THE UNDERSTUDY - Act One
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4.0 • 440 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
What happens when you wish you were someone else… and the universe says bet?
Natalie Primavera has a million followers, perfect technique, and the lead role in every show.
Ava Ross has a cracked phone, a boyfriend who sings like naked Miley Cyrus, and a work-study job sweeping up after other dancers.
One ancient snow globe. Two desperate wishes. And suddenly they wake up in each other’s bodies.
There’s just one problem: Natalie’s body is now in a hospital bed with a shattered hip. And Ava’s body? It’s about to dance the Sugar Plum Fairy… with ankles like wet spaghetti.
What follows is the funniest, most chaotic Nutcracker rehearsal season in history... zombie cats, possessed dolls, a Romanian ballet master who might actually be a warlock, his terrifying nine-year-old son, and a love triangle nobody ordered.
But underneath the chaos is something real: two girls discovering that the lives they envied aren’t what they seemed.
It’s Freaky Friday meets Center Stage, and it hits.
THE UNDERSTUDY: ACT ONE
Written by award-winning writer Jenna St. John.
Starring:
Kensington Tallman as Natalie Primavera
Logan Laurel as Ava Ross
Konstantin Lavysh as Mr. Constantine
Carson Bolde as Grayson Garcia
Sasha Knight as Trevor
Rita Dos Santos as Kenzie
Samantha A. Smith as Jasmine Kearn
Eva Binder as Zoe Dennings
Adele Abinante as Bean Ross
Avery Clyde as Mrs. Primavera
Katherine Brunk as Ms. Ross
Brandon Potter as Mr. Primavera
Sarah Elmaleh as Miss Lana
Miki Yamashita as Miss Miyako
Paula Tiso as Narrator
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| 0:00.0 | One, two, three. |
| 0:01.0 | Table Read, The Understudy! |
| 0:03.0 | The Understudy! |
| 0:04.0 | Oh, that was by bad. |
| 0:06.0 | No podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | And that's where we embraced the information. |
| 0:09.0 | I totally screwed that out. |
| 0:12.0 | So sorry. |
| 0:13.0 | All right, ready. |
| 0:14.0 | One, two, three. |
| 0:15.0 | Table Read, the Undersudy. |
| 0:18.0 | Excellent. |
| 0:19.0 | Beautiful. |
| 0:20.0 | That's rock. The Understudy, written by! Excellent. Beautiful. That's rock. |
| 0:24.2 | The Understudy, written by Jenna St. John. |
| 0:25.9 | Fade in. |
| 0:29.7 | Exterior 15th Century Town Square, night. |
| 0:37.1 | A glowing green, ancient snow globe sits alone in the dark, and inside are two dancer figurines. A hand snatches the globe. |
| 0:39.3 | It belongs to Mr. Constantine, 30s, |
| 0:43.3 | as an army of skeletons with glowing green eyes approach him. |
| 0:47.3 | Reveal Town Square. |
| 0:49.3 | Skeletons lunge out from doors and darkness. |
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