[New York, March 3. Image via Getty]

For the first time, a visually-impaired child will portray Helen Keller in a Broadway production of The Miracle Worker. (Well, if Abigail Breslin is sick.)

An advocacy group is protesting the casting of Abigail Breslin as Helen Keller in a Broadway's upcoming revival of The Miracle Worker, arguing that a deaf or blind actress should have gotten the chance to play the part.