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- GRAPEVINE, Page 31You Mean God Isn't English?
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- The casting contretemps over Miss Saigon may have been
- resolved, but the reverberations continue. When American actor
- Ken Page was cast as God in the forthcoming London musical
- Children of Eden, the British actors' union prepared to lodge
- an official protest. How could audiences accept a Yank as the
- Almighty? Director John Caird countered that he had auditioned
- British actors for the part, and all were, well, inadequate.
- British Equity backed off, but an official noted dryly that the
- union "welcomes talented foreign artists working in our country
- even when they are required to play such an obviously British
- part as God." The production will begin previews with Page in
- December.
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