She definitely had an understudy, because she was out at the performance I attended. I can't remember who it was, though--must not have made an impression.
"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
Is it possible the understudy chose not to be listed? I seem to remember another thread saying that sometimes understudies don't want to be listed in the Playbill, so when they go on there's the full page insert with their bio and headshot.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
I think it was the same person who was Boyd Gaines' understudy. But he was already going on for Boyd so much when they discovered that Boyd couldn't sing the role that the others were forced to do the show because there was no understudy.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
"He played Bobby at more performances than Boyd Gaines."
Interestingly enough, Boyd got well enough and showed up when the performance was taped for NYPL Lincoln Center Archives. I know because I was there. And he cracked on the note at the end of Barcelona when he sang "Oh God".
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.