THE UNDERSTUDY
“Second best can be a bitch”

By Theresa Rebeck
Directed By Amie Bentall
Season – August 6^th to August 9^th, 8pm
Matinee – August 9^th, 2pm

Charged with running the understudy rehearsal for the Broadway premiere of Kafka's undiscovered masterpiece, Roxanne has one afternoon to get it right - there’s just one problem - nothing goes right.

Roxanne finds her professional and personal life colliding when Harry, a journeyman actor and her ex-fiancé, is cast as the understudy to Jake, a mid-tier action star yearning for legitimacy. As Harry and Jake find their common ground, Roxanne tries to navigate the rehearsal with a stoned lightboard operator, an omnipresent intercom system, the producers threatening to shutter the show and her own careening feelings about both actors and her past.

Will the show go on? THE UNDERSTUDY is a dazzling and humanistic look at people trying to do what they love in the face of obstacles that mount until all anyone can do is dance.

“Bountiful laughs from a sumptuous display of strained nerves (The Understudy is) a scattershot backstage comedy by Theresa Rebeck”  - The New York Times

 

The Understudy is produced by The Studio at HLT - facebook.com/thestudiohlt
Running Time:  90 minutes (no interval)
Allocated Seating

 

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