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Theater Workers for a Ceasefire
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I'm having trouble think of others, besides Billy Porters one city stint on the kinky Boots tour. I'm sure there are more, though.
In our millions, in our billions, we are most powerful when we stand together. TW4C unwaveringly joins the worldwide masses, for we know our liberation is inseparably bound.
Signed,
Theater Workers for a Ceasefire
https://theaterworkersforaceasefire.com/statement
If we are talking specifically about Tony winners touring their Tony winning roles, Cherry Jones did the DOUBT tour.
"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
Heres one......was in NY when Next to Normal was playing and we were excited to see Alice Ripley as I had read how wonderful she was in the role. Well, unfortunately on the night of our show the understudy was on as Miss Ripley was off that day I guess. (show was awesome, loved it regardless) A year or so later, the touring production comes to Seattle, with Miss Ripley in the lead role again as part of the tour. It was a second chance to see her! So we make the trip down to Seattle and what do ya know.....the understudy was on again for that show as well. Just one of those things, but what are the odds??
Not sure how many cities she did (I only know for sure she did Chicago, since that's where I saw her) but Angela Lansbury toured "Sweeney Todd," with George Hearn as her Sweeney. Glorious.
(And, canadian fan, by that point, you were better off with Ripley's understudy)
canadian fan said: "Heres one......was in NY when Next to Normal was playing and we were excited to see Alice Ripley as I had read how wonderful she was in the role. Well, unfortunately on the night of our show the understudy was on as Miss Ripley was off that day I guess. (show was awesome, loved it regardless) A year or so later, the touring production comes to Seattle, with Miss Ripley in the lead role again as part of the tour. It was a second chance to see her! So we make the trip down to Seattle and what do ya know.....the understudy was on again for that show as well. Just one of those things, but what are the odds??
Be happy you did. She performed when we saw it on tour and her voice was a mess. Shoe was still amazing but I wondered if it was me until I read the reviews next day - same response - Great Show but "Ripley’s voice was both hard to understand and slightly off key." Also tells you how great a show it was when the lead is having issues and everyone still is in awe.
Many Tony Award winners will open the 1st National Tour of the shows they won for but only appear in a couple of the first cities. They don't stay with the tour.
BrodyFosse123 said: "Many Tony Award winners will open the 1st National Tour of the shows they won for but only appear in a couple of the first cities. They don't stay with the tour. "
"Many" is a relative term, but is misleading in this case. Several have done this, probably less than 10 in the past decade.