Understudy Hall: ‘Phantom’’s Jeremy Stolle drives his BMW all over the Majestic
Tweet We’ve all done it. We’ve taken our seats in a Broadway theater, opened our Playbills in anticipation of the rising curtain, and groaned when that little slip of paper has fallen out and floated...
View ArticleUnderstudy Hall: ‘Memphis’’s Bryan Fenkart is worth teaching how to dance
Tweet While Chad Kimball builds Tony buzz for his exhaustive lead performance as Huey Calhoun in the new musical Memphis, his understudy Bryan Fenkart is making a very visible Broadway debut. Having...
View ArticleUnderstudy Hall: ‘At This Performance’: Spring 2010
Tweet Before the actors took the stage for the penultimate performance of the spring series of At This Performance concerts Sunday night, Musicals Tonight! artistic director Mel Miller delivered the...
View ArticleUnderstudy Hall: ‘Carnage’’s Charlotte Maier doesn’t need vomiting lessons
Tweet Imagine being trained to do a job and then having to wait a year to apply it. That’s how long Charlotte Maier had to wait to unleash Annette’s projectile vomit and tackle her on-stage husband as...
View ArticleUnderstudy Hall: ‘Race”s Afton C. Williamson is no longer a clenched fist
Tweet Every day, understudies hope to go on in the role they cover. Yet as much as that is the desire they obsess over, the even greater dream is to take over the part permanently. Understudy veteran...
View Article‘The Fantasticks’’s Matt Leisy is silent no longer
Tweet The Fantasticks is giving Matt Leisy his voice, literally and figuratively. After playing the Mute (yes, a non-speaking role) for a year and understudying the young lover Matt, Leisy was...
View ArticleConcert recap: At This Performance, October 2011
Tweet The latest installment of the At This Performance concert series brought big laughs Sunday night. The concert that gives Broadway understudies and standbys the spotlight saw performers choosing...
View ArticleThe agony and the ecstasy of Anything Goes’ Robert Creighton
Tweet Robert Creighton made the decision that he would not understudy anymore. After covering roles in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and The Little Mermaid on Broadway, he felt that he was losing his spark,...
View ArticleGhost‘s Jennifer Sanchez displays ‘model behavior’ on Broadway and as a...
Tweet “What was the name of that cheese that I like?” It’s the seventh voicemail Candela leaves for her MIA friend Pepa in the song “Model Behavior” in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. While...
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