Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)

#1

Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)

Posted: 4/9/06 at 5:01pm

Who do you think?


Charlotte d'Amboise in Sweet Charity
Patti Cohenour in The Light in the Piazza


those are mine

#2

re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)

Posted: 4/9/06 at 5:14pm

Robb Sapp (when he was an understudy for Boq)
Colin Hanlon (saw him as Mark and wow!)
Joe Cassidy (what else can i say . . . awesome!)

#3

re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)

Posted: 4/9/06 at 5:19pm

Joe Cassidy was amazing...understudied NBL's role in DRS right? I have a photograph with him.

#4

re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)

Posted: 4/9/06 at 5:19pm

Laura Marie Duncan for both Fully Monty and Dirty Rotten.


I was never sure about this but I thought Charlotte d'Amboise was a replacement never an understudy.

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#5

re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)

Posted: 4/9/06 at 5:20pm

I agree with those. Also:

Joe Cassidy in DRS
Laura Marie Duncan in DRS
Saycon Sengbloh in Wicked
Karmine Alers in Rent
The currest Valjean understudy in the Les Miz Tour(will look up shortly)

ETA: Yes, Joe was Norbert's understudy, but also Greg's.

Charlotte was Christina's standby in Sweet Charity.

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Updated On: 4/9/06 at 05:20 PM

#6

re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)

Posted: 4/9/06 at 5:21pm

Maria Elberline as Elphaba :)

#7

re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)

Posted: 4/9/06 at 5:42pm

Daniel Torres in The Woman in White. Yes, he only went on once, but he was amazing.

#8

re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)

Posted: 4/9/06 at 5:43pm

Linda Muggelston

#9

re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)

Posted: 4/9/06 at 5:48pm

Lisa Brescia as Marian in The Woman in White...just fabulous.

#10

re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)

Posted: 4/9/06 at 5:50pm

The currest Valjean understudy in the Les Miz Tour(will look up shortly)

Jason Craack, He's phenomenal...Plus he's got the coolest name ever.

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re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)

Posted: 4/9/06 at 5:56pm

Lisa Brescia as Marion byfar the greatest in the past couple seasons.

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#12

re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)

Posted: 4/9/06 at 6:05pm

David Burnham in Piazza.
Sebastian Arcelus in Rent.
Romain Fruge if he ever gets to go on in Threepenny.

#13

re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)

Posted: 4/9/06 at 6:07pm

I saw Cara Cooper go on as "Holly" in The Wedding Singer the other night, and she was absolutely phenomenal.

#14

re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)

Posted: 4/9/06 at 6:17pm

Jason Gillman in DRS
Michelle Dowdy in Hairspray
Todd Buonopane in Spelling Bee

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#15

re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)

Posted: 4/9/06 at 6:23pm

victoria matlock as wlphaba
emily rozek as millie, and glinda- she's the best understudy i have ever seen

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#16

re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)

Posted: 4/9/06 at 6:30pm

Haven Burton in Rent. *g* She was the best Maureen that I've ever seen or heard.

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re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)

Posted: 4/9/06 at 6:32pm

Ahh, tankies Cat. I know you agree he was wonderful

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"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli

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re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)

Posted: 4/9/06 at 6:39pm

Jenna Leigh Green for Elphaba on the Wicked tour.

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#19

re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)

Posted: 4/9/06 at 6:47pm

Hmmm I really enjoyed Norman Large as Fosco in WIW.

I had some great ones of the past year,

Ginnifer King as Shelby in Steel Magnolias
Megan Hilty as Glinda (b4 she took over)
John Traecy Egan as Roger DeBris

I'm sure there are others.

And now for da bomb!

Maureen Moore as Rose in Gypsy.

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#20

re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)

Posted: 4/9/06 at 6:47pm

I'm sure there are others I've seen in other parts that have done them justice, but as soon as I read this subject, the name Linda Muggleston (sic) in Wonderful Town came to mind. She was so great, I couldn't imagine anyone else in the part.

When I saw the show again with Brook Shields, although she was pretty good, Linda was outstanding. I can't even imagine Donna Murphy was better than Muggleston.

#21

re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)

Posted: 4/9/06 at 7:11pm

Patti Cohenour- Piazza (even though I saw her as an alternate)

#22

re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)

Posted: 4/9/06 at 7:45pm

Marty Lawson as Eddie in Movin' Out - absolutely phenominal
Jarad Boortz in Wicked

#23

re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)

Posted: 4/9/06 at 7:54pm

I hear that Emily Rozec as Millie is fabulous like jonartdesigns says. I hear that she is also a great ensemble member in the Wicked Touring Cast.

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re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)

Posted: 4/9/06 at 7:56pm

Add me to the Linda Muggleston love. She was just lovely in Wonderful Town, she received a very worthy standing ovation. It was probably especially victorious for her since when they announced Donna Murphy was out that night, many audience members groaned and some tried to leave (they were forced to stay). But by "One Hundred Easy Ways", she had the audience eating out of her hand. I was thrilled for her.

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#25

re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)

Posted: 4/9/06 at 8:00pm

Tina Maddigan - THE WEDDING SINGER

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