How To Use Understudy In A Sentence

  • Brian said: ‘It puts her in a good place for understudying the lead roles and if things work out well she could find herself going on for a principal before too long.’
  • One of the leads and her understudy were hurt when their trailer flipped.
  • Apparently their mate, who was understudying the lead, had gone on that night so they were there to support him.
  • Amy played Christine in the Millennium tour of Phantom, when she was understudying the role.
  • They don't have an understudy to take that role right now.
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  • Now, he's understudying a Tony-nominated star, Alfred Molina, in "Red," a play about abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko. Waiting In The Wings With Broadway's Understudies
  • It's a bit like the old fairy tale of an understudy in the theatre getting their chance when the real lead falls ill and given the opportunity commands the stage.
  • I hadden arranged an understudy for that role so I hadda do it wiff only 6 hrs to get off book an teach Asst Stage manager how to run tings. Why no one comes - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • This was the classic cliché - understudy steps in at the last moment and makes good.
  • After a 20-minute interval he was replaced by his understudy. The Sun
  • She was called back for a second, then a third audition before being cast as an understudy to the lead.
  • Shortly after making the move, she was hired as an understudy for the company.
  • She is understudying Hu Die, a famous star.
  • I was his understudy for a few years and I tried to learn as much as I could from him.
  • He was an understudy to Charlie Chaplin on a tour of the USA.
  • Beginning as a swing and understudy in 1996, the teenager eventually scored a major role and performed the lead as an understudy about ten times.
  • There are several Juliets, at least two Romeos, and among the 32 dancers everyone seems to understudy everybody else.
  • When rehearsals began, she was so impressed with him that she made him understudy for Jason's leading role.
  • The role is nebulous," and includes understudying for the conductor, says Perry So, assistant conductor with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. So You Want to Be a …?
  • Understudy can be downloaded and demoed free for 30 days, during which time technical support via e-mail is also free.
  • What is an understudy or replacement to do when he takes over a role vacated by a star?
  • She was called back for a second, then a third audition before being cast as an understudy to the lead.
  • Their Siegfried injured his leg, so his understudy lip-synced the role while the hurt tenor sang from a chair.
  • After understudying Ethel Merman on Broadway and being part of Martha Graham's dance company, Betty got famous for doing comical specialty songs, starting with "South America, Take It Away" from her huge Broadway hit, "Call Me Mister" that opened 65 years ago. Danny Miller: Remembering Betty Garrett
  • Katy Perry, on the other hand, with the ice-blue hair and matching dress looks like she's auditioning to be the understudy for Storm in the next X-Men movie. Grammy awards 2012 – live coverage
  • He will understudy his successor who has an important role behind the scenes on the tour.
  • The understudy has had laryngitis for the past week.
  • The star actor was ill, so his understudy had to alternate for him.
  • The spritely 27-year-old was swept in as a last-minute understudy for the part when Clairemarie Osta came down with double tendinitis.
  • In her place was her understudy, Miss Lisa Fennell, a young dancer usually seen in the chorus.
  • We should've just gotten an understudy for her role!
  • The Vice - President acts as understudy to the President.
  • Dracula - Frank Langella (altho I saw Raul Julia on Broadway, ironically understudying Langella that night). Davy Crockett, the Green Hornet, the Phantom and other heroes of my youth who werent really heroes of my youth
  • The understudy was substituted when the leading actor fell ill.
  • He is standing to the side once again on this day, an understudy in this tumultuous theatre.
  • The languid one commented upon the female fetich, the skirt, and condemned "bloomers," whereupon Glory declared that they were just charming, and being challenged (by a gentleman) for her reasons she said, "Because when a girl's got them on she feels as if she's an understudy for a man, and may even have a chance of playing the part itself in another and a better world. The Christian A Story
  • Former Joffrey dancer Meg Paul, who has been with the production from its workshop days as both a swing and an understudy, is now also a dance captain.
  • Processional races and the abject lack of competition for the 36 - year - old Schumacher and his reluctant understudy Rubens Barrichello sparked a winter of bitter in-fighting .
  • You do know he was already getting cast understudying Broadway tours, right? Adam Lambert wants to act? What should he do? | EW.com
  • After a 20-minute interval he was replaced by his understudy. The Sun
  • His understudy had to go on for Act II.
  • After the auditions, she told me that she wanted me to understudy all of the parts, since I knew them already, just in case.
  • When I first joined, after I'd been in art school, I was understudying and they thought I was posh because I didn't happen to have a broad Glasgow accent.
  • Her canniest naysaying had to have occurred when she was the understudy for the role of Deena Jones in the original Broadway production of "Dreamgirls" and one day presented herself to its formidable director, Michael Bennett, to quit. Phylicia Rashad's star trajectory to Arena Stage's 'every tongue confess'
  • What is an understudy or replacement to do when he takes over a role vacated by a star?
  • He was assigned the role of Arturo, but also rehearsed as the cover opera's equivalent of an understudy for the larger role of Edgardo—and for the final performance of the run, conductor James Levine asked him to perform it. A Philadelphia Son Storms the Met
  • MR: Now, you both were child prodigies as performers--Susan, you were understudying on Broadway at age six, and Derek you were turning heads in the music industry at age nine. Mike Ragogna: Keb' Mo's "...Enchilada," Plus Chats with Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks, Alex Miller, Flogging Molly's Dave King, and Lindi Ortega
  • He was phenomenal, because I played this instrument called the baritone horn and he was told he had to understudy me in five days. CNN Transcript Jun 17, 2008
  • She worked as an understudy to Elaine Page.
  • She is understudying Hu Die, a famous star.
  • I was rehearsing for a small part in Chicago, though my agent felt a understudy role in Alabama was more likely.
  • Being an understudy is rather like being a reserve goalkeeper. Times, Sunday Times
  • She is understudying Hu Die, a famous star.

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