understudy

Gardner’s wife, Emily Larger, is in the ensemble and serves as assistant dance captain, as well as an understudy for Mrs. Potts and Madame de l’Amour.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

Vicario, meanwhile, lost his place in the Spurs side under manager Roberto de Zerbi, who promoted understudy Antonin Kinsky to the role last season.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

That would leave Estevao Willian, Pedro Neto and new signing Geovany Quenda competing for places on the right and Jamie Gittens as his understudy.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

When Hiller did, general manager Ken Holland promoted his understudy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026

Mrs. Reynolds, the drama coach who was director of the play, said, "Ginger will be Annie's Sandy, and Arnold will be Ginger's understudy."

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

Gardner makes his job look easy, but he says his understudies accused him of downplaying just how challenging it can be.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

England have already lost Will Stuart and Asher Opoku-Fordjour for the Six Nations leaving Vilikesa 'Billy' Sela and Trevor Davison, who have three caps between them, as understudies to Joe Heyes at tight-head.

From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2026

Viewers watch as Jeanine intellectualizes each character’s motivations and inner thoughts, dictating them to the performers onstage and their understudies.

From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2025

His understudies, Jake Oettinger and Jeremy Swayman, are arguably better than any other goalie in the tournament.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2025

This done, principals and understudies, casting envious glances at one another, form one long column of route and set out for home, in charge of the subalterns.

From The First Hundred Thousand by Ian Hay

She said it is too new and understudied.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

But the particulars of Arthur Liu’s pathway—single father by choice via surrogacy—have been largely understudied and, despite those high-profile examples, receive little public attention.

From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2026

"The role of astrocytes in central nervous system healing is remarkably understudied," said David Underhill, PhD, chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 13, 2026

He recently analysed just how understudied most other bacteria have been relative to E. coli.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025

At first she was given only a small part in "The Lion Tamer," and at the same time understudied Lulu Glaser in both "The Lion Tamer" and "The Merry Monarch."

From Famous Prima Donnas by Lewis Clinton Strang

Although Parker didn’t land the role of Lola when he auditioned for the Toby’s production, the experience of understudying the part and playing one of Lola’s backing dancers left a lasting impact.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2023

Now graduated, Shavit-Lonstein works two day jobs while “swinging” — understudying multiple roles — in “Winnie the Pooh” at StoryBook Theater in Kirkland.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2022

It was there where Poitier was given the role of understudying Harry Belafonte in "Days of our Youth."

From Fox News ● Jan. 7, 2022

Shortly after graduating from Pace University’s performing arts program in 2017, Reid joined “Hamilton” on Broadway, playing the ensemble role of Man Six and later understudying multiple major roles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2021

She was understudying Martha, too, when anyone was sick in the town, and needed nursing or a helping hand.

From The Black Opal by Katharine Susannah Prichard