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#26

re: Understudies you wish you saw!

Posted: 2/24/07 at 3:08am

I saw Terry Klausner in Evita. She is very, very talented. I also saw her in "Sophisticated Ladies" with a guy, I swear could play Mr. Fantastic named P.J. Benjamin. Talk about limber.....

I saw Liza in Chicago (as I recounted here a few months back.) That is still the easiest way I know to induce chills. I just close my eyes and remember the way the audience changed from disapointment to utter elation during the course of the "Ladies and Gentlemen, at this performance..." announcement.

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#27

re: Understudies you wish you saw!

Posted: 2/24/07 at 3:13am

Karen Mason in Sunset Boulevard...although I never would have paid to see Sunset Boulevard.

"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive. "Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot." "No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one." Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.

#28

re: Understudies you wish you saw!

Posted: 2/24/07 at 8:01am

I really wanted to see Tina Maddigan in The Wedding Singer!

#29

re: Understudies you wish you saw!

Posted: 2/24/07 at 8:17am

I wanted to see Christia Sivrich play Julia in TWS, but from what I gather, she was only meh.

#30

re: Understudies you wish you saw!

Posted: 2/24/07 at 9:43am

amy spanger as velma in chicago

marcus paul james as benny in rent

ava gaudet as mimi in rent

shoshana bean as velma von tussle

merwin foard as petruchio and jud fry

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#31

re: Understudies you wish you saw!

Posted: 2/24/07 at 9:56am

Nikkie Renee Daniels as Fantine.

#32

re: Understudies you wish you saw!

Posted: 2/24/07 at 10:16am

Yes, I'm another vote for Karen Mason in Sunset Blvd.

#33

re: Understudies you wish you saw!

Posted: 2/24/07 at 10:19am

As I was suffering through Bernadette Peters in ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, I was wishing that the understudy had gone on for her

The 2nd time I saw HALF A SIXPENCE I was extremely disappointed that the understudy was in for the fabulous Tommy Steele. The understudy gave only a fair performance but went on to better things....it was Joey Gray.

If I had been born at the time, I wish I could have been at Erlanger's Theatre in NYC in 1930 the night my aunt, Marion Herson, stepped in for Nell O'Day. Now that would really have been exciting for me!

#34

re: Understudies you wish you saw!

Posted: 2/24/07 at 10:59am

For those who didn't get to see her, I wish you had seen the great Linda Mugleston in Kiss Me Kate (Lili), Into the Woods (the Witch), and I'd wish I'd seen her in On the Town (Hildy), Nine (Luisa) and Wonderful Town (Ruth Sherwood). She is so talented, and I hope she gets a great role to originate soon.

I killed the boss, you don't think they're gonna fire me over a thing like that!!!!

#35

re: Understudies you wish you saw!

Posted: 2/24/07 at 12:17pm

Joel Gray in Half aSixpence. I guess you know that the brother banker was played by young John Cleese.....

#36

re: Understudies you wish you saw!

Posted: 2/24/07 at 12:50pm

Shoshana as Velma von Tussle - what an age difference!

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#37

re: Understudies you wish you saw!

Posted: 2/24/07 at 1:12pm

I wish I had seen Susan Owen or Kris Koop as Christine in Phantom so I wouldn't have had to deal with the worst Christine ever, Rebecca Pitcher.

#38

re: Understudies you wish you saw!

Posted: 2/24/07 at 1:32pm

Maureen Moore and Karen Mason in Sunset Boulevard and Maureen Moore in Gypsy. Maureen Moore is the standby queen having stood by for Bernadette in Song and Dance, as well.

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#39

re: Understudies you wish you saw!

Posted: 2/24/07 at 1:36pm

Dottie, you do know Ms. Moore is now standing by for Christine Ebersole, right?

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#40

re: Understudies you wish you saw!

Posted: 2/24/07 at 2:26pm

um...me?
i vote for me :)

#41

re: Understudies you wish you saw!

Posted: 2/24/07 at 2:44pm

Miss Pennywise, I most certainly do.

Hey Dottie! Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany

#42

re: Understudies you wish you saw!

Posted: 2/24/07 at 2:51pm

Maybe you'll go back to see it if she's in it!!!!!

"Be on your guard! Jerks on the loose!"

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"If any relationship involves a flow chart, get out of it...FAST!"

~ Best12Bars

#43

re: Understudies you wish you saw!

Posted: 2/24/07 at 2:52pm

Emily Skinner as Lucy in "Jekyll & Hyde"

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists. - Stephen Sondheim

#44

re: Understudies you wish you saw!

Posted: 2/24/07 at 3:04pm

Maureen Moore will be stepping in for Christine Ebersole tomorrow (25th) through Wednesday (28th). It's up on telecharge.com. There's your chance!

It's like writing "Norma Shearer for the win!" in a Joan Crawford biography.

#45

re: Understudies you wish you saw!

Posted: 2/24/07 at 8:05pm

I wish I saw Marissa McGowan as Eponine in Les Mis, from what I have heard about her I think I would have liked her better than Melissa Lyons.

#46

re: Understudies you wish you saw!

Posted: 2/24/07 at 8:17pm

Maureen Moore has played / understudied some of the most celebrated female leads ever:

Rose in Gypsy
Fantine in Les Mis
Norma in Sunset Boulevard
Jenny in Threepenny Opera
Edith/Edie in Grey Gardens

I saw her as Rose and she was FIERCE. Her vocals were fantastic and her acting was breathtaking.

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To Kill A Mockingbird

Updated On: 2/24/07 at 08:17 PM

#47

re: Understudies you wish you saw!

Posted: 2/24/07 at 8:36pm

Brad Anderson & Justin Patterson as Chad in All Shook Up
[saw Brad at Bryant Park, wonder how he was in the whole show.]

Laura Bell Bundy as Glinda in Wicked
Shoshana Bean as Tracy Turnblad and Matron/Prudy/Gym Teacher in Hairspray

Cara Cooper as Natalie/Ed in All Shook Up or Holly in The Wedding Singer.

"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.

#48

re: Understudies you wish you saw!

Posted: 2/24/07 at 8:44pm

"um...me?
i vote for me :)"

Frances, I'm beginning to think you're a narcissist.

#49

re: Understudies you wish you saw!

Posted: 2/24/07 at 8:52pm

Nowadays there are always ways to see understudies. Take the aforementioned narcissist, for example...

#50

re: Understudies you wish you saw!

Posted: 2/24/07 at 8:54pm

who is she and what does she understudy?

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