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<text id=90TT2615>
<title>
Oct. 01, 1990: You Mean God Isn't English?
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Oct. 01, 1990 David Lynch
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
GRAPEVINE, Page 31
You Mean God Isn't English?
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<body>
<p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
</p>
<p> 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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</body>
</article>
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