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| Posted by: CamMacFan 12:04 am EST 02/14/19 | |
| In reply to: I believe theaters are becoming more evasive regarding performer absences.... - Michaels 11:40 pm EST 02/13/19 | |
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| I remember full page cast lists as far back as Rent (or maybe it was just the cast board in the lobby). I remember hearing that it saved money since Ushers were paid extra for each insert that they stuffed. I just thought it was because there were so many understudies on such a regular basis that they just didn't want the audience to know they weren't seeing the regular cast | |
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| re: I believe theaters are becoming more evasive regarding performer absences.... | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 10:39 am EST 02/14/19 | |
| In reply to: re: I believe theaters are becoming more evasive regarding performer absences.... - CamMacFan 12:04 am EST 02/14/19 | |
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| I believe RENT was the first show to start doing this. What I heard at the time was the original cast was so young, raw, and unused to performing 8 times a week that, once the show settled in for its run and the first excitement of previews and opening was past, at least one cast member was out of the show at nearly every performance and it became difficult to actually see the lauded original cast all performing together. (The first time I went it was Adam Pascal who was out...no memory who I saw as Roger.) So rather than fill the PLAYBILL every night with understudy slips, they started printing up full page inserts with the cast that was performing at that particular performance. | |
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| re: I believe theaters are becoming more evasive regarding performer absences.... | |
| Last Edit: bmc 04:41 am EST 02/14/19 | |
| Posted by: bmc 04:34 am EST 02/14/19 | |
| In reply to: re: I believe theaters are becoming more evasive regarding performer absences.... - CamMacFan 12:04 am EST 02/14/19 | |
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| When I was taken to see the Nat Co. of Molly Brown in Boston in summer of '62, there was a knee high placard in the small lobby of the Shubert. It stated 'at this performance the role of Molly Tobin will be played by Karen Morrow'. My godmother asked me if I wanted to get tix to see Tammy Grimes at another date I said no- I can't remember if there was an announcement from the stage- but from our seats in the first row of the balcony, we noticed an empty box seat and my godmother asked the usher at intermission if we could switch to the box, so that's where we sat. And of course Miss Morrow and Harve Presnell were just wonderful.........But what I remember especially was that while my godmother was at the boxoffice window,buying tix for my mother and sister to see the show the following week, I noticed that sign and said "Tammy Grimes isn't on today"(I knew Molly Tobin was the same as Molly Brown-I knew the cast album by heart) and when I said Tammy Grimes isn't on today, I heard several "What?s and the line at the box office got longer. | |
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| re: I believe theaters are becoming more evasive regarding performer absences.... | |
| Posted by: James99 08:36 am EST 02/14/19 | |
| In reply to: re: I believe theaters are becoming more evasive regarding performer absences.... - bmc 04:34 am EST 02/14/19 | |
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| My first time in a Boston theater was a birthday present to see the same National Company of "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" ....Tammy Grimes was happily on that September day. But I do recall the same placard in the Shubert lobby many years later announcing that Margaret Hamilton was out that evening in the tour of "A Little Night Music" and would be replaced by Hermione Gingold! A spoken announcement was also made saying she had taken the Amtrak up from NY to do the show. So I saw Jean Simmons and Hermione Gingold together before the London production....and got to see HG play Madame Armfeldt for a 3rd time after seeing her twice in the pre-Broadway tryout at the Colonial! | |
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| re: I believe theaters are becoming more evasive regarding performer absences.... | |
| Posted by: bmc 01:08 pm EST 02/14/19 | |
| In reply to: re: I believe theaters are becoming more evasive regarding performer absences.... - James99 08:36 am EST 02/14/19 | |
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| An amazing story, James! The only time I saw LaGingold on stage was when she toured with SIDE BY SIDE WITH SONDHEIM. In this case the replacement occurred After intermission, when a new Guy came onstage. Also Gingold's solo was not "Liasons" from ALNM, But "The Madam's Song" from the Seven Per Cent SOLUTION | |
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