#1
Posted: 5/29/11 at 12:25am
I was so bummed that Kathy Voytko never got the chance to go on as Diana in NEXT TO NORMAL. Anyone else have a similar one?
A actor that never performed their u/s role..
#2
Posted: 5/29/11 at 12:28am
Merwin Foard never went on for Michael Cerveris during the Sweeney Todd revival.
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#3
Posted: 5/29/11 at 12:45am
a bunch of people never went on for carol channing during the original hello dolly run
#4
Posted: 5/29/11 at 12:46am
Paul David Story never went on for Daniel Radcliffe in Equus.
#5
Posted: 5/29/11 at 12:51am
John Hill as Peter Allen for Hugh Jackman in TBFO.
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#6
Posted: 5/29/11 at 1:04am
Maggie Griffin never went on for Kathy Griffin.
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#7
Posted: 5/29/11 at 1:15am
Heidi Blickenstaff never went on for Ursula in The Little Mermaid as an understudy, although she did end up playing the part. Does that count?
#8
Posted: 5/29/11 at 1:33am
Madge Allsop never had to go on from Dame Edna Everage during her two solo shows.
Also, I don't think the understudies/stand by's for Kerry Ellis or Katie Rose Clarke had to go on.
Also, I don't think the understudies/stand by's for Kerry Ellis or Katie Rose Clarke had to go on.
#9
Posted: 5/29/11 at 2:15am
John Hill as Peter Allen for Hugh Jackman in TBFO.
Michael Halling, too.
Michael Halling, too.
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#10
Posted: 5/29/11 at 2:18am
I doubt Dave Hull will ever go on for Daniel Radcliffe.
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#11
Posted: 5/29/11 at 2:20am
Julia Knitel never went on for Brynn Williams as Ursuala in the recent Bye, Bye Birdie revival
#12
Posted: 5/29/11 at 2:31am
Kevin Spirtas never went on as Peter Allen, either.
JoAnne Worley owes her career to the fact that Carol never missed in Dolly!
Did Natalie Weiss ever go on as Elphaba on the tour?
JoAnne Worley owes her career to the fact that Carol never missed in Dolly!
Did Natalie Weiss ever go on as Elphaba on the tour?
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#13
Posted: 5/29/11 at 2:37am
^ I assume not, or we would've been raped with the fact.
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#14
Posted: 5/29/11 at 11:41am
I know that Marian Seldes never missed a one of the 1809 performances of Deathtrap on Broadway. Isn't that still a record? Don't know who her understudies might have been though.
#15
Posted: 5/29/11 at 11:48am
Jennifer Damiano was listed as the understudy for Wendla in Spring Awakening, but she was never allowed to perform due to her age and the sexual nature of the role.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
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#16
Posted: 5/29/11 at 12:12pm
I thought Jenn did end up going on a few times? Maybe not
#17
Posted: 5/29/11 at 12:14pm
She never performed Wendla. She performed other roles (Ilse, Martha, Thea).
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#18
Posted: 5/29/11 at 12:14pm
Jenn went on as some of the other female roles, but never Wendla.
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#19
Posted: 5/29/11 at 12:18pm
Nah, Jenn never got to go on as Wendla.
And Robi Hager or Zach Reiner-Harris never went on for Melchior.
And Robi Hager or Zach Reiner-Harris never went on for Melchior.
#20
Posted: 5/29/11 at 12:40pm
Jonathan B Wright never performed as Melchior, either. He was listed as the understudy for much of his run with the show. I would have LOVED to have seen his take on it.
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#21
Posted: 5/29/11 at 12:44pm
Did Phoebe Strole ever go on as Wendla? I remember Krysta said that she was the first person other than Lea to play the role on Broadway, but I'm not sure if Phoebe ever got to go on.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#22
Posted: 5/29/11 at 1:04pm
AC126748,
Phoebe Strole did go on as Wendla. Not very much, she did at least once but then Eryn Murman and Alexandra Socha started going on way more.
Phoebe Strole did go on as Wendla. Not very much, she did at least once but then Eryn Murman and Alexandra Socha started going on way more.
#23
Posted: 5/29/11 at 1:04pm
Yeah Phoebe went on a few times around June/July 2007 just before Alexandra Socha was hired. Not sure if she ever went on after that.
#24
Posted: 5/29/11 at 1:09pm
Phoebe also went on as Ilse a few times before Eryn was hired.
#25
Posted: 5/29/11 at 1:19pm
Did any of Yul Brynner's understudies in King & I ever go on?
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