Accidental Understudy

[felixbunay]

Weird show today. The lead actress (and in Once Upon a Mattress, that's a lot of work) collapsed fifteen minutes before curtain (from nervous exhaustion, I suspect?), and went to the hospital. One of the ladies of the chorus, who was roughly the same size, shape and voice type, had five minutes notice before going on in her place. Well, twenty

Comments

[zyzyly]

Wow--I can't even imagine going on with 5 minutes notice!

By the way, it is so nice to see your post!

Is there such a thing as an overstudy?

[felixbunay]

I think Natalie Portman won the Oscar by overstudying a professional dancer.

Yeah, I've been slumming around the Fehsbook because so many people seem to have migrated there, but it is a barren source of amusement compared to the good old days of LJ.

[daunserly]

Wow! Keep her in mind for future shows, eh? And let us know how the 8 went.

[felixbunay]

Eh, they went fine (so far). Nice to do some serious tenoring. Otherwise (other than the interesting developments of this afternoon), pretty much same old same old.

[nomisnobel]

Woah. Hope she's ok, and that's all it was. Way to go filler inner! Sorry to have missed this one, too. Stephanie and I were in discussions about attendng but couldn't make our schedules match up. :(