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#1PRIMA FACIE Free Understudy Performance 5/26
Posted: 5/23/23 at 2:26pm
https://twitter.com/estreetprods/status/1661072929583398914
Pretty cool of them to do this. Tix are free. Show is Friday, 5/26 at 2pm.
#2PRIMA FACIE Free Understudy Performance 5/26
Posted: 5/23/23 at 2:30pm
Very interesting. Any ideas of why this is happening?
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#3PRIMA FACIE Free Understudy Performance 5/26
Posted: 5/23/23 at 2:34pm
Love this idea! I saw Comer over the weekend, it's a meaty and powerful role in a terrific play.
#4PRIMA FACIE Free Understudy Performance 5/26
Posted: 5/23/23 at 2:52pm
binau said: "Very interesting. Any ideas of why this is happening?"
Word of mouth and gives the understudy more experience are my guesses.
I kind of wish other productions did this but I understand you still have to pay actors, backstage, front of house staff etc.
A lot of colleges/universities are done with the semester by then so lots of folks with free time to go there on Friday afternoon.
#5PRIMA FACIE Free Understudy Performance 5/26
Posted: 5/23/23 at 2:58pm
This is cool. I like this idea
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#6PRIMA FACIE Free Understudy Performance 5/26
Posted: 5/23/23 at 4:42pm
I really like this idea and I hope it catches on--if not for free performances but ones with sharply reduced prices.
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#7PRIMA FACIE Free Understudy Performance 5/26
Posted: 5/23/23 at 8:57pm
I am betting it’s in Dani Arlington’s contract that she gets at least one performance during the run. She was the standby on the West End too, and has kids in London (according to her Twitter bio), and I’m sure is making a lot of sacrifices to be in NYC. It would be difficult - and more work - to find and prepare a new standby for such a uniquely demanding role, so this was a (well-deserved) deal sweetener I’m sure. I agree this sort of thing should happen more often, especially with small cast non-musicals that have a low weekly “nut.”
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#8PRIMA FACIE Free Understudy Performance 5/26
Posted: 5/23/23 at 11:23pm
When we saw Max Clayton in THE MUSIC MAN, prices were sharply reduced and people leaving the theater were heard saying, "Hugh Who?"
Having occasional understudy performances could be something to look forward to.
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#9PRIMA FACIE Free Understudy Performance 5/26
Posted: 5/24/23 at 8:13pm
slumdogdelaware said: "https://twitter.com/estreetprods/status/1661072929583398914 trap the cat
Pretty cool of them to do this. Tix are free. Show is Friday, 5/26 at 2pm."
Tomorrow is this Show and I'm really looking forward to it.
#10PRIMA FACIE Free Understudy Performance 5/26
Posted: 5/24/23 at 11:43pm
I’m sure the woman needs a full run every now and again to keep the show in her muscle memory and to perform the lines. This doesn’t seem the type of show you can easily just jump into after string around for weeks.
I imagine they would cancel the show if Comer is out. I can’t see many sticking around for a one woman show when the star is out. Refund alone would prob force cancellation.
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#11PRIMA FACIE Free Understudy Performance 5/26
Posted: 5/25/23 at 12:04am
Bettyboy72 said: "I’m sure the woman needs a full run every now and again to keep the show in her muscle memory and to perform the lines. This doesn’t seem the type of show you can easily just jump into after string around for weeks.
I imagine they would cancel the show if Comer is out. I can’t see many sticking around for a one woman show when the star is out. Refund alone would prob force
They run the show with understudies periodically. This may actually be one of those run-thrus
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#12PRIMA FACIE Free Understudy Performance 5/26
Posted: 5/25/23 at 2:46pm
Has anybody heard back yet about tickets?
#13PRIMA FACIE Free Understudy Performance 5/26
Posted: 5/25/23 at 4:15pm
Still nothing
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#14PRIMA FACIE Free Understudy Performance 5/26
Posted: 5/25/23 at 4:49pm
Odd that nobody has heard anything back yet. I wonder if before the show tomorrow if tickets can be obtained directly at the box office?
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#15PRIMA FACIE Free Understudy Performance 5/26
Posted: 5/25/23 at 5:10pm
The winners have been notified.
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#16PRIMA FACIE Free Understudy Performance 5/26
Posted: 5/25/23 at 6:12pm
Got the email saying I didn’t get a ticket:
On behalf of Empire Street Productions, we are very sad to say that you haven’t been successful in getting a ticket to attend the free performance of PRIMA FACIE starring Dani Arlington in the role of “Tessa Ensler”. The demand was overwhelming and the interest far exceeded the capacity of the house.
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#17PRIMA FACIE Free Understudy Performance 5/26
Posted: 5/25/23 at 6:14pm
RunnyBabbit said: "Got the email saying I didn’t get a ticket:
On behalf of Empire Street Productions, we are very sad to say that you haven’t been successful in getting a ticket to attend the free performance of PRIMA FACIE starring Dani Arlington in the role of “Tessa Ensler”. The demand was overwhelming and the interest far exceeded the capacity of the house.
"
For what it's worth, I won but I won't be able to go. There could be a cancellation line.
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#18PRIMA FACIE Free Understudy Performance 5/26
Posted: 5/25/23 at 6:25pm
Not sure how they are doing the ticket distribution for this-if they're issuing e-tickets or working off of a list with hard tickets, and if it was 1 ticket or 2, but I lost the random draw, and am available. Feel free and message me if you have a spare ticket for the understudy run tomorrow.
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#19PRIMA FACIE Free Understudy Performance 5/26
Posted: 5/25/23 at 6:25pm
This is such a great idea.
Who is the producer?
#20PRIMA FACIE Free Understudy Performance 5/26
Posted: 5/25/23 at 6:26pm
steve.sometime said: "For what it's worth, I won but I won't be able to go. There could be a cancellation line."
I'm guessing there must be, I'm sure there are lots of people who won and can't make it. I'll be in the neighborhood tomorrow for the Ham4Ham performance. It seems worth at least going over before and asking.
#21PRIMA FACIE Free Understudy Performance 5/26
Posted: 5/25/23 at 6:42pm
JSquared2 said: "The winners have been notified.
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I guess I lost, but now I'm debating walking up to the box office and seeing what they might have in terms of cancellations around noon tomorrow.
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
#22PRIMA FACIE Free Understudy Performance 5/26
Posted: 5/25/23 at 8:49pm
Jakeevan942 said: "Not sure how they are doing the ticket distribution for this-if they're issuing e-tickets or working off of a list with hard tickets, and if it was 1 ticket or 2, but I lost the random draw, and am available. Feel free and message me if you have a spare ticket for the understudy run tomorrow."
I was fortunate enough to win one ticket for the performance tomorrow; we weren't given an option for 2 tickets. Our instructions are to pick up our tickets at the box office.
#23PRIMA FACIE Free Understudy Performance 5/26
Posted: 5/25/23 at 9:37pm
I’ll be there tomorrow! Definitely find it odd we weren’t given the option to choose 1 or 2 tickets (though I imagine it’s easier to book up the theater with just single seats), or even confirm we still wanted the seats. Especially since they notified winners with less than 24 hours notice.
Oddly announced and distributed, but nonetheless a great offer for a free ticket to a show I would otherwise have missed.
#24PRIMA FACIE Free Understudy Performance 5/26
Posted: 5/25/23 at 10:28pm
It’s probably easier to get people into the theatre with single seats. It’s probably best to only offer single seats. People are a PITA, especially with freebies. You already see people who entered saying they can’t go. If you offered pairs people would be even more problematic. No good deed goes unpunished.
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