Want to know a producer's nightmare? An actor who quits a production after being cast. It's only happened to me two or three times in the past 5 years, but the possibility often haunts me. Casting is so difficult (for everyone involved), so time-consuming, and so precarious once complete, that losing an actor can be heartbreaking.

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