The best things about this one - Gene Saks's ingenious staging, Cy Coleman's varied, affable music and an exceptional cast once - seemed somehow better.

Mr. Kosminsky attributed his exceptional cast to the regard in which Ms. Fitch's novel is held in Los Angeles.

Ms. Queler's exceptional cast concentrated more on the musical dimension.

The appeal of Chicago's "Ring" has to do with the exceptional cast: a compendium of the best on the Wagner circuit.

In an exceptional cast, John Cassavetes (in photo with Farrow) is her enigmatic spouse.

The first thing to wriggle free from these attention-grabbing surroundings was the exceptional cast.

The directors draw vibrant portrayals from the exceptional cast.

Yet as an exceptional cast proved on Saturday, its unhurried pace can shimmer with poetry and magic.

It is daunting to imagine what sitting through "Oedipus" would be like without the exceptional cast with which Mr. Clubb has been blessed.

In an exceptional cast, cheers for the chorus, in or out of drag, and the most cohesive ensemble yet seen at the Paper Mill.