What A Cast!

“So, you want to direct a show with an all-male cast (virtually… but we’ll get to that later)?  Twelve of them?  Are you crazy?  Good luck with that!”  Those are the thoughts expressed to me when news of this show first got out.  And, I can’t say that in the back of my own mind, I didn’t wonder just a little.  But, as the saying goes “If you build it, they will come.”  

What I mean to say is that I held to the belief that familiarity with/love of the classic movie, the quality of the script and the opportunity it presents to an actor would be enough to attract some of Red Deer’s finest.   And that’s exactly what happened.  I am thrilled to be working with this group of guys… and Vicki (our Court Clerk and the rose among the thorns!).  And maybe even more exciting is that our cast is made up of many faces that Red Deer has either never seen, or hasn’t seen in a long while.    And, an added treat has been the chance to involve Monica Bast as our judge. Here’s how the line-up looks:

 

	Our cast	Who played the role in the 1957 movie version?	Who played the role in the 1997 movie version?
Foreman	Owen Clark	Martin Balsam	Courtney Vance
Juror #2	Keith Edwards	John Fiedler	Ossie Davis
Juror #3	Nigel Lane	Lee J. Cobb	George C. Scott
Juror #4	Jason Lee	E.G. Marshall	Armin Mueller-Stahl
Juror #5	Tom Brushett	Jack Klugman	Dorian Harewood
Juror #6	John Deguara	Edward Binns	James Gandolfini
Juror #7	Derrek Seelinger	Jack Warden	Tony Danza
Juror #8	Robert Van der Linden	Henry Fonda	Jack Lemmon
Juror #9	Lionel Lustgarten	Joseph Sweeney	Hume Cronyn
Juror #10	Albert Azzara	Ed Begley	Mykelli Williamson
Juror #11	Geurtjen Zwiggelaar	George Voskovec	Edward James Olmos
Juror #12	David Weiss	Robert Webber	William Petersen
Court Clerk	Vicki Dykes	James Kelly	Tyrees Allen
Judge	Monica Bast	Rudy Bond	Mary McDonnell