Sentence examples for difficulty of casting from inspiring English sources

"Funny Girl" ran on Broadway from 1964 to 1967 and earned eight Tony nominations but won none - whipped that year by "Hello, Dolly!" Ms. Streisand won an Academy Award for best actress for the 1968 movie version of "Funny Girl," but the musical itself has never been revived on Broadway - a measure of the difficulty of casting Fanny.

Marki Costello, who has cast 36 game shows and reality series, was surprised a few months ago by the difficulty of casting "Next Action Star," an NBC reality offering produced in part by Joel Silver, the executive behind the "Matrix" series.

For years, David O. Selznick held the movie rights to "The Dove," but he never produced an adaptation of the novel, unquestionably because of the difficulty of casting the three principal roles and of finding an adapter who could satisfactorily cope with the dramatization.

By the way, some of the production's preopening publicity centered on the difficulty of casting the role of the cat Holly never gets to naming.

Despite the difficulties of casting, by the 5th century BC bronze was already the preferred material for free-standing sculptures across the Greek world.

But given the technical difficulties of casting and counting write-in ballots, and the fact that the mayor is not eligible to serve again because of term limits, Mr. Pataki was all but inviting people to invalidate their votes.

In an interview in 2000 with Netribution, a British film industry Web site, Ms. Selway discussed some of the difficulties of casting, including the "inverted snobbery" of directors who do not want to use the best actor for a part because another director has used him.

Hays got together with Mayer, and some days later MGM dropped It Can't Happen Here, on the grounds of "casting difficulties".

There was some difficulty in casting the part prior to the start of the series in 1995, with a reported lack of young Asian actors to choose from.

A survey of the 2012 November General Election conducted by Doug Kruse and Lisa Schur of Rutgers University found that 30percentt of voters with disabilities and 8percentt of voters without disabilities encountered at least one difficulty in casting their ballot.

He said he had difficulty casting some of the roles, because Palestinian actors didn't want to be involved in the production.