itself). Amanda Blake Davis as Mrs. Cratchit and Jean Villepique as Tiny Tim round out the versatile cast whose role-hopping ease and comic acuity reaffirm Second City's storied history.