Victoria Clark SITPWG

[binau]

Posted: 1/18/09 at 4:05am

Across the internet it says her first role was 1985 SITPWG but does anyone know what actual role she played?

[LadyRosecoe]

Posted: 1/18/09 at 4:52am

I remember asking this a few years ago and I think the reply I got was that she was a swing. But I don't know if that was really the case, although it is what I've since come to believe.

[Here I Am]

Posted: 1/18/09 at 4:56am

That's odd. It's not on her IBDB page.

[Hanna from Hamburg]

Posted: 1/18/09 at 6:14am

Nor is it on the IBDB page for the show:

http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=4335

and if you look at the link for replacements or understudies, she's not listed there, either. Maybe she was cast as a future replacement, but never officially got into the production because of it closing.

But says so right here . . . Broadway debut:

http://www.broadway.com/Victoria-Clark/broadway_stars/504729

Also says it here:

http://www.victoriaclarkonline.com/profile.html

This says she was an understudy:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0164594/bio

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/18/09 at 10:05am

I knew her in graduate school in the early 80s. I remember we were all excited when she got the job.

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 1/18/09 at 10:09am

Yes shw was in the workshop at Playwrighst Horizons. So was Kelsey Grammer.

[Tevye the Dairyman]

Posted: 1/18/09 at 10:28am

who was kelsey grammer in the playwrights production?

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 1/18/09 at 10:45am

Kelsey Grammer was the Soldier, also one of the the boys bathing.

Christine Baranski was "Calrisse" (Later Yvonne, Jules' wife) and Mary Elizabteh Mastrantonio was Celeste #2.

Updated On: 1/18/09 at 10:45 AM

[Tevye the Dairyman]

Posted: 1/18/09 at 10:52am

probably just wishful thinking, but any chance grammer understudied george? i was just thinking that since in the original and revival the actors playing the soldier (Robert Westenberg and Santino Fontana)both understudied the role, perhaps kelsey grammer did the same...

[nobodyhome]

Posted: 1/18/09 at 12:19pm

I don't think anyone understudied George in the workshop.

Looking in my Sunday playbills from the end of the run, including one that I think is from the final performance (which I attended), Clark is not listed anywhere, not even among the understudies.

[James2]

Posted: 1/18/09 at 3:37pm

In another twenty years or so, does anyone else think Victoria Clark would be an excellent Old Lady/Blair Daniels?