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So you are going to tell me that Dustin Hoffman was just as qualified to play Malcolm X as Denzil Washington?
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I've never seen Dustin play Malcom X, and I suspect neither have you, so we both have no idea on the subject
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You are going to tell me that Barry Manilow is as qualified to play Eliza Doolittle as Audrey Hepburn?
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Ditto.
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I have seen the exact same show directed by the exact same director with slight casting changes...the show changes.
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Well, in my opinion, this lineup (basically, the inclusion of the rap, it's pretty much the only problem I have with the whole album) is not the best.
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No one actor or actress is an end all be all.
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But stricly speaking, this is a music album, it's not a play.
Not even a radio play like War Of The Worlds.
Your lead is the one carrying most of the show.
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Further, the team that produced and directed this album envisioned the story with certain players and will reference something I have said earlier...to have Meat Loaf play all the roles would have changed the final story they had to tell.
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And it was all very well done.
I think it's a very good album.
But I think the two raps were downers.
There is twice on the album where i'll be off in the land of rock and singing along, drumming my fingers, tapping my foot, and pretty much in the world of the music, and then i'm pulled out of that thinking "oh shit" and both times are when it gets to the rap.
It's like having some git wake you up in the middle of a great dream.
They just don't work for me at all.