ColorTheHours048 said: "Jiminwas only the first cover during previews, I believe, but was bumped to second once Diego had time to properly learn the role. It’s also easier to now have Pierre learn one new understudy track than have Brandon learn a new principalandunderstudy track."
Brandon doesn't have to learn a new principal track. He's been doing Artie for a long time (I saw him in November when Diego was on as Joe when Tom was out.)
(Not that I think he should be the Joe understudy. Not sure if this is the kind of thing I'm not supposed to say, but I think he's too short--trying to picture him doing the lift where Norma straddles Joe and they start making out, and can't. But I can't really picture Marais, whose "weird hunchback in ill-fitting clothes" version of Max I was not a fan of, doing that either.)
Updated On: 4/30/25 at 01:04 PM