adamgreer: "For the 20 millionth time, WSS does not use understudy slips. There will never, ever be 9 slips of paper falling out of your playbill. They, like ITH, print one slip of paper announcing the complete cast for that evening. In order to see who the understudies are you have to either look at the call board in the lobby, or cross reference the list of that evening's company against the list in the playbill.
No slips of paper."
Thanks for that... very important-to-this-conversation... bit of information.... *cough*
Whether you think it's stupid or not, it's been my experience that people are disappointed when lots of understudies are in, even if they didn't know who they were in for. Many understudies are wonderful (sometimes better than the regular), but it is safe to assume that in most cases to SOME PERSON on the production team there is a reason why they are the understudy and not the regular, and I don't think it's ridiculous to be disappointed at having a bunch of understudies on given this.
However, that doesn't really matter in this situation. How about how actors are paid and contracted to do a job and it's simply unprofessional and deplorable to be out constantly?
As for this talk of injury, there are ways to greatly lessen your chance of getting injuries, be they related to dance or singing. It's called taking care of yourself. It's called going home instead of out to the clubs when you're done performing.
People have done it for years, and that's why people USED to not miss near as much.
Updated On: 8/19/09 at 06:26 PM
PJ, you have every right to stick your tongue out at me, and yell "told ya so." You really do. 
