Best understudy you've ever seen?- Page 7

[greensgreens]

Posted: 5/9/19 at 5:51pm

Alice Ripley going on for Marcia Mitzman (Mrs. Walker) in The Who's Tommy a week or two after the Tonys that year. That performance stuck with me forever and I knew immediately that she was someone to watch. I didn't see Marcia so I can't compare, but Alice was simply thrilling - her Smash The Mirror was out of this world. I really wish she'd record that track or maybe a few tunes from that score. It fit her like a glove.

[HelloDanny]

Posted: 5/10/19 at 2:55pm

Andrew Call as Phil Conners for Andy Karl in Groundhog Day. 

[PanaroFan111]

Posted: 5/12/19 at 8:21am

Laird Mackintosh and Jeremy Stolle as the Phantom

Andrew Varela and Aaron Walpole as Jean Valjean

Sierra Boggess as Christine  yes i know she was the star of the show but i went to a Thurs matinée of Phantom and she was not scheduled to perform so she was on the board and we got white slips white slips :) great surprise

[BenjaminNicholas2]

Posted: 5/12/19 at 2:51pm

Anyone who went on for Eva in the last Broadway revival of Evita.  Literally...  Anyone.

 

[Sytwix]

Posted: 5/12/19 at 9:49pm

Stephanie Torns as Jenna in Waitress.  I've seen the show with Jesse Mueller, Nicolette Robinson and Shoshana Bean as Jenna and I like Stephanie Torn's version the best.  I think she was the most vulnerable and really inhabited the character.  

[Lot666]

Posted: 5/13/19 at 8:33am

PanaroFan111 said: "Laird Mackintosh and Jeremy Stolle as the Phantom"

Absolutely.

 

[KathyNYC2]

Posted: 5/13/19 at 9:41am

Sytwix said: "Stephanie Torns as Jenna in Waitress. I've seen the show with Jesse Mueller, Nicolette Robinson and Shoshana Bean as Jenna and I like Stephanie Torn's version the best. I think she was the most vulnerable and really inhabited the character. "

I would like to basically nominate the entire cast of Waitress  You could pretty much see the entire show with understudies and they’d knock it out of the park  

 

[Lin-Manuel Miranda]

Posted: 5/13/19 at 11:03am

I saw Christopher Jackson go on as Simba in The Lion King when I was in college, about three years before I ever met him. He was pretty good.

[Buck]

Posted: 5/13/19 at 12:08pm

This goes all the way back to 1989 . . . Ruthie Henshall in for Claire Moore as Ellen in “Miss Saigon”. She was electrifying and the audience went wild after her solo song. No surprise when she went on to greater things.

[Clare6]

Posted: 5/13/19 at 3:13pm

Updated On: 5/14/19 at 03:13 PM

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 5/13/19 at 3:24pm

Kara Lindsay doesn't appear to have ever been an understudy in Beautiful... https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/kara-lindsay-491585