Make no mistake, the cast lacked distinction.
Since its cast lacks a major movie or reality-TV star, it didn't.
The famous Wolf's Glen scene, in which the magic bullets are cast, lacks any frisson of horror.
Resorting to uncharacteristic stock staging devices, Mr. Campo may have realized that his cast lacks potential as an ensemble, or even that the play is not as fulfilled as he might have thought.
Two Tristans (Ian Storey, Robert Dean Smith), two Isoldes (Nina Stemme, Petra Maria Schnitzer) and various Kurvenals, Brangänes and King Marks later, any real chance at dramatic continuity had fizzled; even if the audience had could have held its breath between acts, the final cast lacked a crucial sense of having shared the journey.
On the minus, the cast lacks major marquee names, and the first world war has not traditionally provided crowd-pleasing stories for the screen: the conflict was static, bogged down in trenches, highly wasteful of human life, and, unlike the second world war, not evidently in the service of a noble and just purpose.
Although Pocket Casts lacks social recommendations, it has plenty of ways to find new podcasts, from charts to themed categories.
But several of the cast lack presence, vocal power and variety, so the evening feels significantly less rich and mottled than either Sondheim or Xia surely envisaged.
On collaborative projects, there will then be necessary changes that deal with technical issues, changes of location, or cast, lack of funds – the possibilities are horribly variable and numerous and yet oddly fun.
