Tony Nominees Calling Out — Page 2

funhamilton_rent said: "Hailey has taken off ONE performance in the past 7 months of OOTI’s run. I hardly think she’s unprofessional. And Alex has an insanely demanding role & probably needed to be in vocal rest for the Tonys. Everyone on these boards just hates OOTI for no reason smh... it won, get over it."

I’m not sure the number, but Hailey has definitely missed more performances than that.

Do you guys, like, ever check things before posting them as fact? It's usually a good idea. :P

Caissie Levy was out for the Saturday matinee, she did the evening show.

Updated On: 6/11/18 at 07:24 PM

Who is Alex Newell's understudy in OOTI? I'm just curious because not a lot of guys have the same vocal chops as Alex!

vanbrig said: "haterobics said: "Last year, DHP called out of the Saturday Dolly matinee, and we had a bunch of people missing from Comet that night, including Groban."

I saw it that night and Groban was in; Amber Gray was the only one out. However, Groban, Denee Benton, Lucas Steele, and Amber Gray were all out that matinee, if I'm not mistaken."

I must have done Comet as the matinee and Dolly as the evening show, which makes sense, as that was my first time seeing Bette, so I wouldn't put any show in the impossible position of following her...

Some tidbits:

- Alex Newell did 100+ shows from the start of the run to the beginning of Feb before ever missing a show.

- Hailey is 19 and is still learning how to pace for 8 shows a week. It's not something you learn just like that. Also she doesn't miss a crazy amount. But she has been out for more than one show in 7 months lmao. Loren would go on for her a good amount of times. Usually matinees.

- Alysha is the concerning one. Loren was her primary u/s and she would be on 1-2 times every week. Even more than that often times. Alysha was even out of tonights show.

- Even though Alex might only have one song, the entire cast sings background in practically every song. Mix that, eight shows a week, and tony prep all together is a lot.

I've not heard of Lenk missing even one show. I don't have that on good authority though, just from people saying that on the internet.

Taylor Louderman and Ashley Park have both never missed a show of Mean Girls yet.

I was wondering about Lenk as well as I haven't heard of her missing at all. I miss both Alex and Lea at OOTI and also LaChanze this season besides the Shalhoub outages. Gets soooo frustrating.

IdinaBellFoster said: "Shows in the past have planned accordingly and altered the performance week. I remember WAR PAINT didn't have a matinee on Tony day - something LuPone & Ebersole probably negotiated."

A one-off schedule change would still result in less box office for anything that wasn't a huge hit show.

Lord. Do Y'all KNOW how rough the weeks leading up to the TONY awards are? It's ridiculous! There's all the other award shows, you're doing interviews and press and Good morning America and The View, there's rehearsal and camera blocking rehearsal, not to mention (at OOTI especially), they are losing SEVERAL cast members very soon (Alysha, Grasan, Loren, Alex, etc.), so they're doing rehearsals AND put-ins. The day of the awards show you have to be at your theatre at 8am. Of COURSE you need to take care of yourself, which may mean calling out. There should be a freaking matinee on that Sunday - it's absurd to do a TONY rehearsal, then matinee, then TONY performance, AFTER you've just done 8 shows. Sweet Lord. Get off your high horse, go sit on your couch.