Legally Blonde understudies — Page 6

FYI - Cara went on as Serena today! She was amazing as always! Laura sounded a bit under the weather at the beginning of the show but once Positive came around she was amazing, as usual. Becky was beautiful and Orfeh was spot on.

Was at matinee today as well. First time seeing.

I thought LBB was simply great. I thought she sounded better than the CD.

There were TWO understudies on though. Cara was one...but I can't remember the other.

Had a great time w/my 50 8th graders from Boston!

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I know he's been out before, but I have *never* seen either of Richard H. Blake's understudies go on, so I am excited about this (I was planning to go to Blonde Saturday evening anyway, to see Gaelen!Paulette)-

Matthew Risch will be going on as Warner in LEGALLY BLONDE on Saturday, December 15 and Sunday, December 16.




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I'm so jealous I wish I could see a Warner understudy

1,000$?

But why $1,000? Is her whole family going? LBB was out Sun. night too so maybe she'll be in all next week?

yea there are 6 of us going... my mom is taking me and my sister's and cousin! three of us are diehard lbb fans and none of us have ever seen her live... i guess all i can do is hope! plus flight, hotel, etc... its an expensive outing to go to nyc! lol

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Updated On: 12/11/07 at 09:43 PM

I'm totally planning on seeing the show this Sunday's matinee. I love understudyage. Does anyone know who'll cover Andy? I've seen it twice when Andy was on for Callahan and Emmett, but Matthew Risch covered Kyle/Dewey both times. If Matthew's going on for Warner, who'll take over for Andy?

Also, how's rush been lately. Would showing up at 10 be good?

Madprops -- Jason Gillman, Warner's other understudy, was on for Andy tonight but it was weird...there was an insert because there were so many understudies and maybe because of the mixups...Jason was listed as playing pforzheimer/dewey/kyle and Rod H. was playing Grandmaster Chad, and that's how it went. (pforzheimer is the harvard admissions dude Jason normally plays). I was really looking forward to seeing Jason rap I lost my insert along the way, so I didn't get a chance to check if there were any other weird combinations of tracks.

So Orfeh, Andy and Traci Jai were out tonight, so in total there were 6 understudies/swings on. The understudy board was almost completely full.

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^ Rod Harrelson would've also been Carlos, right?

And so how was Amber? Seeing her tomorrow night (hopefully), really looking forward to it!

I just want to know like how she played the character, whether she copied Orfeh or not and all that stuff.

Right, he wasn't, because Matthew's not on for Warner until this weekend...I am totally mixing up my understudies here.

The inserts weren't wrong. Nick Kenkel was out and he usually covers Grandmaster Chad, so Rod had to go on. Since Jason Gillman was on for Andy's other parts, they had to specify that he would also be playing the Harvard admissions guy as it's not included in his track.

Cara Cooper was Serena. She was excellent.
Jason Gillman will be on for Andy Karl all week, as Matthew Risch is Warner this weekend. I guess since Warner is a bigger role, they gave Jason the entire week as the UPS guy. And if you've only seen Matthew, Jason will not disappoint. He is HILARIOUS and makes the role his own. My personal favorite moment is when he says "I've got a package" and holds the box in front of his...well, let's say its a "dick in a box" moment. :-P

Amber was great. It was only her second show and she didn't screw up. She is also battling a cold, so I was super impressed that she WORKED IT SO HARD CORE. Seriously, it's like ghetto sasstress Paulette and I enjoyed it. No one is going to measure up to Orfeh, but Amber definitely held her own.

She has this huge afro hair, which is absolutely FABULOUS and hilarious and she does a lot of her line readings with attitude. It was completely different from Orfeh, but not in a bad way. Her Paulette seemed more innocent and she towered over people, so it was cute. She is an excellent dancer and definitely has a set of pipes on her. Some of her line readings were hilarious.

I recommend everyone see her as this will probably be the only chance - Orfeh's attendance tends to be spotless :-P

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