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A backup waits for the star to fall in 'The Understudy
"Movie stars are like a disease," says Harry, the unknown and bitter understudy for a Kafka drama on Broadway with two movie stars. "Maybe more like pathology, or ongoing cultural disaster."
And so goes the timely and bitter joke in "The Understudy," Theresa Rebeck's slight but breezy and knowing backstage comedy that is cast, yes, with two TV stars. To be fair, the understudy is played with...
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