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The Awkward Moment when the Understudy is better
frazer
Understudy Joined: 5/6/11
#25The Awkward Moment when the Understudy is better
Posted: 8/2/11 at 2:35pm
mallardo - I think you misunderstand me. I meant all the entire principal cast in London are bettered by their understudies. Save, maybe, Nigel Harman as Lord Farquaad.
Updated On: 8/2/11 at 02:35 PM
rougeduck
Broadway Star Joined: 6/5/07
#26The Awkward Moment when the Understudy is better
Posted: 8/2/11 at 2:43pmAnnalene Beechey > Helen Dallimore in the original london cast of wicked...it's a shame she wasn't cast in the first place or replaced Dallimore later on. She definitely has one of loveliest voices on the west end.
#27The Awkward Moment when the Understudy is better
Posted: 8/2/11 at 3:03pm
mallardo - I think you misunderstand me. I meant all the entire principal cast in London are bettered by their understudies. Save, maybe, Nigel Harman as Lord Farquaad.
Oh. Sorry!
Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!
#28The Awkward Moment when the Understudy is better
Posted: 8/2/11 at 3:35pm
Wait, you can use gifs on here?
Please don't let this turn into Tumblr
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#29The Awkward Moment when the Understudy is better
Posted: 8/2/11 at 6:46pm
That awkward moment when you dont pay any attention to this board because you are obsessing over blaxx's icon :3 I love the muppets and Janice is hilarious
Thank you, love. After all these years I'm one of the few who's never changed it.
And, wouldn't it be more awkward if the understudy sucked? I don't see how the understudy being better would be awkward. It's not like the original performer is watching onstage.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
#30The Awkward Moment when the Understudy is better
Posted: 8/2/11 at 8:45pm
Arguably Emma Hunton, since she covered on Bway.
Jennifer DiNoia was probably much better than some of the Elphabas she covered.
#31The Awkward Moment when the Understudy is better
Posted: 8/2/11 at 8:55pm
Emma Hunton didn't cover. She replaced Lauren Pritchard in SPRING AWAKENING, and she went on once for Meghann Fehy in NEXT TO NORMAL while she was rehearsing the tour in NYC.
And she definitely wasn't better in either role.
"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
#32The Awkward Moment when the Understudy is better
Posted: 8/2/11 at 9:01pmEmma was technically listed as a Natalie u/s on Broadway for some time. I vote Jason Watson as Dan on the Next To Normal. Not only did I prefer his Dan to Asa's, but also to all of the other wonderful Dans I've seen besides Jason Danieley.
#33The Awkward Moment when the Understudy is better
Posted: 8/2/11 at 9:02pmReally? When was that? I saw the show around the time she went on and she's not in my playbill.
"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
mrweasel2
Swing Joined: 5/21/11
#34The Awkward Moment when the Understudy is better
Posted: 8/2/11 at 9:08pmI personally liked Robert Creighton more than Joel Grey in Anything Goes. Joel just seems a little old for the role and Robert fit the role so well.
#35The Awkward Moment when the Understudy is better
Posted: 8/2/11 at 9:08pmAll in the fall, you were right, around the time she was rehearsing for the tour :) I can't look through my playbills now, but I'm pretty sure she joined temporarily at different points throughout the fall, correct me if I'm wrong. She was definitely listed in the playbill at some point, but I have joining the cast slips for her, so she might not have been throughout all of her time spent there!
#36The Awkward Moment when the Understudy is better
Posted: 8/2/11 at 9:09pmTed Neeley was better than Jeff Fenholt...
"There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from."
~ Charles M. Schulz
LegallyBroadway2
Broadway Star Joined: 8/19/10
#37The Awkward Moment when the Understudy is better
Posted: 8/2/11 at 9:09pm
@Barcelona
Updated On: 8/2/11 at 09:09 PM
#38The Awkward Moment when the Understudy is better
Posted: 8/2/11 at 9:24pmMy playbill still lists Mackenzie Mauzy as the understudy, although she could have left the show by that point and the playbills hadn't been changed yet.
"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
#39The Awkward Moment when the Understudy is better
Posted: 8/2/11 at 10:02pmI don't think Mackenzie ever left the playbill. All the times when I saw the show, she was still listed, even when Emma was too. Kind of like when Adam Kantor would join, him, Brian Crum, and Adam Chanler-Berat were all in the playbill. Emma joined when Mackenzie left to film a movie, if my memory serves me correctly. I'm a big fan, but I think maybe a N2N expert, like adamgreer would be a good person to really clarify with :)
sbflyfan
Broadway Star Joined: 4/12/07
#40The Awkward Moment when the Understudy is better
Posted: 8/2/11 at 10:06pm
THE Curtis Holbrook in "Xanadu."
Deal done, done deal. 'Nuff said.
"I'm seeing the LuPone in Key West later this week. I'm hoping for great vocals and some sort of insane breakdown..." - BenjaminNicholas2
#41The Awkward Moment when the Understudy is better
Posted: 8/2/11 at 10:22pm
AC- Emma was most definitely a Natalie vacation understudy on Broadway, and even went on once. Her being better than Meghann is arguable, as there interpretations are different. But that one is an opinion. Even a strong lover of the show who as seen it countless times like adamgreer thinks Emma is the best Natalie (if I recall correctly).
And yea, I'm pretty sure they never took Mauzy out of the Playbill while Emma was covering.
Updated On: 8/2/11 at 10:22 PM
#42The Awkward Moment when the Understudy is better
Posted: 8/2/11 at 10:33pmI actually waited to see Xanadu during Cheyenne's vacation just to see Curtis.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
AlfieByrne
Stand-by Joined: 8/12/09
#43The Awkward Moment when the Understudy is better
Posted: 8/2/11 at 10:42pmIt seems like only shows like SA, N2N, Wicked, etc. seems to get those crazy obsessed fanbase who sees the show enough times to see every understudy/standbys, which isn't surprising.
#44The Awkward Moment when the Understudy is better
Posted: 8/6/11 at 12:01am
Jessica Phillips over Ripley's Diana in N2N, as well as Jason Watson over any Dan (except BDJ). Only saw N2N twice, so definitely not a crazy fan type. Didn't even Stage Door.
But how is it an "awkward moment" as opposed to a pleasant surprise?
#45The Awkward Moment when the Understudy is better
Posted: 8/9/11 at 3:27amNatalie Charle Ellis was much better than Mamie in 9to5. I liked her timing better.
#46The Awkward Moment when the Understudy is better
Posted: 8/9/11 at 4:26am
I'm just now reading the whole Emma/n2n/playbill debate, and in my playbill from September 18th, Emma Hunton is listed with Mackenzie Mauzy. Adam Kantor is also listed as a Henry u/s. I remember this weekend because the board had the two additional understudies listed and it was more full than usual.
That said, I don't think anyone can trump Meghann in the role. I was not a fan of Emma's inconsistent performance and actually preferred Mackenzie Mauzy's rather unrehearsed portrayal of Natalie (I think I saw her second show) to Emma. She was MUCH stronger toward the end of her run, but I will never be able to shake the first few times I saw her from my mind - it did not sit well with me and I didn't like it at all.
Larkin Bogan is a better and much more likable Woof than Matt DeAngelis in Hair.
She's not an understudy, but Marni Raab performs twice a week in Phantom and vocally, she's better than anyone else I've ever heard in the role, ever.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#47The Awkward Moment when the Understudy is better
Posted: 8/9/11 at 5:20amYeah, but is it awkward?
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#48The Awkward Moment when the Understudy is better
Posted: 8/9/11 at 5:20amThe CAST of Spring Awakening thought that Eryn Murman was a better Wendla than Alexandra Socha (sp?). I didn't agree, but they thought she was the best thing since sliced bread.
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itsahopi
Stand-by Joined: 11/19/06
#49The Awkward Moment when the Understudy is better
Posted: 8/9/11 at 9:55amI felt Jessica Grove was a much better Anne and Sara Ford a stronger Petra in ALNM.
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