VERA STARK Understudies?
VERA STARK Understudies?
#1VERA 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!
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#2VERA 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
#3VERA STARK Understudies?
Posted: 6/7/11 at 6:55pm
For Gloria/Anne Mae/Afua Assata Ejobo--Natascia Diaz
That's such an odd combination.
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
#4VERA STARK Understudies?
Posted: 6/9/11 at 4:34pmHave 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
#5VERA STARK Understudies?
Posted: 6/9/11 at 4:56pmI have. And it seems odd to me too. Would an hispanic Gloria work?
#6VERA 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
#7VERA STARK Understudies?
Posted: 6/9/11 at 7:26pmMakes sense. Though, Olivo's characters were black. Would Diaz have passed as a light skinned black woman?
#8VERA 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
