Is Cristin Milioti back in ONCE tonight?

[Lucy Harbin]

Heard she's been out since Thursday.

[Lucy Harbin]

Bumping to the top in case anyone was at the show tonight and knows. I hate to get up at the crack of dawn for the Rush line if she's still out sick.

[BwayTday]

Apparently she was on last night but is not on right now. Andrea is on today. I'm guessing Cristin is sick.

[dreaming]

Maybe she will do the evening today. Sometimes, when actors come back into a role, they don't do two show days.

[drewmangroup]

Usually understudies are fine, it's just disappointing when there is a particular performer you want to see. I saw Once on Saturday and thought the understudy was terrible. Her Czech accent was pronounced to the point of cartoonishness. So disappointing...

[willep]

I remember when I went to see Spamalot, it was the day of the Tonys and Sara Ramirez was out sick, saw her understudy and my whole group thought she was awful. It was a bummer. But I have also seen great understudies, as I would generally expect them to be.

Here's hoping Cristin gets better soon! (Meaning no disrespect to her understudy...just hoping that Cristin gets feeling better...)

[FindingNamo]

Shows not to see:

Day of/after Tonys
Day after opening night, aka, The Hangover Show

[willep]

Haha good to know! I was a newbie to Broadway at the time. It was my first show.

[BwayTday]

I think terrible is an awful way to describe her performance. I am not an expert on Czech accents, so all I can say is nothing sounded out of order to me. I wanted to see Cristin very very much, but I really tried to not let my disappointment sway my view of Andrea. She acting wise was very good, and grew from the the Sunday to Wednesday performance. I would really like to hear more criticism other than about her accent. I am general curious as to why you don't think she was even "good".

[CockeyedOptimist2]

Cristin was back on tonight and gave an excellent performance. Overall, I liked the show much better tonight than the first time I saw it. Andrea Goss was on as Reza.

Edited to fix Andrea's name- didn't read my Playbill slip well enough. Apologies.

[ACL2006]

^^Andrea Goss!!

The cast is also performing on The Today Show this Friday in the 10am hour. I wonder if Milioti will miss tonight or tomorrow night to be able to perform on The Today Show??

[willep]

Andrea sure seems to be earning her paycheck this week :-P

[willep]

Sounds like Steve Kazee will be out of the show for the next few days. He just tweeted that he is back home in Kentucky to be at his mother's side. I believe in the BCEFA thread someone said that he mentioned her fighting breast cancer when he made the BCEFA speech the other day.

Looks like maybe we will get to see his understudy in the Today Show performance tomorrow, I assume.

[dramamama611]

How terrible to try to balance such joy in one's life (a great new b'way show) with such pain. Hoping for the best for them.

[bjh2114]

Steve performed with the rest of the cast on Today this morning. Hopefully that's a good sign?

[willep]

Interesting. One o'clock this morning he tweeted that he was in Kentucky to be with his mother (trying to figure out how to link to a specific tweet...I always forget how...). Perhaps the Today Show segment was pre-taped?

Apparently Ben Hope went on as Guy last night.

[Harpz2006]

His mom just entered hospice care in Kentucky... he is already back?

[dramamama611]

I'm going to guess it was not live. The edit between the short interview and the performance didn't seem natural.


(Side note: while KLG spoke highly of the show and all -- she's an idiot.)

[willep]

Just watched the clip, and I agree, that edit was very unnatural. I would wager that it was pre-taped.

[bjh2114]

Well Hoda and Kathy Lee were wearing the same clothes as in the rest of the segment, so unless they knew what they would be wearing today specifically, I don't see how it could have been pre-taped.

[willep]

It's not unheard of. It happens on shows every now and then. Generally when shows like that do a pre-taped segment, yes, they will change wardrobe and then have to wear that same wardrobe again. I've seen it happen at a taping of Jimmy Fallon.

[dramamama611]

The costume folks know what they will be wearing ahead of time --its not like they just show up dressed for the day -- its all wardrobe and provided for them.

I would HOPE that with the knowledge that Kazee wanted to visit his dying mum (based on the reference to hospice), they would have been happy to accomodate filming in advance.

[Smaxie]

It was indeed pretaped.

[broadwaydevil]

I can't find it online anywhere, I forgot to DVR it. What did they perform/how was it?

[willep]

They did the same thing they performed on David Letterman, in a slightly less cramped space with less bizarre camera angles.
Once Today Show

[broadwaydevil]

Thank you! Definitely looked/sounded much better than it did on Letterman.