Sweet Charity / Chicago Question

[Derek]

Posted: 5/8/05 at 3:53pm

Charlotte is the Charity standby right? Yet, she us also is starring in Chicago. If Christina is out, will she leave Chicago for that performance and send in her understudy and go over to the Hirschfeld?? Thanks

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 5/8/05 at 3:59pm

Yes. There are a couple of Roxie understudies/standbys so one of them would take D'Amboise's place for that performance while she played Charity.

[CJR]

Posted: 5/8/05 at 3:59pm

There were a few threads on this awhile back.... if I wasn't lazy and in a hurry, I'd look for them.

Yes, Charlotte would leave Chicago and go down to Charity to go on. Either Belle or one of the 2 understudies (Michelle DeJean or Michelle Potterf) would go on as Roxie in her place.

[sabrelady]

Posted: 5/8/05 at 7:01pm

It sounds like the Stritch explanation of how she understudied Merman & appeared in Pal Joey simultaneously.("and you wonder why I drank!)

Posted: 5/8/05 at 10:46pm

I would love to see Belle doing Roxie once more.

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 5/9/05 at 1:48am

But "The Merm" NEVER missed a performance, sabrelady--that was not her "style". Her standbys/understudies NEVER went on. Stritch NEVER played "Mrs. Sally Adams" until the National Touring Company of CALL ME MADAM.

[wildcat]

Posted: 5/9/05 at 10:20am

Almost never. Betty Garrett went on in SOMETHING FOR THE BOYS and I think Jane Romano went on once during GYPSY. That is, if the audience didn't all go home.