And, happily, placed in the mouths of two extraordinary actors.
But it does take daring chances with a book that could not have been adapted otherwise, using extraordinary actors to rise above its occasional lapses.
In addition to being an extraordinary actor, Georgi Cherkelov has also staged a number of plays.
He's an extraordinary actor, and you wanted someone to hold the frame as well as he can.
Instead, here were these four extraordinary actors who created this incredibly compelling theater production, playing a total of 22 characters.
An extraordinary actor, director and man of the theater.
Yet for 80 years it has drawn extraordinary actors and directors.
As is customary with this extraordinary actor, he is almost unrecognizable from role to role.
He's generous, drunk, mean, noble, confused: all of those ordinary qualities that only an extraordinary actor can make real.
"You have so many extraordinary actors who will come in and do day parts because they're on Broadway and working here."