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[pants2]

Posted: 6/27/07 at 3:36pm

how many shows a week does JLY actually do? I'm guessing when my friend said 4 he was joking?

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 6/27/07 at 3:36pm

6

[Born To Reign]

Posted: 6/27/07 at 3:38pm

I guess he went to The LaChanze School for Tony Winners(tm)

[bwaygal1]

Posted: 6/27/07 at 3:57pm

In his defense-he does six shows a week because vocally he arguably has the most challenging male role on Broadway. (I think my avatar has the hardest female role.)
John Lloyd Young doesn't want to ruin his voice by trying to push through those extra two performances a week. It's much better for him to rest and be 100% than to be less than stellar.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 6/27/07 at 3:59pm

And didn't he have an alternate BEFORE he won the Tony?

[Born To Reign]

Posted: 6/27/07 at 4:02pm

I have no idea. I was just being a bitch to be a bitch. I couldn't care either way. Though if I was some sucker who paid $400 for a seat, I'd be a little ticked (though I will never, ever be that sucker)

[bwaygal1]

Posted: 6/27/07 at 4:02pm

Only a standby. I'm sure there was an unspoken understanding that since the Tony voters wanted to see him and not his alternate, he would get the alternate after he won the Tony.

[popular_elphie]

Posted: 6/27/07 at 9:17pm

bwaygal1, I think Christine Daae may be the hardest (vocal-wise) role on Broadway.

He's out this and next week. I was around the theater today, and people were raving about Michael Longoria. No worries.

[wicked_mimi]

Posted: 6/27/07 at 11:57pm

John isn't the only person who plays Frankie (there are two tours) and neither one of those actors do 8 shows a week either. It is simply too vocally demanding a show. John used to do 8 shows a week before his first contract was renewed and always had the option of doing 7 if he felt he needed a show off. When he got his new contract after the Tonys though it was decided that he, along with all future Frankie's, would only do 6 shows a week with another person doing the matinees on 2 show days.

He never had an alternate. If he wasn't on an understudy went on. And it wasn't so much the fact that he won the Tony that he stopped doing 8 shows a week... it was the fact that was when his contract was up.