Show Business: No More Waiting in the Wings

For one night, understudies step into the spotlight

Usually they have to wait for someone to break an ankle or catch the flu before they are allowed to sing those songs in public. But for one night last week at Manhattan's Town Hall, they held center stage, belting out lyrics for which they are not at all famous. A wistful young woman named Tracy Shayne gave her plaintive interpretation of What I Did for Love from A Chorus Line; Rhonda Coullet, helped by a regular cast member, Cass Morgan, did a comic number from Pump...

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