Joseph at the Palladium / U.K. Tour

To be honest, I’d rather they just cast the best person for the job, and who will sell tickets to make the production a profit. They have announced TWO cast members, one of whom played a major part in a previous revival.

The assumption of bias is what negates your argument though.

The ‘best’ in this instance imo actually means the ‘right’ person. The most talented person can still be the worst sort of person and if they aren’t the right fit for a company, they aren’t the going to find employment on talent alone. 

I do. I wanted Julie Andrews as the bird woman.

Though color blind/color conscious casting is always welcome, MP features actors of European descent playing posh white Brits in the early 1900s. Charlie Stemp is a star of the hour, and I'm happy to see he's getting another high-profile role.

I'm specifically flagging race-issues in the Joseph thread because the characters in Joseph are from ancient Israel and Egypt. And here we are. I don't think I'm being completely unreasonable when I see issues with these choices. 

^ he does look good.

Sheridan's response to this is interesting (sorry, I'm a Luddite, can't show you the tweet), in which she says, "Just a side note - it was gonna be played by a man ....... "

Now, does she mean for the forthcoming show, before she was cast, or does she mean when the show was originally written?

What's this "We shouldn't be pitting women against each other" nonsense? As a woman, I don't understand that. Apart from anything else, saying "I prefer female performer A to female performer B (or male performer A to male performer B) in this role" is what we tend to do when we've seen more than one person playing a particular role. As long as it doesn't descend into nastiness, I have no problem with performers being compared.

Given that previous narrators have tended to be strong singers, it's understandable that people have questioned the casting of Sheridan, who's more of an actress than a singer.

The argument they’re making is about the idea that women are always in competition with each other rather than with men.

The illusion that the patriarchy likes to project is that for a woman to be successful, they are in competition with the other women for the one woman slot. This is how women who end being the lone successful woman have historically been scared to send down a ladder to help other women climb up. It’s also why there are 30million plots where women compete over men and with their female friends.

I call it a scarcity mindset. The illusion is that there is finite opportunity for women (and anyone who isn’t from the group with the power and influence) and so the people who aren’t (in the UK context) middle class straight white men, need to fight among themselves to get on. When, in fact, they could create some opportunity/power and/or take it from the group who are carefully guarding it.

You realize that this conversation wasn't about Charlie Stemp, his star-power or lack of?

Without sounding too pedantic...what does all this have to do with Joseph?

Calling it now...Martin Lewis for Joseph.

...although Matthew Croke wouldn’t be a bad shout.