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Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)
#25re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)
Posted: 4/9/06 at 8:04pmCan I ask, why do we have to keep it between 2003-2006? Just curious...
#26re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)
Posted: 4/9/06 at 8:05pmBecause the original poster was born in 2002.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#27re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)
Posted: 4/9/06 at 8:07pmLol, I heart you.
#28re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)
Posted: 4/9/06 at 8:07pm
Lisa Brescia - The Woman in White - by far
Michael Shawn Lewis - The Woman in White
#29re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)
Posted: 4/9/06 at 8:09pm
Benjamin Eakeley - (Sweeney Todd) Anthony
Karmine Alers - (RENT) Mimi
"A little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing." - Thomas Jefferson
Updated On: 4/9/06 at 08:09 PM
Doogie
Broadway Star Joined: 8/4/03
#30re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)
Posted: 4/9/06 at 8:19pm
how can you say Tina Maddigan is the best understudy???
she hasn't even gone on yet!
cabarethed
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
#31re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)
Posted: 4/9/06 at 8:25pmFirst person that always pops in my head is Heather Laws as Sally Bowles. Absolutely stunning. Kevin Cahoon as Frank-n-Furter was excellent as well.
#32re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)
Posted: 4/9/06 at 8:56pmBesides that, Maddigan is a standby, not an understudy
Fabrizio2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/20/06
#33re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)
Posted: 4/9/06 at 9:06pmI was just trying to keep it recent. Is there any preffered year I should change it to?
#34re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)
Posted: 4/9/06 at 9:10pm
<----------------------- Michelle DeJean (Roxie in CHICAGO)
So damn good - she is now headlining the national tour as Roxie.
Updated On: 4/9/06 at 09:10 PM
#35re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)
Posted: 4/9/06 at 10:01pm
*Darin Murphy in Lennon
*Kevin Cahoon as Frank N. Furter (Rocky Horror)
*Jonathan Sharp as Rocky (Rocky Horror)
*Jason Wooten as Riff Raff (Rocky Horror - before he took over the role, and after Sebastian Bach took over the role)
*Kristen Lee Kelly as Janet (Rocky Horror - obviously, before she took over the role)
*Linda Muggleston as Ruth (Wonderful Town)
*Annaleigh Ashford as G(a)linda (Wicked - tour)
"It's not for sissies, contrary to popular belief." - Tommy Tune, on musical theatre.
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#36re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)
Posted: 4/9/06 at 10:15pm
Taye Diggs (for one month in wicked.)
Shosana Bean: Wicked
Karmine Alers: Rent
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall
Updated On: 4/9/06 at 10:15 PM
#37re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)
Posted: 4/9/06 at 10:26pm
I know you're all gonna kill me after I say this-
When Stephanie Block was in the national tour of Wicked I thought Jenna Leigh Green was a good understudy.
<--Sometimes it's easier to get out of a jam than into one
misto625
Broadway Star Joined: 11/10/05
#38re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)
Posted: 4/9/06 at 10:27pmA stand-by is higher paid than an understudy and usually a little more well-known or with better credits, but for the purposes of this board, stand-bys can be counted.
Dean: Can I tell you something?
Lorraine: That depends on what it is.
Dean: I think you're really really pretty.
Lorraine: (after a pause) Ok, you can tell me that.
#39re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)
Posted: 4/9/06 at 10:40pmJenna Leigh Green for Elphaba on the Wicked Tour
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#40re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)
Posted: 4/9/06 at 10:45pmBlanking on her last name but Erin as an understudy for Amanda Peet in Barefoot in the Oark. Saw her first night ever on Broadway and she was spectacular!
NJgirl
Broadway Star Joined: 10/13/04
#41re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)
Posted: 4/9/06 at 11:05pmMatthew Scott went on for his second time as Bob Gaudio in Jersey Boys today. Every bit as good as Daniel Reichard in the role. Having seen Daniel a month ago...his understudy amazed me and is one of the best understudies I've seen as of late. Kudos to Matthew!
Luckydave14
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/04
#42re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)
Posted: 4/9/06 at 11:22pm
Trisha Jeffrey as Lorraine in ASU
Lisa Brescia as Marian in Woman in White
touchmeinthemorning
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
#43re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)
Posted: 4/10/06 at 12:39am
Elizabeth Loyacano in Dracula
Lisa Brescia in Woman in White
Heather Laws in Cabaret
"Fundamentalism means never having to say 'I'm wrong.'"
-- unknown
BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#44re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)
Posted: 4/10/06 at 12:54am
Joe Cassidy in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ----- he was sway better then Norbs
#45re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)
Posted: 4/10/06 at 1:15amJenna Leigh Green for Elphaba in Wicked. She is the best elphaba and she was only the understudy and blows so many elphies away. Loved her performance.
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
Lori
Featured Actor Joined: 9/8/03
#46re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)
Posted: 4/10/06 at 8:05am
Lisa Brescia in WIW - she was stunning
I was there the night Daniel Torres went on as Walter and he was fabulous as well.
"Take Care! When I am thwarted I am very terrible!"
#47re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)
Posted: 4/10/06 at 9:22amA standby and an understudy are not the same thing. A standby is never in the show, and an understudy (for musicals, which this thread is mostly about) is in the ensemble.
#48re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)
Posted: 4/10/06 at 9:58am
Jennifer Hughes (u/s Clara) "The Light in the Piazza"
Kenita Miller (u/s Celie, Nettie) "The Color Purple"
Kate Wetherhead (u/s Logainne, Marcy, Olive) "Spelling Bee"
Brandi Chavonne Massey (u/s Elphaba) "Wicked"
Linda Syng (u/s Judy) "Movin' Out" (Tour)
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Updated On: 4/10/06 at 09:58 AM
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#49re: Best Understudy (please keep it between 2003-2006)
Posted: 4/10/06 at 10:00am
I paid attention, darling. I just don't think you're right.
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