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The two said that led to some rather strange casting conversations: “Would we want to die with this person?” they’d ask themselves.

“I still had the face, and that’s what casting directors, producers and directors saw when I would go in to read for a role,” he told E! network in 1999.

“Lazarus” arrives in the wake of “Common Side Effects,” another series casting the pharmaceutical industry as its own plague on the human condition.

The casting reflects the distinct identities and histories of the members, each offering something different to lovelorn girls and copycat boys so intoxicated by Beatlemania.

The play's writer, Gary Owen, said when he began to write the story Sheen was his "dream casting" - but he had never imagined it becoming a reality.