21. On your first cast, no less. 22. On my first cast, I got a tremendous strike, set the hook, and then, just as fast, the line broke. 23. The first cast also includes Youngok Shin and Florence Quivar, with James Levine conducting. 24. The day of their first cast meeting there, the earthquake here caused their Northridge apartment such severe damaged it had to be condemned. 25. The first Los Angeles cast -- not counting a star-studded benefit last February at the Wiltern Theatre -- features Perez, Julianna Margulies and Julie Kavner. 26. The technique that those companies project so powerfully was beyond this first cast. 27. The task becomes clear once you realize that the first cast you threw your whole body into will be followed by many, many more. 28. This was the first time cast members worked as volunteers. 29. Vladimir Chernov, having recovered from the illness that kept him out of the first cast, joins the production as Germont. |