But when first-cast David Hallberg performs the male role (he also stepped in to partner Ms. Wiles at one performance when Mr. Beloserkovsky was injured), despite the attentive partnering he bestows on his consort, this divertissement starts to become a vehicle primarily for the male, not the female, lead.
Princess, who is nine, didn't like the color of her face when John first cast her.
Mr. Merwin was 3 and living in a converted mill house on his grandfather's farm in Wilton, Conn., when he first cast a line into water.
When the first casting announcements for Tarantino's upcoming film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, started coming out earlier this year, it was easy to get excited.
As Ms. Stallings Lippert, the mother of Carolyn, remembers it, "When I was first cast, it was pure elation".
When Jeanette was first cast as Kitri in "Don Quixote" in 2006, Patricia, who was not cast, jumped in to soothe her before a performance.
Reportedly now the highest paid actress in the world, the 25-year-old was a relative unknown when she was first cast as Katniss Everdeen.
Pattinson was 22 when he was first cast as Edward Cullen in the Twilight Saga, the five-part movie adaptation of Stephanie Meyer's best-selling teen vampire novels.
Such was the case for Jennifer Lawrence, whose blonde hair and supposedly heavy frame (she's a size 10) caused consternation among devotees of the book when she was first cast as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games adaptation.
It deserves to be the millstone around his neck.Conceived in the early 1990s when Mr Ozawa first cast himself as a reformer of Japanese politics, the dam has cost an estimated 244 billion yen ($2.9 billion) yet is still unfinished.
