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#1

VERA STARK Understudies?

Posted: 6/6/11 at 11:08pm

Can someone with a recent Playbill for BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK post the understudies for the show?

It's much appreciated!
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#3

VERA STARK Understudies?

Posted: 6/7/11 at 6:58am

For Vera/Lottie--Melle Powers
For Brad/Slasvick/Peter/Maximillian--Peter Rini
For Leroy/Herb--Jordan Mahome
For Gloria/Anne Mae/Afua Assata Ejobo--Natascia Diaz
"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
#4

VERA STARK Understudies?

Posted: 6/7/11 at 6:55pm

For Gloria/Anne Mae/Afua Assata Ejobo--Natascia Diaz

That's such an odd combination.
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#5

VERA STARK Understudies?

Posted: 6/9/11 at 4:34pm

Have you seen the play?
"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
#6

VERA STARK Understudies?

Posted: 6/9/11 at 4:56pm

I have. And it seems odd to me too. Would an hispanic Gloria work?
#7

VERA STARK Understudies?

Posted: 6/9/11 at 5:02pm

*spoiler*

Natascia Diaz is a light-skinned Hispanic woman (much lighter than Olivo) and she could, in my opinion, easily play a mixed-race woman who is passing for white. In fact, in my personal opinion, I think it's an interesting prospect to have an actress who isn't purely white as Gloria. That said, they probably got to the point in the run where they had to hire understudies and wanted to keep costs down by doubling.

"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: 6/9/11 at 05:02 PM

#8

VERA STARK Understudies?

Posted: 6/9/11 at 7:26pm

Makes sense. Though, Olivo's characters were black. Would Diaz have passed as a light skinned black woman?
#9

VERA STARK Understudies?

Posted: 6/9/11 at 7:30pm

I think so. Anne Mae is a black woman who can credibly pass for Brazilian (which, in the play, is equated for whiteness). Olivo does this well, and I think Diaz would have been able to as well, were she given the chance to perform the role.

I would be very interested in her Gloria, though. Having seen her on stage before, I think it's a nice fit of actress and role.
"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

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