Understudys
Understudys
jetts7
Leading Actor Joined: 5/22/11
#1Understudys
Posted: 4/8/12 at 1:27pmHas an understudy ever gone on for opening night or closing night?
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#2Understudys
Posted: 4/8/12 at 1:29pmYup.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#2Understudys
Posted: 4/8/12 at 1:32pm
Godspell had an understudy in (for Turn Back).
And there was an understudy in for the closing of ragtime in the role of Mother. (I'm pretty sure that's how it happened -- but that may have changed since they delayed closing by a wweek or two after it was announced.)
Emmaloucbway
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/16/11
#3Understudys
Posted: 4/8/12 at 10:31pmI remember Wilson Jermaine Heredia missed the closing night of the recent revival of LA CAGE, so his understudy got to go on for the final performance.
Visceral_Fella
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/18/12
#4Understudys
Posted: 4/8/12 at 10:36pmYes, as dramamama said Mamie Parris played the role of mother in the final performance of Ragtime.
Hina2
Chorus Member Joined: 4/6/12
HBP
Broadway Star Joined: 6/2/05
#6Understudys
Posted: 4/8/12 at 10:46pmooh, how was mamie in ragtime? she sounds pretty great as elphaba in the 1NT. far better than the one gracing the gershwin, now.
chewy5000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
#8Understudys
Posted: 4/8/12 at 10:49pmOr, more correctly, understudies.
#9Understudys
Posted: 4/8/12 at 10:49pmI remember reading that Jessica Lee Goldyn went on for Charlotte D'Amboise as Cassie in the final week of the ACL revival. What was the reason for that? I don't recall. from Roman in Austin, Texas
#10Understudys
Posted: 4/8/12 at 10:58pmDidn't someone need their understudy to go on for the closing performance of "August: Osage County" also?
#11Understudys
Posted: 4/8/12 at 11:14pm
I remember reading that Jessica Lee Goldyn went on for Charlotte D'Amboise as Cassie in the final week of the ACL revival. What was the reason for that? I don't recall. from Roman in Austin, Texas
Charlotte left a few weeks before the show closed, so the final weeks of the run were shared between Goldyn and Nadine Isenegger, I believe.
Didn't someone need their understudy to go on for the closing performance of "August: Osage County" also?
Elizabeth Ashley missed the final performance of the show and Rondi Reed (who won the Tony for the role) went on for her. She was in Wicked at the time, but had her understudy go on in that show so she could appear in August that afternoon.
Visceral_Fella
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/18/12
#12Understudys
Posted: 4/8/12 at 11:25pmNot sure if you're counting tours, but Adrienne Warren left the Dreamgirls tour a month early to do Bring it On, so one of her understudies performed at the last show.
#13Understudies
Posted: 4/8/12 at 11:48pm
Kevin Curtin was the final John in the London production of Miss Saigon.
Didn't Elizabeth DeGrazia's understudy perform on opening night of Jane Eyre?
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