Mis-casting in ballet -- do it yourself
I was browsing in the invaluable No Fixed Points (Nancy Reynolds) and came across the following example of incredible mis-casting.
Jose Limon's "The Moor's Pavane" with an all-star cast of Rudolf Nureyev, Karen Kain, Paolo Bortoluzzi and Margot Fonteyn.
Anna Kisselgoff described this as "very much like kicking a football on a baseball diamond."
Have you seen -- or can you imagine -- any comparable examples of choosing the wrong people for a wonderful ballet?
P.S. Anyone know the details of
Mikhail Baryshnikov as Albrecht (yes I know he danced it and words can't describe how miscast he was)
Margot Fonteyn in "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue"
Alina Cojocaru as Myrtha (who would she scare? No one)
Natalia Makarova in Petit's Carmen (and I know she danced that too)
Maya Plisetskaya as Cinderella
Tatiana Terekhova, Wendy Whelan as Giselle
Gillian Murphy as Nikya or Mary Vetsera
Erik Bruhn as Puck in Balanchine's MND or Ashton's "The Dream". Erik Bruhn as Ali the Slave in "Le Corsaire.