| 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. |
