I went to the final performance of August: Osage County on Broadway. Rondi Reed had last played the part in London about 6 months earlier, and had been performing as Madame Morrible in Wicked on Broadway. When I entered the lobby, I was confused yet elated to see on the understudy board that Rondi Reed was playing her Tony-winning role for that final performance.
I later found out that Elizabeth Ashley, who had taken over the role, was sick, and the producers asked Reed to do that final performance that morning. Reed, of course, had done the show for a couple of years in several venues by that point, but she did not miss a beat as far as I could tell throughout the 3.5 hour long show. I was extremely impressed. |
