An annual change of cast means that many hundreds of actors and actresses have graced its boards.

BBC: Why the mouse still roars

Could the fund-raiser special change the cast members' reputations?

CNN: What's next for the cast of 'Jersey Shore'?

But there is little evidence that voters would change the way they cast their votes if the government stuck to its plans.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

Barack Obama, the senator from Illinois who cast himself as the candidate of change won the Democratic caucuses.

CNN: Democrats voted for change, GOP for faith and values

The fact that he is 71 also makes it difficult for him to cast himself as an agent of change.

ECONOMIST: The race is on in earnest, but his party's chances look grim

Voters will cast their ballots on whether to change the voting system on 5 May, in the first UK-wide referendum since 1975.

BBC: AV referendum: Union stance 'depressing', says Johnson

The court's verdict involved Yidis Medina, a former congresswoman who cast the deciding vote when a congressional committee approved the constitutional change that allowed Mr Uribe to run in 2006.

ECONOMIST: Colombia

About 800 directors last year received "no" votes that topped 30% of the votes cast, a high-enough percentage that small shareholders could change the outcome, according to Patrick McGurn, special counsel at RiskMetrics Group.

WSJ: Getting Going: Why Proxy Votes May Matter More This Year

His performance is unlikely to change all that much, at least until he joins the rest of the cast in New Hampshire, where Act Three begins in February and the characters start getting killed off.

ECONOMIST: The campaign