“I was 23, and I was in L.A. while on hiatus [as an understudy] from Biloxi Blues on Broadway. The guy that I'd been studying with had been fired for horsing around on stage with Matthew Broderick, and they were really anxious to get me back into the play. So I was in a great situation, and at the time, I definitely wasn't thinking about television” ThinkingPlayGuySituationStudyStageTelevisionAnxiousBroadwayMatthewHiatusUnderstudiesHorsing Around Author:David Lee
“I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also going to musical auditions because the agent I had insisted I go to them.” ComedyNeededSingingMusicalAgentsAuditionsNeeded SomeoneUnderstudies Author:John Cullum
“Drama began as the act of a whole community. Ideally, there would be no speculators. In practice, every member of the audience should feel like an understudy.” FeelsShouldWholeWould BeCommunityPracticeAudienceDramaMembersSpeculatorsUnderstudies Author:W. H. Auden
“Understudies don't normally get invited to openings.” OpeningInvitedUnderstudies Author:John Mulaney
“What we did [shooting "Fences"] was we got young students from Carnegie Mellon, the acting and theater students, and we had them as our understudies. I told them, "You have to be off book and be ready. If Viola [Davis] has to leave you have to jump in."” IfsBookYoungActingStudentsReadyTheaterShootingFenceCarnegieViolaYoung StudentsUnderstudiesCarnegie Mellon Author:Denzel Washington
“A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret you want future critics to say you played the character better.” WantPlayCharacterJusticeSecretRolesBabyTrainingCriticsPlanningBlankSlateReplacementsBlank SlatesUnderstudies Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“I dont know how it is now but the assistant stage manager had to understudy several parts. You had to be ready to go on at any time if the actor couldnt make it to the play. I didnt think anything of it.” IfsThinkingKnowsPlayActorsKnow HowStageReadyGoes OnManagersAssistantsStage ManagersUnderstudies Author:Glenn Ford
“All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since.” InspirationalTwoFunnyJobsMovingSidesClassHavensNew YorkMonthsGraduationGigsTwo MonthsBartendingUnderstudiesSister Act Author:Patina Miller
“The thing that was forfeited in the garden was regained. God gave him [Adam] dominion over the works of His hand. God made him His understudy, His king to rule over everything that had life. Man was master, man lived in the realm of god. He lived on terms of equality with God. God was a faith God. All God had to do was to believe that the sun was, and the sun was. All God had to do was to believe that the planets would be, and they were. Man belonged to God's class of being - a faith man, And he lived in the creative realm of God” MenBelieveMadeHandsWould BeTermClassSunCreativePlanetsMastersKingsGardenRealmsAdamDominionUnderstudies Author:John G. Lake
“My part had three lines. I said, You look wonderful, sir, three times. All my friends said, Do not take that role - and do not understudy. You'll regret it the rest of your life. I did both of those things, and I've never regretted it once.” LooksSaidThreeLinesRolesWonderfulRegretFriendsMy FriendsThree TimesRest Of Your LifeNever RegretUnderstudiesYou'll Regret It Author:Jeffrey Tambor
“So the Clinton-Gore era culminates with an election as stained as the blue dress, a Democratic chorus complaining that the Constitution should not be the controlling legal authority, and Clinton's understudy dispatching lawyers to litigate this: It depends on what the meaning of 'vote' is.” ShouldPoliticsDependsAuthorityVoteConstitutionElectionDressesBlueDemocraticClintonLawyerComplainingErasGoreChorusBlue DressUnderstudies Author:George Will