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ACL2006 said: "NotThatSmart said: "ACL2006 said: "Mrs. Doubtfire's assistant choreographer,Michaeljon Slinger, jumped into the show tonight. Hopefully they don't shut down again."

Yep. I am here. There are 3 new swings tonight."

Curious who the additional swings are? Would you mind sharing (after the show). Have they hired a standby yet for McClure?"

12/22 night: 

Understudies on for Natalie Hilliard, Wanda, Andre, and the principal/loopy Lenny track. All were fabulous. 

3 new swings in the slip: the aforestated MJ Slinger, Tracee Beazer, and Clifton Samuels.

According to the playbill, Rob only has one U/S: KJ Hippensteel. But I don’t see Rob going anywhere unless he has to.

Whew! I just finished my 8th show in the last 5 days and I feel incredibly lucky. Flying home tomorrow.

I had this trip planned for a while, and I almost canceled it all last Friday night before I was supposed to catch my flight. It seemed like a fools errand to expect to see all the shows I had planned.  At the last minute I decided to go any way, and if Broadway got shut down, I would just hang out at the Drama Book Shop all day. Haha. Any way. I ended up with only one cancellation (Skeleton Crew) and that was announced two days in advance giving me plenty of time to book another show (Kimberly Akimbo-win!). All my other shows went on as scheduled, even though I was nervous they would cancel all the way up until 15 minutes into each show. Made for a less-than-relaxing trip...but my fears never materialized.

I realize I am extremely lucky.  Additionally, every single main player was in and most shows performed with their entire casts - no understudies.  It was uncanny.  I still don't really believe it.

Additionally, everything I saw was either pretty good or great,  That never happens on New York trips. I usually just see everything I haven't seen yet...and there are always sour apples in the bunch.  But this trip everything was at least pretty good. 

I saw Trouble in Mind, Flying Over Sunset, Assassins, Little Shop of Horrors, Company, The Music Man, The Lehman Trilogy, and Kimberly Akimbo.

I just kept refreshing this thread every half an hour for the last 6 days.  So thank you everyone for the updates.  It was reassuring to know I had all the inside info here.  Although I'm feeling quite relaxed now that I don't feel a compulsion to check this thread every 30 minutes.  

Thanks y'all!

Saw Moulin Rouge tonight and in terms of the principals:

Natalie out, Ashley Loren in for Satine

Robyn out, Karli Dinardo in for Nini

There were also understudies in for La Chocolat and Pierre. Not sure exactly how many swings were on tonight.

I was supposed to see MR on Saturday but it was cancelled. MR was the main show I wanted to see coming to NYC, so I was super bummed when it was cancelled, but noticed was able to scoop decent seats in the balcony for $120ish a few hours before the show tonight! It’s our last night for this trip and it was the perfect way to spend it. Was worried I’d come out of this trip 0/3 shows but ended up only missing the Rockettes (and I’m sure we can see them another Christmas).

Hoping Broadway can come out of this winter as intact as possible and can’t wait to come back again soon! 
 

edited to add: was SO happy seeing Aaron in tonight. Saw he was out yesterday, but after I booked the tickets I saw he was back and it made me look forward to it even more—he was absolutely amazing, as was the whole cast

 

Updated On: 12/23/21 at 11:59 PM

unclevictor said: "Doubtfire had to put on the assistant choreographer? Seriously?
What the heck is going on? This is beyond ridiculous. Cancel the fricking show."

The Writer of "Thoughts of a Colored Man" went on last night after a positive covid test.

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2021/12/22/thoughts-of-a-colored-man-keenan-scott-ii-esau-pritchett-covid-19-broadway/

 

They literally hired the assistant choreographer to swing in. They will likely hire more swings and covers. It takes a little more time for that though, and in this moment, they hired the one person who knew the choreography for the show to happen. Everyone wins.

It's not all that uncommon for the asst choreographer to swing in the show at the beginning of its run.

always nice when a poster acknowledges that a previous post was the result of not knowing what they were talking about. 

Pretty Woman Cancelled In DC at the National Theater - was supposed to run last week of December to Jan 2.  Disappointed.  Scooped up tickets for Baltimore in April.  Hope it still runs!

Claybourne Elder just posted on Instagram that he tested positive for COVID and will be out of Company for a while with Jacob Dickey swinging into his track. 
 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CX1e1dFLKg7/?utm_medium=copy_link

Times Square New Year's Eve celebration will be scaled back, city says

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/23/us/nyc-times-square-nye-2022/index.html

HeyMrMusic said: "Just saw on social media that a sub pianist conductedCaroline, or Change last night. Must have been an emergency situation. It was his Broadway conducting debut."

Wow!

quizking101 said: "Claybourne Elder just posted on Instagram that he tested positive for COVID and will be out of Company for a while with Jacob Dickey swinging into his track.


https://www.instagram.com/p/CX1e1dFLKg7/?utm_medium=copy_link"

Dickey's been on a lot this month!