Her Downstage Center episode explains it- and is worth checking out.
If i recall correctly, Charlotte D'Ambroise was starring as Roxie in Chicago, while standing by for Christina Applegate in Sweet Charity, I read a story somewhere of her having to leave mid-performance from Chicago, to take over in Sweet Charity.
One of the three current Roxie understudies, Dylis Croman, was also involved in that revival of Sweet Charity. I'm thinking that Dylis was in the cast as an understudy to Christina Applegate. I wonder why Christina never tried the role of "Roxie"?
Pretty sure John Cullum was in Osage County as Beverly and then went to Scottsboro Boys. ?
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
That is false. August: Osage County closed in 2009 and Scottsboro didn't start until 2010 at the Vineyard.
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/15/07
It wasn't simultaneously, but Rhondi Reed did a Matinee of Wicked and the closing night performance of August: Osage County. (Or the opposite of that, I'm fuzzy on the details).
Cullum appeared in AUGUST on Broadway and HEROES Off-Broadway simultaneously.
And didn't Estelle Parsons have a role in something while she was in "Nice Work if You Can Get It"? I seem to recall that.
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