Sentence examples for on the understudy from inspiring English sources
A few days before opening night, they decided they would put on the understudy instead.
Like all beleaguered special interests, understudies have their own tribe of supporters: a Web site called BroadwayUnderstudies.com is "dedicated to the performers whose names appear on the understudy board and the fans who pray for little white slips of paper to be thrust into their Playbills".
"I never got to go on," she said of the understudy jobs; rather, while waiting backstage, she wrote school papers on her laptop.
Chris remembers the night well, as he had to go on for the understudy, even though he wasn't covering that part.
Roberta Maxwell, the lead in "Equus," refused to be videotaped in the nude, Ms. Corwin said, so the understudy went on.
Recently, an understudy he knows took over mid-performance after the actor he was covering put his back out, only for the understudy to slip on a discarded fur coat in the wings and break his own leg.
"She could go on as the understudy," Ebersole whispered.
It looks like a real game, sounds like a real game and absolutely costs the same as a real game, yet for most spectators the preseason finale ultimately packs all the reward of going to a Broadway show on the day the understudy takes the stage.
Mr. Robbins, a soft-spoken director who displayed a teacher's encouraging hand during rehearsal, said Ms. Rebeck had been his first choice for the commission because he had long been an admirer of her "edgy, fearless work," which includes the plays "Mauritius" on Broadway and "The Understudy" Off Broadway.
It's like being called on stage as the understudy to play a role that belongs to someone else.
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