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Golda's Balcony/Tovah Feldshuh
Posted by: ablankpage 06:11 pm EDT 08/30/21

I was just on IBDB and noticed that there is no standby listed for Tovah Feldshuh, no replacements, and no note of the production going on hiatus during the run. So she really did 507 performances (including previews), 8 shows a week, in the span of 15 months, with no break? That's incredible dedication. I know Marian Seldes famously signed in for all 1,799 performances of Deathtrap. Are there any other extraordinary feats of never missing a show in a long run? Ethel Merman maybe? Also, does AEA require an understudy/standby no matter what or can the producers opt out?
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Looking at broadway world grosses
Posted by: dramedy 06:42 pm EDT 08/30/21
In reply to: Golda's Balcony/Tovah Feldshuh - ablankpage 06:11 pm EDT 08/30/21

It did play all the weeks there was one week with 6 performances and two that were 7 after it opened (opening week had only 3 performances for some reason). So maybe those were sick days and show cancelled because there wasn’t an understudy.
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