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Sorry, by the strange casting of the kids being played by adults (minus Charlie), I lost all interest in this.

disneybroadwayfan22 said: "Sorry, by the strange casting of the kids being played by adults (minus Charlie), I lost all interest in this.

So did I. 

 

Not sure how the casting for the rest of the children will work out, but Jackie Hoffman and John Rubinstein are the first two names to get me interested in this. Very happy that they'll both be back on Broadway. 

Lots of shows cast child actors with no more expense....they don't have to double and triple cast them as we've seen more recently.  

 

I SUPPOSE the reason has more to do with Charlie's being "normal" and the other children being caricatures -- and this helping point it out even more?

 

To be honest, I didn't have much interest in this to begin with, this doesn't change that in any way.

Was it cast  like this in London?

I'm not sure how I feel about the adult as children. If anything I think it'll prove Charlie's youthfulness and innocence. All four of the adults playing kids are killer performers so I'm excited for that! I wish Anthony Rosenthal was playing Charlie though. 

Is anyone really expecting this to be anything more than a tourist machine? (As tourist machines go, it could be perfectly entertaining mindless froth; it could also be deadly, I suppose.)

I have no real interest in this show, but if I did it would be because of Jackie Hoffman's involvement, who always manages to steal a scene or two. 

I can see how this would work with adult-adults if you did it in a Spelling Bee way, but why then cast one actual child?

I wonder if the child roles will end up being apart of a track since they aren't major roles. It would sort of justify using adults. I also thought Aidan Gemme was confirmed for Charlie. I could have sworn I saw a promotional photo with him and christian. Did he over grow or did his voice break?

LizzieCurry said: "I can see how this would work with adult-adults if you did it in a Spelling Bee way, but why then cast one actual child?

 

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Well, to be fair, they cast three actual children. 

This was discussed weeks and weeks ago, the adults-as-children casting. Not sure why everyone is so surprised. 

I think the cast is superb and am very excited to see this. Even more so than before. 

We had a mix of children and adults as children in the British production of MATILDA, didn't we? They used more kids in the Broadway- I just remember the almost Brian Blessed-like voice of one of the "kids" during "School Song" on the OLC.