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uncageg said: "I wonder whynthey decidedmom the Saturday evening performance? I am assumingmthey will take those Sunday matinee tickets off-sale."

Because Sunday the 31st is New Year's Eve and the Times Square area will be bat****. Better to close the night before. They've added a Friday matinee  on December 29th to make up for it.

 

The week-long hiatus has been on the show's schedule from the first. It's so Ms.LuPone and Ms. Ebersole can take vacation. That's all.

Tag said: "It means the stage manager asked them to step away from the show that day so an understudy/swing can practice their track.

That doesn't really happen, as it costs money.

 

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Actually, this is incorrect. On Broadway (and in any other union house), a swing is on a weekly salary, the same as other company members. The "swung out" company member receives their regular pay for watching the show and notin

Hi, I'm Donna Migliaccio and I played Emma Goldman in the 2009 revival.

Tracy Lynn Olivera was, indeed, one of my understudies, but she never went on in the role. I missed two performances the week before we opened and swing Lisa Carlin went on for me (and did a dynamite job).

Unfortunately, I don't remember who covered the other "historicals" in the show, but I can tell you that the roles were, indeed, understudied. I think almost every major role in the show had d