Famous Standbys-Understudies, etc.- Page 4
Famous Standbys-Understudies, etc.
#75re: Famous Standbys-Understudies, etc.
Posted: 8/2/11 at 5:58pm
Jere Shea has left the business. He moved back to Boston, his hometown. I think his last professional credit was the out-of-town tryout of High Society. He was announced for Broadway, but dropped out and was replaced by Stephen Bogardus.
I think he taught a BU for a time. According to his LinkedIn page (which I found, quite easily, by Googling him), he's currently working for an NGO.
Stephen Sondheim wants you to originate a leading role for him, you ask where to sign. Unbelievable.
Even the most ardent Sondheim fan has to admit that statement is hyperbolic, at best.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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#76re: Famous Standbys-Understudies, etc.
Posted: 8/2/11 at 6:16pmAs I understood it, Patti wanted the same billing and money that Bernadette got, and was told no.
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#77re: Famous Standbys-Understudies, etc.
Posted: 8/2/11 at 6:18pmIt's all discussed in the Patti memoir thread.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#78re: Famous Standbys-Understudies, etc.
Posted: 8/5/11 at 8:24pm
Laura Benanti understudied Rebecca Luker in "The Sound of Music."
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Updated On: 8/5/11 at 08:24 PM
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#79re: Famous Standbys-Understudies, etc.
Posted: 4/9/12 at 4:59pmRuth Donnelly, famous for all of those Warner Brothers comedies of the 1930's, was standby for Patsy Kelly in "No, No Nanette".
#80re: Famous Standbys-Understudies, etc.
Posted: 4/9/12 at 5:10pmwill swenson understudied steve kazee in 110 in the shade back in '07
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Swing Joined: 2/2/12
#81re: Famous Standbys-Understudies, etc.
Posted: 4/9/12 at 5:22pmRebecca Lucker for Sarah Brightman in "Phantom"
#82re: Famous Standbys-Understudies, etc.
Posted: 4/11/12 at 2:06am
Joel Grey understudied Tommy Steele in Half a Sixpence.
Helen Gallagher understudied Gwen Verdon in Sweet Charity.
#83re: Famous Standbys-Understudies, etc.
Posted: 4/11/12 at 2:36am
Wasn't Dee Hoty the unlisted understudy for Barbara Cook and Vanessa Williams in "Sondheim on Sondheim".
I chuckle at the thought of the announcement "Tonight, the part of Barbara Cook will be played by Dee Hoty".
Xanadu! Can't cry on cue!
#84re: Famous Standbys-Understudies, etc.
Posted: 4/11/12 at 2:52amI saw Eden Espinosa as Nessarose back when she was understudy in 'Wicked'... does that count? lol.
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Broadway Star Joined: 5/12/03
#85re: Famous Standbys-Understudies, etc.
Posted: 4/11/12 at 4:19amPhylcia Rashad was the first Deena Jones understudy in Dreamgirls.
#86re: Famous Standbys-Understudies, etc.
Posted: 4/11/12 at 7:44amPhylicia was also the original understudy for Glinda in the OBC of "The Wiz."
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#87re: Famous Standbys-Understudies, etc.
Posted: 4/11/12 at 12:40pm
Okay > I love this one.
Louise Lasser understudied Barbra STreisand in I can get it for you wholesale.
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#88re: Famous Standbys-Understudies, etc.
Posted: 4/11/12 at 5:57pmMerle Louise understudied for Carole Shelley in Billy Elliot. Victoria Clark also understudied for Agatha in addition to Adelaide in Guys and Dolls.
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