I feel your pain. I directed an all-campus variety show in college where I had several friends audition... and I couldn't cast them all. It was the WORST feeling at the time.
I did that whole "dance" in my head... between going for the best person vs. casting a close friend that you know will do well, but NOT as well as some of the others.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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