Understudies: Hardest Workers on Broadway?
Stuff You Should Know
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 79.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Being an understudy is far more challenging than simply learning the lines of a lead actor in case of emergency. Learn all about these unsung stage heroes today.
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| 0:00.0 | There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of. |
| 0:05.7 | That's why we launched The Big Take. |
| 0:08.3 | It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit |
| 0:14.0 | to give you some space to think. |
| 0:16.4 | I'm Wes Kosova. |
| 0:17.7 | Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters. |
| 0:23.6 | Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. |
| 0:31.5 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 0:41.1 | Hey, hey, and welcome to what the podcast, hey, let's go. |
| 0:46.8 | I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's here and this is the podcast. |
| 0:50.8 | Ta-da. |
| 0:52.8 | What is that all about? |
| 0:54.5 | That was my impression of Broadway. |
| 0:56.4 | Oh, I thought that was your understudy, Matt Frederick. |
| 0:59.7 | I could see Matt Frederick doing the same thing. |
| 1:03.8 | I didn't know he was my understudy, is that right? |
| 1:05.8 | Is he my successor? |
| 1:06.8 | No, of course not. |
| 1:07.8 | There was no successor. |
| 1:08.8 | Ben Bowling was mine on April Fool's Day. |
| 1:11.2 | Yeah, that was a good one. |
| 1:13.3 | But we know that wouldn't fly. |
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