By Jennifer R Jones | Posted on February 17, 2014 6:33 PM
The Life Of An Understudy Featured In New Documentary Film The Standbys Heads To Movie Theatres Starting February 21st Featuring Three Broadway Actors.
"The Standbys" New Documentary Heads To Theatres
The life of an understudy is unknown to most people, but soon that will change with the new documentary, The Standbys. The film about Broadway understudies will be released in movie theaters starting February 21. The Standbys follows three Broadway actors: Ben Crawford (standby in Shrek the Musical and Big Fish); Merwin Foard (standby for Gomez in The Addams Family); and Alena Watters (standby for Anita in the West Side Story revival).
In addition to following those three understudies "through their ups and downs, struggles and triumphs, onstage performances and private lives," The Standbys also includes interviews with a number of Broadway luminaries, such as David Hyde Pierce, Zachary Quinto, Bebe Neuwirth, Sutton Foster, Brian d'Arcy James, Katie Finneran, and Cheyenne Jackson. To learn more, visit www.TheStandbys.com.
