Four words -- "Taming of the Shrew". I've seen two stage productions of it, about 25 years apart, and the first one was faithful to the original script (and boy did my school chums have a variety of different reactions), and the second one appeared to be, but they added a wordless final scene where the couple was in bed and the Tamer was giving the Shrew her cut of the money. It brought the house down.
Staging and casting can enrich the experience, so, we'll just have to agree to disagree.
That said, this particular casting (of Troy) is just a matter of policy, handed down from practitioners of "The Agenda-Driven Life", and I won't be seeing it for that reason alone.
Having some idiot honcho decide that PC not only has to be adhered to, but done to everything they produce, whether it makes ANY sense or not ( and after all, WHY make Achilles and Javert black, with homoerotic overtones re the later ) just does NOT pass the smell test! It doesn't do anything at all to add to the plot, understanding the character/s, nor helping the audience in any way!
I tend to be a "purest" when it comes to certain things ( most especially G&S operettas, Shakeapeare, Dickens, and some other things ); yet, I can see the validity of some changes, sometimes, such as Orson Welles' stagings of some Shakespeare plays, which really DO work!