Here's a few instances that I can remember from over the years:
Dee Pelletier on for Amy Morton in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (final cast, two weeks before it closed -- I also saw Morton with the full original cast earlier in the run)
Tony Carlin on for Byron Jennings in HEARTBREAK HOUSE
Roxanna Hope on for Gina Gershon and Liam Craig on for Mark Rylance in BOEING BOEING (at two different performances -- I also saw it with the full original cast)
Richard Gallagher on for Santino Fontana in THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
Victoire Charles on for Portia and Susan Heyward on for Condola Rashad in RUINED (same performance)
Deborah Offner, Amy Warren and Mimi Lieber all go on for Andrea Martin at the same performance of ACT ONE -- Martin played three roles in the show, and each of the three understudies played a different track. I've never seen a principal track split up like that before or since.
Brian Avers on for David Wilmot in THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE (I also saw Wilmot, who was amazing)
That's all I can think of, although I'm sure there are more that I'm forgetting.
"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
Updated On: 6/4/18 at 05:24 PM
