Sentence examples for serving as an understudy from inspiring English sources

The young actress turned to theatre, serving as an understudy to Marianne Faithfull's Ophelia in a London production of Hamlet.

After serving as an understudy on Master Harold and The Boys, the director of that show encouraged Steggert to try out for his revival of 110 In The Shade starring...Audra McDonald.

He did serve as an understudy on one mission.

The bird, named Peace, had served as an understudy for Liberty, another turkey at the 2011 Thanksgiving pardoning ceremony.

Beane had earlier served as an understudy to Athletics general manager Sandy Alderson, who had read James's Baseball Abstract while constructing a roster that won three straight American League (AL) championships beginning in 1988.

Page was replaced by Moran, who had served as an understudy for The Wiggles for five years and had already stood in for Page for 150 shows.

In 1996, Michigan dealt with a starting quarterback returning from a season-ending injury and a depleted receiving group: Scott Dreisbach had missed the final two-thirds of the season, leaving Brian Griese as the starter and freshman Tom Brady served as an understudy.

This comic/satiric work from 2007 involves an established actor unhappily reduced to serving as understudy for an action movie star in a Broadway play.

She is an actress and singer juggling three small boys and a Pelham household, with a résumé that includes dancing in one opera at the Met ("Bluebeard's Castle") and serving as the understudy for a nude walk-on part in another ("The Voyage," and no, she never went on).

Consider serving as a volunteer.

Amid a night of so many peaks, though, one raucous moment stood out: Elvis Costello, who was serving as Justin Timberlake's understudy, did a rendition of one of the highlights of "Inside Llewyn Davis".