"The understudy for Poncia was on tonight, but she was actually quite good."
And apparently Michael John thought saw too. Read this in today's Daily News gossip column:
The cast of the new musical "Bernarda Alba" is said to have the jitters after getting a disquieting E-mail from the show's composer, Michael John LaChiusa.
The Broadway favorite caught a recent performance with an understudy in the role normally played by actress Candy Buckley.
"The next day, he sent an E-mail to the entire company telling them how good, in so many words, the show was without Buckley in it," says a backstage blabbermouth. "The company is a little on edge, and Buckley, understandably, is p—ed."
Well you would be, wouldn't you? "Bernarda Alba," starring Phylicia Rashad and Daphne Rubin-Vega, is playing at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre at Lincoln Center.
A rep for the show did not return calls.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/407065p-344651c.html Interesting.