understudy

How To Use understudy In A Sentence

• His understudy had to go on for Act II.
• 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.