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#51

re: Understudies You Liked Better Than the Person Playing the Role

Posted: 2/27/08 at 1:09am

A quick question for those who saw Maureen Moore in GG...

Did they use a different recording of "Girl Who Has Everything" or just Christine's?

#52

re: Understudies You Liked Better Than the Person Playing the Role

Posted: 2/27/08 at 1:10am

Coleen Sexton in Wicked. One of the best Elphabas I have seen.

#53

re: Understudies You Liked Better Than the Person Playing the Role

Posted: 2/27/08 at 1:28am

Caren Lyn Manuel as Mimi in RENT.
Becky Gulsvig as Elle in LB.
Noah Weisberg and Bryce Ryness as Emmett in LB.
Nadine as Cassie in ACL.
Krysta Rodriguez as Wendla in Spring Awakening.
Matt Doyle as pretty much everything specifically as Melchior, Otto and Georg.
Kelly Karbacz as Maureen in RENT.

#54

re: Understudies You Liked Better Than the Person Playing the Role

Posted: 2/27/08 at 4:13am

bwaylvsong,

When Maureen went on, they had a recording of her singing "Girl Who Has Everything."

#55

re: Understudies You Liked Better Than the Person Playing the Role

Posted: 2/27/08 at 9:47am

LOVED Katie Adams - the Glinda standby

HATED Kate Reinders - the ACTUAL Glinda

"The nice thing about the rain is that it always stops... eventually."

- Eeyore

#56

re: Understudies You Liked Better Than the Person Playing the Role

Posted: 2/27/08 at 10:11am

Definitely Krysta Rodriguez as Wendla.
Also, too many from RENT to name. Let's just say that Tamyra grey can't even be compared to Karmine Alers and Caren Lyn Manuel .

<-- Gwen Stewart, SOLoist at the last show of RENT
Cages or wings? Which do you prefer? Ask the birds. Fear or love, baby? Don't say the answer Actions speak louder than words. (Tick, Tick... BOOM!)

#57

re: Understudies You Liked Better Than the Person Playing the Role

Posted: 2/27/08 at 11:30am

I definitely liked JJ Singleton better as Flounder in the LM then Brian, Trevor or Cody

#58

re: Understudies You Liked Better Than the Person Playing the Role

Posted: 2/27/08 at 11:54am

Cheyenne Jackson over Adam Pascal in Aida. Adam is great, but Cheyenne was incredible.

#59

re: Understudies You Liked Better Than the Person Playing the Role

Posted: 2/27/08 at 12:42pm

Thanks, logan0215!

#60

re: Understudies You Liked Better Than the Person Playing the Role

Posted: 2/27/08 at 12:42pm

Thanks, logan0215!

#61

re: Understudies You Liked Better Than the Person Playing the Role

Posted: 2/27/08 at 1:06pm

Oh and how can i forget, Becky as Margot in Legally Blonde. Don't get my wrong, I love Haven just... LB didn't exactly bring out her best talent. (and we're talking understudy, so I'm not comparing Becky to Analeigh, just clarifying that)

<-- Gwen Stewart, SOLoist at the last show of RENT
Cages or wings? Which do you prefer? Ask the birds. Fear or love, baby? Don't say the answer Actions speak louder than words. (Tick, Tick... BOOM!)

#62

re: Understudies You Liked Better Than the Person Playing the Role

Posted: 2/27/08 at 9:35pm

Megan Lewis as Young "Little" Edie in Grey Gardens
and
Haviland Stillwell as Fantine in Les Miserables

Freakin' amazinggg!

Chrissy*J

#63

re: Understudies You Liked Better Than the Person Playing the Role

Posted: 2/27/08 at 9:43pm

Joey Dudding as Paul in A Chorus Line.

#64

re: Understudies You Liked Better Than the Person Playing the Role

Posted: 2/27/08 at 10:29pm

-Sarich in every role he's ever understudied.

-Ben Eakeley as Anthony in the Sweeney revival.

-Matt Doyle as Melchoir in Spring Awakening.

-Tim Martin Gleason as the Phantom.

#65

re: Understudies You Liked Better Than the Person Playing the Role

Posted: 2/27/08 at 11:08pm

I liked Karmine as Mimi more than Tamyra. I love Tamyra's voice, and she's a phenominal performer, but to me she just wasn't Mimi. I don't know, maybe it was the hair. I loved every Mimi I've seen (including Rosario in the movie), but to me Karmine was just a little better than Tamyra.

#66

re: Understudies You Liked Better Than the Person Playing the Role

Posted: 2/27/08 at 11:32pm

I saw Kevin Kern in Stepehen Lynch's place at the Wedding Singer, and really enjoyed his performance. He and Stephen are very similar in how they play the role, so I wouldn't say that Kevin was better, but he definitely gave a really nice performance.

#67

re: Understudies You Liked Better Than the Person Playing the Role

Posted: 2/28/08 at 1:07am

Megan Sikora was one of the best Glinda's I ever saw, so much I can't remember who she was understudying.

"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008

#68

re: Understudies You Liked Better Than the Person Playing the Role

Posted: 4/23/08 at 10:20pm

Karmine Mimi!!!!!
Dana Dawson Mimi (2nd act, Tamyra got a migraine)
she LOOKS 19 and sings amazing. then again, karmine is in her 40s and rocks it

Krysta Wendla
Alexandra Wendla
Matt Melchior

#69

re: Understudies You Liked Better Than the Person Playing the Role

Posted: 4/23/08 at 11:21pm

i can't believe no one has mentioned Fantasia in The Color Purple yet.

maybe it's because no one saw her! oops!

#70

re: Understudies You Liked Better Than the Person Playing the Role

Posted: 4/23/08 at 11:25pm

Fantasia wasn't an understudy.

I'll add Tim Martin Gleason as the Phantom to my list, which is interesting because I detest his Raoul, but his Phantom is incredible.

#71

re: Understudies You Liked Better Than the Person Playing the Role

Posted: 4/23/08 at 11:34pm

I found Jennifer Hughes a superior Clara Johnson to both Kelli O'Hara and Katie Clarke when she covered the role in THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA a few years ago, though Elena Shaddow's performance on tour trumped all three.

Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.

#72

re: Understudies You Liked Better Than the Person Playing the Role

Posted: 4/23/08 at 11:41pm

Lisa Brescia as Elphaba.

#73

re: Understudies You Liked Better Than the Person Playing the Role

Posted: 4/24/08 at 12:32am

I actually saw the understudy's understudy, when I saw "Grand Hotel" ages ago. David Carroll was still listed as the Baron, but had basically left the cast because he was dying of AIDS.

I saw the show when his understudy, Brent Barrett, was not available. (Possibly because he was appearing in "Closer Than Ever" Off-Broadway at the time?) I saw the swing playing the Baron and he was incredible. (I can't remember his name at present, but he was Cornelius Hackl in the last revival of "Hello Dolly" with Carol Channing and he appears on that cast album.) He was handsome, dashing, aristocratic and an incredible singer.

I loved the show so much that I went to see it again the next night and saw Brent Barrett play the Baron and I didn't like him as much as the swing. I saw him again when he played the role on tour and he had grown into the part by then.

"A coherent existance after so many years of muddle" - Desiree' Armfelt, A Little Night Music "Life keeps happening everyday, Say Yes" - 70, Girls, 70 "Life is what you do while you're waiting to die" - Zorba

#74

re: Understudies You Liked Better Than the Person Playing the Role

Posted: 4/24/08 at 12:34am

Susan Owen as Christine in Phantom, Drew Sarich as Javert, Elizabeth Loyacano instead of Melissa Errico in Dracula and I can't remember her name but the understudy for Toni Braxton in Aida. I saw Aida four times while Toni Braxton was in and luckily I had her understudy each time.

"But I can tell you that Raoul, who was so handsome in "The Phantom," is now a drunken wreck."

Updated On: 4/24/08 at 12:34 AM

#75

re: Understudies You Liked Better Than the Person Playing the Role

Posted: 4/24/08 at 12:50am

Wow. Did two people ACTUALLY say Maureen Moore over Christine Ebersole??? My heart just stopped. How can ANYONE have been better than Christine?

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