I know the Hensons have said that I refused to have an understudy — and I don't want to have an understudy, because Jim never had understudies.
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He has been working as Miranda's understudy and dealing with cancer.
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"The hardest part is already done," Miller said of his understudy.
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That makes him sound like a co-star, not an understudy.
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" 'The Lion King' Now Ensemble, Mufasa understudy in "The Lion King.
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The worse the President looks, the more desirable his understudy seems.
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The Patriots did not change their offense drastically for Brady's understudy.
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In the post-atomic era, apes emerged as our preferred understudy.
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To make things worse, the theater company got rid of the understudy.
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Tulip, with no understudy, was doing eight shows a week, showing stress.
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But his understudy, T.J. Yeldon, missed practice Wednesday with an ankle injury.
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In every other area of your day, a sock is an understudy.
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Calabacita, or Mexican summer squash, is the understudy during this avocado fiasco.
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Ms. Moser had been an understudy and had been in the chorus.
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He watched his understudy Alexandar Georgiev, 23, perform very well this season.
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At first, Ed in "Straight White Men" was one more understudy gig.
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He will be replaced behind the plate by his understudy Austin Romine.
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Her understudy, Tulip, stepped into the role, but she was a reluctant performer.
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But, only a few miles from Broadway, a capable understudy is filling in.
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Traditionally, only one turkey was pardoned and the understudy returned to the farm.
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Sometimes you do need an understudy, but "it's not as good," he said.
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Cain replied in the Oval Office meeting that Trump could be his understudy.
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Patti Murin, currently Anna in "Frozen," made her Broadway debut as an understudy.
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After the play was written, the task was to find Ms. Brewer's understudy.
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Against Saudi Arabia, Neuer and understudy Marc-Andre ter Stegen played 45 minutes each.
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Colton Ryan, the understudy for Evan Hansen, will go on for Platt June 9.
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It feels as if an understudy is suddenly filling in for the lead role.
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In the 1994 revival, Duane Boutté, an understudy, played the role for one performance.
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The super sharp Cheddar in the fridge performed as understudy and got an ovation.
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Mr. Morsi, the understudy, got the nomination only when the first choice was disqualified.
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Cory Booker on Wednesday offered up a solution for Democrats searching out an understudy: himself.
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Last season, he was Marc-Andre Fleury's understudy with the Pittsburgh Penguins, registering nine wins.
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Along the way, Mr. Payne promised himself that he'd never do extra or understudy work.
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Young men are nothing if not understudy poets — imams, kings, despots, loafers, all of them.
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It is unclear, even to Linda herself, which familial role she is playing understudy for.
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As an understudy, she spent time backstage at the Barrymore Theater with leading actor Tyler Lea.
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Bubba left after developing cherry eye, but then returned to reprise his role as an understudy.
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The great one took Gee on as an understudy and protégée, and her career took off.
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Four days before the show opened, the producers fired Thora and replaced her with her understudy.
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But he arrived at the Lyric too late to play Cain, and an understudy stepped in.
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He's a member of the show's "workers chorus," and he is also the understudy for Hades.
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In November 2017 Svalina was artist-in-residence at Understudy, an experimental arts space in Denver.
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"I was way past the whole mythology of the understudy getting the part," Mr. Payne said.
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He made his Broadway debut as an understudy in the melodrama "Speaking of Murder" in 1956.
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San Francisco 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, once Brady's understudy in New England, faltered down the stretch.
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You've had a solid career, though most of your roles have been understudy parts and replacements.
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His understudy, Jordan Dobson, took up the role having rehearsed it only once on the stage.
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Salesforce tried out its approach on the ROUGE test, short for Recall-Oriented Understudy for Gisting Evaluation.
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Miranda was actually Muñoz's understudy during the first year, so in a way this is vintage Hamilton.
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Why her (according to Chad Beguelin) Originally, the character was going to be Elphaba's understudy [from "Wicked"].
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Mahomes will probably be an understudy to Alex Smith, who has two years left on his contract.
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His understudy, Collins, had a sensational second half, with 6 points, 7 rebounds and 5 blocked shots.
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In December, when the rat playing Toby left the play because of illness, her understudy Tulip stepped in.
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He got one Thursday — or at least a faithful understudy — in the person of Vice President Mike Pence.
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Keach completed 11 preview performances in May, but had no understudy to replace him after the opening night.
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He has previously been an ensemble member in Aladdin on Broadway and also served as the understudy for Aladdin.
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Khabib Nurmagomedov's understudy certainly impressed, imposing his will on Kuntz before earning a submission win in the second round.
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In terms of accuracy, the gold standard for evaluating the quality of machine translation is BLEU, bilingual evaluation understudy.
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But the longer Lula stays in the contest before withdrawing, the more votes his understudy is likely to win.
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While Davis, now with the Oakland Athletics, was missing from the scene, Ramirez acted as something of an understudy.
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His goal now is to meet his hero in Barcelona, and maybe even land a job as his understudy.
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Actor and understudy Michael Lee Brown stood in for Tony-winning Platt as the titular arm-breaker for Wednesday's matinee.
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In searching for an understudy, Trump over the summer reportedly narrowed his search to three finalists -- Pence, New Jersey Gov.
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Then I got a call from my agents to be an understudy on "One Life to Live" for a day.
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"A lot of people thought we were running as Biden's understudy, and they were sort of right," said one aide.
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Still, having been the third Jasmine understudy in "Aladdin" at Disneyland, she doesn't see what all the fuss is about.
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As understudy to Marcelo Álvarez, one of the Met's most prized tenors, Mr. Davila might never have seen the limelight.
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In one performance, in 1978, as the understudy for Elena Obraztsova, she had to go on at the last minute.
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I do know the story of Kate Shindle — who you didn't see today, because her understudy played my character today.
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"[Dina] was everyone's understudy, wearing leg warmers in the wings of Cats, A Chorus Line, and the Rockettes," reads the profile.
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"We couldn't have asked for a better understudy than Denali -- he really has followed in Stubbs' pawprints in just about everything."
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Some of those women have performed the Snow scene and the Waltz of the Flowers without an understudy or second cast.
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It might not be new, but it's a fitting tribute to the reigning queen of horror, as well as her understudy. .
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Ms. Dawson knows the part well — she was an understudy for it on Broadway and played Donna during the national tour.
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So for all Mr. Harrison's arguments, the role went to the understudy — Nancy Ringham, who, like Ms. Moser, was an American.
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He came back as an understudy, but he ended up doing all the performances and did very well in the role.
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He worked on Broadway in small roles or as an understudy into the mid-1970s and also appeared in regional theaters.
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Beasley's willingness to embrace an evolving role, one that even now regularly morphs from understudy to starter, explains his enduring nature.
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His understudy took over as Big Bird's puppeteer in 2015, but Mr Spinney continued to be his voice until last year.
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Stepping in for the former Destiny's Child singer will be her understudy Cassondra James, who will assume the role until Dec. 26.
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She credits her longevity with not only being able to "kick [her] face" but also being able to understudy and do bits.
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I started out making $120 a week as an understudy at the Public Theater, and was happy that I had that job.
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"It's like going to the theater and hearing that the understudy is going to be performing the role of Macbeth," he added.
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After the intermission, it was announced that Mr. Kwiecien had fallen ill and would be replaced by his understudy, Alexander Birch Elliott.
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The actor played the understudy of Aladdin and a member of the ensemble in Broadway's stage musical of the Disney animated movie.
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The cast member, Jeff Loeffelholz, an understudy who in recent years rarely performed, hadn't met with the director in a long time.
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Over her nearly six years as JPMorgan's chief financial officer Lake, 22015, has taken on more and more responsibilities effectively becoming Dimon's understudy.
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If Croatia's seaside locales have become tourism starlets, then Rijeka, a working-class port city on the Adriatic, is the country's gritty understudy.
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Dela Cruz, 24, played the understudy of Aladdin and a member of the ensemble in Broadway's stage musical of the Disney animated movie.
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That same summer he started working with the coaches Robert Rock, who still plays on the European Tour, and Rock's understudy, Liam James.
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A career understudy, Pederson became so adept at decoding defenses from the sideline, Hasselbeck said, that Brett Favre dubbed him The Front Doctor.
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Ms. Littlefield was also an understudy in "The Glass Menagerie" on Broadway in 2013-14, but she did not have an onstage opportunity.
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In each case, the lead role in the show, of weatherman Phil Connors, is to be played by Mr. Karl's understudy, Andrew Call.
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Meanwhile Ms. Schon, who was an understudy dancer in the production, had watched hundreds of performances, and did not consider it anti-Semitic.
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He missed much of that season through injury, and in the summer, Arsène Wenger brought in Manuel Almunia, a Spaniard, as Lehmann's understudy.
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After Alice Cooper's (Mädchen Amick) solo (yes, even the mothers of Riverdale get solos in this musical), the set reveals Midge — our Carrie understudy.
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If there was a planned succession, it was for Giggs to be an understudy to van Gaal for three years and then replace him.
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As Turandot, Oksana Dyka's steely, occasionally strident soprano swamped the Calàf of Arnold Rawls, a sweetly modest understudy singing his first full Met performance.
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He cast the teenage Davis as an understudy in a 1926 production with his stock company, The Lyceum Theater, an early break for her.
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McConnell's understudy, Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, has even joined in the latest anti-Trump defamatory wheeze: that the president might be mentally unbalanced.
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In her early 20s, Ms. Rudolph joined a production of the gospel musical "My Grandmother Prayed for Me," as an understudy in two roles.
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She once left a job as an understudy on Broadway to join the cast in Washington — not a move her agents would have advised.
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In 2009 he stepped up from acting as Miranda's understudy as Usnavi in Miranda's first successful musical "In The Heights" to take over the role.
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Fedor Emelianenko understudy Valentin Moldavsky advances in tournament Someone's "0" must go as two of Europe's undefeated light heavyweights faced off in the Openweight tournament.
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It's hard to think of Honor, an understudy brand to Huawei's consumer electronics operation, as a competitive name at the very highest tier of smartphones.
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Colbert, who first performed professionally as an understudy for Steve Carell at Second City Chicago, has spent a fair share of time around Chicago pizza.
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The new man, Urjit Patel, was an understudy to Mr Rajan—prompting plenty to wonder why the original cast member was, in effect, forced out.
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Three years later, when the play opened on Broadway, the role of Tina, the niece, was taken by Wendy Hiller (her understudy was Olympia Dukakis).
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Before she joined Cunningham's main company, she worked closely with him as a member of the Repertory Understudy Group, which focused intensely on this solo.
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He proved the perfect foil — a franchise player who could take it and dish it, a deft understudy to his older brothers, Cooper and Peyton.
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Ms. Rudolph returned to the roles she played as an understudy years ago and added a third, on a tour that ended in New York.
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She was an understudy for Marian Seldes in "The Chalk Garden" on Broadway in 1955 and appeared in the Broadway production of "Major Barbara" in 1956.
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But for much of the show's London run his role was played by an understudy, for reasons that, in retrospect, are now a lot more clear.
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Angelou, then a struggling actress and singer touring across the states with her calypso and blues nightclub act, was brought in to audition for Bailey's understudy.
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One of the central themes of the movie Black Swan was the rivalry between Natalie Portman's character, Nina, and her understudy, Lily, played by Mila Kunis.
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The team appears close to reaching a three-year deal with Manning's longtime understudy, Brock Osweiler, who started several games last season while Manning was injured.
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They traded the backup Calvin Pickard to Toronto the opening week of the season after claiming Malcolm Subban from Boston to be Marc-Andre Fleury's understudy.
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Lundqvist's understudy for next season is to be determined, though 22-year-old Alexandar Georgiev made a strong case for consideration in his 10 recent appearances.
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But "because he's a longtime understudy and he's a badass and he doesn't complain and he's hardworking and honorable," Ms. Shapiro said, he did it anyway.
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The more she spoke up, she said, the more he wielded his power, like putting in her understudy and threatening to replace her with another actor.
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Muñoz, who has served as Lin-Manuel Miranda's understudy in the Broadway smash, will officially take over the title role of Alexander Hamilton following Miranda's final performance.
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Mr. Pantozzi, who had seen his wife first step in as understudy earlier in the show's run, was now watching her last appearance on their wedding night.
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It was as a child actress in the short-lived 1942 musical "You'll See Stars," not as Judy Holliday's understudy in the 1956 musical "Bells Are Ringing."
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DeAngelo Williams, Steelers: D-Willy himself has battled a knee injury, so he'd need to show he's healthy before we could trust him as Le'Veon Bell's understudy.
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His name is Jevon and here's a little factoid: He's just finishing up in "Hamilton," as the understudy for Hamilton and all the other dudes who aren't Burr.
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NIAGARA ON THE LAKE, CANADA — The slip of paper lodged in Shaw Festival programs at a recent Saturday matinee didn't beg for donations or warn about an understudy.
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The Niners have the second pick in the draft and could go with a young quarterback like Mitch Trubisky of North Carolina, possibly as Romo's understudy. 23-13.
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Lundqvist's previous understudy, Antti Raanta, and Stepan were part of the June 223 deal that brought the 256-year-old defenseman Anthony DeAngelo to New York from Arizona.
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Call it the understudy beacon of tolerance, now with a chance to shine because the lead actor is sidelined with a flareup of an old condition, xenophobic fever.
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After Maurice Greenberg was forced out as chief executive in 2005, his understudy, Martin Sullivan, took over and presided over the company's near demise just three years later.
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Sweden's Karl Albrektsson, who was unofficially named "The Russian Hunter" following his first appearance in Rizin which saw him defeat Vadim Nemkov, took on Fedor Emelianenko understudy Valentin Moldavsky.
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It was like being in the theater as a stage veteran sat in costume in the front row watching the performance of his understudy in his first Broadway role.
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Mr Shanahan, a former Boeing executive, was propelled into the job of secretary of defence in January, having served as understudy to James Mattis for less than 18 months.
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Muñoz was Miranda's understudy for his musical In the Heights, and has apparently been bringing a new swagger to the role of Alexander Hamilton during the show's Sunday performances.
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Garoppolo, who spent three years as Tom Brady's understudy in New England before being traded to the 49ers in 2017, has been one of the league's most accurate passers.
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The airline Aeroflot said Viktor was too heavy for the passenger cabin, so his owner, Mikhail Galin, hatched a plan to weigh an "understudy cat" and sneak Viktor in.
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When the Spurs visited the Denver Nuggets, Popovich decided to rest a bunch of his starters, which meant that Simmons, still an understudy, got more time on the floor.
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But his understudy, Derrick Favors, kept the Jazz from losing ground by delivering three baskets without a miss, five rebounds and two assists through the remainder of the quarter.
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Last fall's Doctor Strange brought yet another cynical, selfish, wisecracking, extremely powerful middle-aged rich guy into the universe — a potential understudy for the position that Tony Stark now inhabits.
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That's right, in the Rule of Two, the master must teach his apprentice everything he knows, until the understudy is so strong that he is able to assassinate his master.
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Deschamps is resting midfielders Paul Pogba, Corentin Tolisso and Blaise Matuidi, who all risk suspension if booked, and also gives a game to Hugo Lloris's understudy in goal, Steve Mandanda.
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Geared toward ages 212 to 230, the production explores what happens when Lulu meets a young actress, an understudy whose dreams seem just as hard to achieve as Lulu's own.
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Before Stevie shows up and gives an award-worthy performance in Cabaret, a musical directed by Moira Rose, Moira puts on a wig and gets ready to play her understudy.
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Jennifer Rowley was originally an understudy for Patricia Racette as Roxane in Franco Alfano's "Cyrano de Bergerac" at the Metropolitan Opera, but Ms. Racette withdrew because of an abdominal hernia.
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The director of the production, Richard Eyre, said that at the first stage rehearsals Mr. Alagna sat to the side, singing from a score, while his understudy went through the motions.
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The Australian firm invented its version of the device in 1972, a co-creation of Bannigan and his understudy Peter Tablot, that had a look akin, to a modern-day boombox.
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But sitting out the season because of injury, Woods is not here, even if an understudy from one of his long-ago junior clinics has made his way into the field.
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The Hurricanes' best performances this season usually coincided with a strong game by its lead running back, be it Mark Walton before his season-ending injury or his understudy, Travis Homer.
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In a search for belonging and acceptance, he befriends Kanan (Curtis Jackson), a former associate and mentor turned enemy (and now friend?) of Ghost, and becomes his criminal understudy of sorts.
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Originally an understudy for Patricia Racette, she took over when Ms. Racette pulled out in March, and on Tuesday, she sang with an even, radiant tone and effortless, chiffony top notes.
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When Big Bird and Oscar occasionally performed together — bird singing ABCs, grouch fulminating — Mr. Spinney operated one puppet while an understudy handled the other, using a vocal recording by Mr. Spinney.
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She quickly got a job as an understudy in "Dear Ruth," a comedy that had been running on Broadway since 1944, and was soon in the cast as a replacement player.
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A luminous pre-Notebook Rachel McAdams plays Kate, a young understudy stuck playing Midsummer fairies while her diva roommate (a proto-Jenna Maroney unburdened by charisma or talent) butchers Shakespeare's iconic ingenues.
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" Lisa Henson, president of the Jim Henson Company and Jim's daughter, added that Whitmire refused to have an understudy for Kermit, but wouldn't appear for "B-level performances, such as ribbon-cutting.
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He had all the tools to lead a team and often excelled on the field, but he was fated to serve as the understudy to the future Hall of Famer Bart Starr.
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When I first heard the full-length project, I thought this sounded like this person was an understudy of A Guy Called Gerald when A Guy Called Gerald made Black Secret Technology.
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Instead, Scott Stangland, who has appeared regularly as the understudy for Pierre and played the role in the American Repertory Theater production, will step in for the week following Mr. Onaodowan's departure.
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"We knew this was a possibility that I might be performing, and how totally crazy it would be," Ms. Littlefield said, recalling the day she learned she was cast as an understudy.
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Perhaps quicker than anyone realistically expected, Garoppolo immediately turned around the franchise as he became the star of the show rather than the understudy he had been to Brady in New England.
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Ms. Brewer, 33, and her understudy, Edward Barbanell, 40, are thought to be the only known performers with Down syndrome to play the lead in an Off Broadway or Broadway theater production.
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Nickelodeon announced last year it would be bringing the live action show back with Cruz, who was in "Disney's Aladdin" on Broadway as the understudy for Aladdin and a member of the ensemble.
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In this instance, the model is allowed to generate a sequence of words, and the result is then scored with an automated evaluation metric known as ROUGE (Recall-Oriented Understudy for Gisting Evaluation).
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When understudy Betty (Cristina Marsillach) is elevated to the lead role of Lady Macbeth in an operatic performance of the famed Verdi production, it seems as if she's on top of the world.
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In a new episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, DeGeneres heads to Las Vegas to visit Lopez at her "All I Have" residency and volunteers to be the singer's understudy for the night.
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These major ensembles often engage Americans as assistant or associate conductors, where their role is that of the ever-ready understudy, but where they also might conduct pops concerts and a youth orchestra.
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In later years, during Gable's ascension as a shimmering celebrity following his role in Gone With the Wind, Rothko claimed that Gable had been his understudy, though I found no evidence of this.
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As an understudy in the landmark production of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" (1959), she had occasion to go on as Beneatha Younger, the forward-looking sister of the play's misguided protagonist.
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Twenty-four hours later, he decided to drop Kepa Arrizabalaga, the most expensive goalkeeper in the world, for the first time in the Premier League season, in favor of his veteran understudy, Willy Caballero.
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But although the absent prime minister took a bashing, and the polls will duly show whether that makes any long-term difference to her popularity, her understudy, Home Secretary Amber Rudd, performed extremely well.
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After spraining his ankle on May 7 in the Raptors' series against the Miami Heat, Valanciunas, the starting center, ceded the stage to his understudy, Bismack Biyombo, who played well in his extended absence.
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When Eisenhower's understudy, Richard M. Nixon, took office in 1969, he oversaw increases in Social Security and Medicare benefits along with the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and tighter regulation of the economy.
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He becomes a slave owner to a willing volunteer, an elderly man named Hominy Jenkins who once played understudy to Buckwheat on "The Little Rascals," and seeks to reinstate segregation in a local school.
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A gig as understudy in a production of "Time of the Cuckoo" led to an unexpected Lincoln Center debut when a cast member simply forgot to show up on the day after opening night.
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Plenty has been made of Klinghoffer's status as John Frusciante's understudy, trained up to play these songs, learning his falsetto ideosyncracies and picking up the lead guitar trills that define the band's high points.
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To the Editor: "The Final Rehearsal of a Broadway Understudy" (Arts pages, July 30) points out that the multiple reasons leading to the suicide of the actor Jeff Loeffelholz are difficult to determine conclusively.
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Elizabeth Dann and Laura Crook were also in their 20s when they were an actress and an understudy in a 1990 Gloucester production of "Strong-Man's Weak Child," which Mr. Horovitz wrote and directed.
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" Born in the South Bronx and raised in Florida, Ms. Olivo left college — the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music — before graduation in 1998, when she got a job as an understudy and swing in "Rent.
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Returning to the Sports Authority Field at Mile High where he had been understudy to NFL great Peyton Manning for four years, Osweiler threw for only 131 yards on 41 attempts with just 22 completions.
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After Titus ruins his future at a very complicated Cats — this lengthy Broadway joke may be the best of the season — he is freed up play the understudy for Rafiki in the Lion King musical.
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He jubilantly greeted the crowd, joked about F8 coinciding with the release of the The Fate of the Furious (also #F8), and cast Facebook executive David Marcus as the understudy to Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
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Just three years later, Kirk Cousins, the understudy drafted three rounds after Griffin, led the burgundy-and-gold back to the top of the NFC East while Griffin watched from the end of the bench.
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Now the new energy minister, who for many years served as a kind of understudy and royal family observer to the country's top oil leadership, must oversee the recovery of Saudi Arabia's most important industry.
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Matt Vogel, Sesame Street's Muppet Captain and Big Bird understudy, called to let Gordon know that the show's producers picked her to play Julia, the first-ever autistic Muppet and a new addition to the broadcast.
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In Leonard Fournette, the Tigers boast the most physically gifted running back since Adrian Peterson, and in Derrius Guice they have an understudy who would start for most other schools south of the Mason-Dixon line.
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Undrafted out of junior hockey, Jones, 26, played in the minor leagues for parts of four seasons before becoming Jonathan Quick's understudy with the Los Angeles Kings in 2013-14, when they won the Stanley Cup.
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At the first rehearsal a few days later, she immediately sat next to Mr. Banks, who had been cast as the understudy for four characters, and he said that he was pleasantly surprised to see her.
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Ms. Lindsay, who was both an understudy for the title role and a member of the orchestra's violin section, rose to her feet, instrument in hand, and delivered a performance that wowed audience members and colleagues.
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Dave Hearn once dislocated his shoulder; Nancy Zamit broke her foot; Mr. Sayer has had several concussions; and most recently, midway through a Broadway preview, Mr. Shields hurt his neck and was replaced by an understudy.
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Her three female co-stars are: Judith Ivey, who in recent years earned a Tony nomination for "The Heiress"; Angelina Fiordellisi, Cherry Lane Theater's producing artistic director; and Francesca Choy-Kee, an understudy in "Disgraced" on Broadway.
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People talks to the cast of the original Broadway hit that inspired the film: Barry Bostwick was Danny (Jeff Conaway, who later played Kenickie, was his understudy) and a then-unknown Travolta joined the cast as Doody.
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He got a job as an understudy in the original production of "West Side Story," which opened in 1957, and later played small parts in the musical and its 1960 revival before going on tour with it.
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In eight seasons in Philadelphia, he made just one All-Star team and never led the 76ers to more than the 43 wins they managed in his rookie season, when he was an understudy to Allen Iverson.
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" Lisa Henson, president of the Jim Henson Company and Jim's daughter, added that Whitmire was adamantly opposed to having an understudy for the role, but sometimes wouldn't appear on set for "B-level performances, such as ribbon-cutting.
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Keeping Sganarelle (Josh Wolonick) as the anchor while expanding the roles of Molière's young lovers, Valère (Patrick Brady) and Lucile (beautifully played at Sunday's matinee by an understudy, Ashley Gunsteens), it wants to tell us something about romance.
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A closeted gay man with a large inheritance and a penchant for Victorian dandyism, Roussel was finishing a piece called "La Doublure" — an epic poem focused on wordplay (doublure means both an understudy and the lining of a coat).
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And Emma Meesseman, who would be a starter for most teams but is the designated Delle Donne understudy with the Mystics, scored a game-high 21, including three 3s early in the fourth that largely put the game away.
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The Mexican-Kenyan actress was introduced to the play in 2009 when she won a coveted role as an understudy in the play at the prestigious Yale Repertory Theater while earning her master's degree at the Yale School of Drama.
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DES MOINES, IOWA — Ted Cruz was happy to play Donald Trump's understudy as the Trump-less Republican debate kicked off, mockingly quoting Trump's greatest hits against him and his fellow candidates before asking debate moderators to move on to the issues.
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While studying at Northwestern, she was cast as Audra McDonald's understudy in a pre-Broadway production of "Ragtime," in Toronto, and while there, Disney came calling, offering her a role in a pre-Broadway production of "The Lion King," in Minneapolis.
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Supervising his 13,000th boxing event on Saturday night, Arum's latest superstar client Vasyl Lomachenko wowed the world with an effortlessly dominant performance against Nicholas Walters—leading Arum to claim his Ukrainian understudy is a "modern master" of the boxing ring.
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After paying her dues as an understudy and a member of the chorus, she created the role of Polly Peachum in a concert version of Marc Blitzstein's acclaimed translation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's "The Threepenny Opera" in 21990.
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That forced Mr. Spicer's understudy, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, to concede that she and her staff were not aware of the full story at the press briefing on Wednesday, when she said the president had dismissed Mr. Comey after reading the recommendation.
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Back in uniform for the hosts was the steady defenseman Marc Staal, who had missed nine games because of a concussion, and Antti Raanta, Henrik Lundqvist's understudy, who had not played since he was injured in his last start, Jan.
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When they arrived at the Broadway revival of "Guys and Dolls" and it was announced that the role of Adelaide would be played not by Faith Prince but by an understudy, Eichner, age thirteen, threw a fit in the lobby.
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On Saturday morning, the show's producers said they would cancel the Saturday matinee performance, and that Mr. Karl's understudy, Andrew Call, would for the first time go on in the lead role, as the television weatherman Phil Connors, on Saturday night.
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After the war ended in 1945, Mr. Karen returned to New York and spent time at the Actors Studio, including as an understudy for various roles in Elia Kazan's 1947 Broadway production of "A Streetcar Named Desire," starring Marlon Brando and Jessica Tandy.
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While Garoppolo was Brady's understudy in New England, Mahomes, to many, is his obvious heir apparent and the outcome of Sunday's game will put one on the path to assuming a leading role when the 251-year-old finally decides it is time to retire.
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He has the type of offensive profile that can challenge Valanciunas, but the Lithuanian and his Austrian understudy Jakob Poeltl answered the call exceptionally well in the first meeting, and the option to downsize with Serge Ibaka at the five is a terrific failsafe.
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Late understudy Sam Querrey had rewarded captain Jim Courier's gamble by taking the tie into a decider in the fourth rubber, battling back from the brink of two sets down to beat home talisman Marin Cilic 6-7(2) 211-240(21) 230-237 26-613.
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You feel like an understudy subbing for a star in a rehearsal: It's not your show, so there's a certain appropriate caution, and yet whatever talent you have is going to be needed, so you had better let yourself go and do the best you can.
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In 1978, for instance, the last player taken in the draft, Lee Washburn, was injured and unable to travel, so Salata flew Kenney, who ended up having a respectable nine-year career as a quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs, to Newport Beach as Washburn's understudy.
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But for Democrats uttering the first whispers of impeachment talk in the halls of the Capitol, the president's unobtrusive and strait-laced understudy has emerged in recent days as a prime target — an heir apparent to an increasingly embattled president whom they are eager to tarnish.
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This combination of paint and sculpting is a blend of two styles he learned while studying art through his young adulthood, having studied painting from the age of 14 before honing a wood-making craft as an understudy with other artists throughout his late teens and early 20s.
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That explains her prodigious output: She has written or co-written more than 20 plays ("Omnium Gatherum," a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; "Mauritius"; "The Understudy"), scripted cop shows on television, turned out a couple of novels and created the NBC show "Smash," set in the world of Broadway.
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Before them sat six cast members from the musical: Michael Cerveris, who plays Bruce, the father; Judy Kuhn (Helen, the mother); Beth Malone (Alison, the main character); Emily Skeggs (Medium Alison, the character in college); Roberta Colindrez (Joan, the college girlfriend); and Kally Duling (the understudy for Medium Alison and Joan).
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The Monday night opening was also the first performance for Mr. Karl since his injury — the Saturday matinee had been canceled because of his knee damage; an understudy, Andrew Call, played the lead role Saturday night, and, in a bit of luck for the show, there were no performances scheduled Sunday.
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But last Labor Day weekend, when the Public Theater staged a joyous musical adaptation of "As You Like It" at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, it tapped just the right vocal understudy to avert disaster — Shaina Taub, the show's prodigiously talented composer-lyricist, who was already playing the character Jaques.
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One day early this year, I walked over to the Richard Rodgers with Seller and a casting director, Bernard Telsey, because they wanted to see the second act of a Wednesday matinee — in particular the performance of Sydney James Harcourt, the understudy to Leslie Odom Jr. in the role of Aaron Burr.
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A 28-year-old Texan who grew up on country music and gospel, Mr. Johnson made his Broadway debut in the 2009 revival of "Hair" as an understudy for Gavin Creel in the role of Claude, and has appeared in "On the Town, "Hands on a Hardbody" and "Catch Me If You Can.
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She studied singing in St. Louis, where she played Dorothy in the Municipal Opera Association's 1951 production of "The Wizard of Oz." In New York, she was spotted singing in a nightclub and hired to understudy for the lead female role, Laurey, in "Oklahoma!" toward the end of its original Broadway run.
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"If Bette Midler rips the train of her dress because the understudy chorus boy steps on it, the wardrobe supervisor can head to the garment center, buy the fabric, get it back to the theater, get that train recut and stitched before the show even begins," said Steven Epstein, a costume designer.
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Henrik Lundqvist would most likely get goaltending help from his understudy, Alexandar Georgiev; the defensemen Brady Skjei and Jacob Trouba, a summer acquisition, would provide a new look on the blue line; and the prized free agent Artemi Panarin promised to be the type of high-end scoring threat the Rangers have been lacking.
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His UFC debut didn't go exactly to plan—losing a back-and-forth unanimous decision to experienced British brawler Tom Watson—but, he earned consecutive first-round knockout victories over Dylan Andrews, Vitor Belfort's understudy Cezar Ferreira in a huge upset at the time, before finishing his run of KO wins over Dan Kelly.
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