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| Posted by: AlanScott 07:44 pm EDT 07/11/18 | |
| In reply to: A Question - Britannia 07:32 pm EDT 07/11/18 | |
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| Yes, it's very odd. Why would they have cared so much? Unless they truly felt he was terrible in the role, that he'd been good at one time but had gone way downhill, but was he the only understudy? Don't most musicals nowadays have at least two understudies for every principal role? I really don't know. And given some of the reportedly incompetent or mediocre performances in bigger roles that the production has occasionally had over the years . . . One thing that is interesting to me in this story, which I haven't followed all the closely (just read two or three articles so far): Has anyone from the company come forward to defend either Bobbie or Stifelman or cast doubt on their reported behavior? I saw that the Roxie understudy said she'd had similar problems with Stifelman but had nothing bad to say about Bobbie, but she also didn't exactly say, "I find this reported behavior unimaginable on Bobbie's part." |
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| re: A Question | |
| Posted by: writerkev 09:45 am EDT 07/12/18 | |
| In reply to: re: A Question - AlanScott 07:44 pm EDT 07/11/18 | |
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| I would imagine that there is another cover for the role, and stage management (or whoever decides) was choosing not to put him onstage. That's the only reason it can make sense that Walter Bobbie allegedly was pissed that he hadn't played the role since February. | |
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| re: A Question | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 08:18 am EDT 07/13/18 | |
| In reply to: re: A Question - writerkev 09:45 am EDT 07/12/18 | |
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| Yes, unless it was simply that the regular Mary Sunshine had not missed any performances during that time, and Bobbie was just being irrational, which may seem unlikely but is possible. If Loeffelholz's notes were accurate, Bobbie was behaving pretty irrationally. | |
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