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Understudies you wish you saw!
#25re: Understudies you wish you saw!
Posted: 2/24/07 at 3:08am
I saw Terry Klausner in Evita. She is very, very talented. I also saw her in "Sophisticated Ladies" with a guy, I swear could play Mr. Fantastic named P.J. Benjamin. Talk about limber.....
I saw Liza in Chicago (as I recounted here a few months back.) That is still the easiest way I know to induce chills. I just close my eyes and remember the way the audience changed from disapointment to utter elation during the course of the "Ladies and Gentlemen, at this performance..." announcement.
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=972787#3631451
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=963561#3533883
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955158#3440952
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954269#3427915
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955012#3441622
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954344#3428699
#26re: Understudies you wish you saw!
Posted: 2/24/07 at 3:13amKaren Mason in Sunset Boulevard...although I never would have paid to see Sunset Boulevard.
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
cate_w
Stand-by Joined: 10/6/04
#27re: Understudies you wish you saw!
Posted: 2/24/07 at 8:01amI really wanted to see Tina Maddigan in The Wedding Singer!
#28re: Understudies you wish you saw!
Posted: 2/24/07 at 8:17amI wanted to see Christia Sivrich play Julia in TWS, but from what I gather, she was only meh.
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#29re: Understudies you wish you saw!
Posted: 2/24/07 at 9:43am
amy spanger as velma in chicago
marcus paul james as benny in rent
ava gaudet as mimi in rent
shoshana bean as velma von tussle
merwin foard as petruchio and jud fry
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
PJ
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
Chris T
Understudy Joined: 9/11/05
#31re: Understudies you wish you saw!
Posted: 2/24/07 at 10:16amYes, I'm another vote for Karen Mason in Sunset Blvd.
Understudy Joined: 12/31/69
#32re: Understudies you wish you saw!
Posted: 2/24/07 at 10:19am
As I was suffering through Bernadette Peters in ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, I was wishing that the understudy had gone on for her 
The 2nd time I saw HALF A SIXPENCE I was extremely disappointed that the understudy was in for the fabulous Tommy Steele. The understudy gave only a fair performance but went on to better things....it was Joey Gray.
If I had been born at the time, I wish I could have been at Erlanger's Theatre in NYC in 1930 the night my aunt, Marion Herson, stepped in for Nell O'Day. Now that would really have been exciting for me!
#33re: Understudies you wish you saw!
Posted: 2/24/07 at 10:59amFor those who didn't get to see her, I wish you had seen the great Linda Mugleston in Kiss Me Kate (Lili), Into the Woods (the Witch), and I'd wish I'd seen her in On the Town (Hildy), Nine (Luisa) and Wonderful Town (Ruth Sherwood). She is so talented, and I hope she gets a great role to originate soon.
I killed the boss, you don't think they're gonna fire me over a thing like that!!!!
#34re: Understudies you wish you saw!
Posted: 2/24/07 at 12:17pmJoel Gray in Half aSixpence. I guess you know that the brother banker was played by young John Cleese.....
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=972787#3631451
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=963561#3533883
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955158#3440952
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954269#3427915
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955012#3441622
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954344#3428699
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#35re: Understudies you wish you saw!
Posted: 2/24/07 at 12:50pmShoshana as Velma von Tussle - what an age difference!
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
MerMaggieGalinda
Broadway Star Joined: 11/29/06
#36re: Understudies you wish you saw!
Posted: 2/24/07 at 1:12pmI wish I had seen Susan Owen or Kris Koop as Christine in Phantom so I wouldn't have had to deal with the worst Christine ever, Rebecca Pitcher.
#37re: Understudies you wish you saw!
Posted: 2/24/07 at 1:32pmMaureen Moore and Karen Mason in Sunset Boulevard and Maureen Moore in Gypsy. Maureen Moore is the standby queen having stood by for Bernadette in Song and Dance, as well.
Hey Dottie!
Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany
miss pennywise
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/04
#38re: Understudies you wish you saw!
Posted: 2/24/07 at 1:36pmDottie, you do know Ms. Moore is now standing by for Christine Ebersole, right?
http://www.roches.com/television/ss83kod.html
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stagegrrrl
Leading Actor Joined: 1/22/07
#40re: Understudies you wish you saw!
Posted: 2/24/07 at 2:44pmMiss Pennywise, I most certainly do.
Hey Dottie!
Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany
miss pennywise
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/04
#41re: Understudies you wish you saw!
Posted: 2/24/07 at 2:51pmMaybe you'll go back to see it if she's in it!!!!!
http://www.roches.com/television/ss83kod.html
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PaigeByPaige
Stand-by Joined: 10/26/05
#42re: Understudies you wish you saw!
Posted: 2/24/07 at 2:52pmEmily Skinner as Lucy in "Jekyll & Hyde"
All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.
- Stephen Sondheim
Miss.Vanessi
Stand-by Joined: 1/1/07
#43re: Understudies you wish you saw!
Posted: 2/24/07 at 3:04pmMaureen Moore will be stepping in for Christine Ebersole tomorrow (25th) through Wednesday (28th). It's up on telecharge.com. There's your chance!
It's like writing "Norma Shearer for the win!" in a Joan Crawford biography.
Colle
Broadway Star Joined: 2/13/06
#44re: Understudies you wish you saw!
Posted: 2/24/07 at 8:05pmI wish I saw Marissa McGowan as Eponine in Les Mis, from what I have heard about her I think I would have liked her better than Melissa Lyons.
#45re: Understudies you wish you saw!
Posted: 2/24/07 at 8:17pm
Maureen Moore has played / understudied some of the most celebrated female leads ever:
Rose in Gypsy
Fantine in Les Mis
Norma in Sunset Boulevard
Jenny in Threepenny Opera
Edith/Edie in Grey Gardens
I saw her as Rose and she was FIERCE. Her vocals were fantastic and her acting was breathtaking.
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
Updated On: 2/24/07 at 08:17 PM
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#46re: Understudies you wish you saw!
Posted: 2/24/07 at 8:36pm
Brad Anderson & Justin Patterson as Chad in All Shook Up
[saw Brad at Bryant Park, wonder how he was in the whole show.]
Laura Bell Bundy as Glinda in Wicked
Shoshana Bean as Tracy Turnblad and Matron/Prudy/Gym Teacher in Hairspray
Cara Cooper as Natalie/Ed in All Shook Up or Holly in The Wedding Singer.
"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.
brainpolice23
Featured Actor Joined: 8/6/06
#47re: Understudies you wish you saw!
Posted: 2/24/07 at 8:44pm
"um...me?
i vote for me :)"
Frances, I'm beginning to think you're a narcissist.
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#48re: Understudies you wish you saw!
Posted: 2/24/07 at 8:52pmNowadays there are always ways to see understudies. Take the aforementioned narcissist, for example...
#49re: Understudies you wish you saw!
Posted: 2/24/07 at 8:54pmwho is she and what does she understudy?
