At This Performance

What do F. Murray Abraham, Bea Arthur, Armand Assante, Roger Bart, Norbert Leo Butz, Carol Channing, Stockard Channing, Victoria Clark, Alan Cumming, Blythe Danner, Danny DeVito, Olympia Dukakis, Christine Ebersole, Ralph Fiennes, Calista Flockhart, Sutton Foster, Morgan Freeman, James Gandolfini, Jennifer Garner, Brad Garrett, Richard Gere, Kelsey Grammer, Woody Harrelson, Heather Headley, Dustin Hoffman, Anjelica Huston, Judy Kaye, Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline, LaChanze, Dick Latessa, Beth Leavel, Shirley MacLaine, Walter Matthau, Bette Midler, Donna Murphy, Bebe Neuwirth, Paul Newman, Jack Palance, Sarah Jessica Parker, Faith Prince, Anthony Quinn, Phylicia Rashad, Ann Reinking, Chita Rivera, Doris Roberts, Anika Noni Rose, Wesley Snipes, Kevin Spacey, Elaine Stritch, Tommy Tune, Ben Vereen, Sigourney Weaver, Lillias White, Bruce Willis, Alfre Woodard, Joanne Woodward and Karen Ziemba have in common?

It is a little known fact that they are among a long, distinguished list of performers who earlier in their careers served as Broadway Standbys or Understudies.

At This Performance…™, a critically acclaimed celebration of Broadway and Off-Broadway Standbys and Understudies, gives some of New York’s finest musical performers their chance in the spotlight. No longer “waiting in the wings”, they take their well deserved place Center Stage.

Since the series debut in October 2003, nearly 400 performers have appeared in previous editions of At This Performance…™, including Broadway star and co-star of CBS' "CSI Los Angeles," Barrett Foa, "Jersey Boys"' Michael Longoria,Brandi Chavonne Massey (Understudy for the role of Elphaba in the Broadway production of Wicked)Kenita R. Miller (Understudy for the role of Clio/Kira in the Broadway production of Xanadu),Linda Mugleston (Understudy for the roles of Elizabeth and Frau Blucher in the Broadway production of Young Frankenstein), (Understudy for the roles of Ruth Sherwood and Mrs. Wade in the Broadway revival of Wonderful Town) and countless others.

Participating performers have “covered” in a total of 225 Broadway and Off-Broadway productions or revivals, including such esteem productions as: Aida; All Shook Up; Altar Boyz; Annie Get Your Gun; Assassins; Avenue Q; Baby; Beauty and the Beast; Blood Brothers; The Boy From Oz; Cabaret; Camelot; A Catered Affair; Cats; Chicago; A Chorus Line; The Color Purple; Company; Contact; Crazy For You; Curtains; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas!-The Musical; Dreamgirls; The Drowsy Chaperone; Fiddler on the Roof; La Cage aux Folles; Legally Blonde; The Light in the Piazza; The Lion King; The Little Mermaid; Little Shop of Horrors; Little Women; Mame; Mamma Mia!; Mary Poppins; Monty Python’s Spamalot; Next to Normal; Nine; Oklahoma!; On the Town; The Pajama Game;The Phantom of the Opera; The Producers; Ragtime; Rent; Rocky Horror Show; Saturday Night Fever; The Scarlet Pimpernel; South Pacific, Spring Awakening; Sunday in the Park with George, Sunset Boulevard; Sweeney Todd; Sweet Charity; They’re Playing Our Song; Thoroughly Modern Millie; The Times They Are A-Changin’; Titanic; [title of show]; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Victor/ Victoria; Wicked; The Will Rogers’ Follies; Wonderful Town; Xanadu; Young Frankenstein, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown and many others throughout the years.

Hosted by New York Casting Director and Producing Artistic Director Stephen DeAngelis, the performers display their great talents and versatility, share backstage behind-the-scenes anecdotes about their experiences and conduct an enlightening and entertaining question and answer session with the audience.

Since last season alone, over forty former participants are currently playing principal roles on Broadway. This series has become a "can't miss event" for New York theatrical audiences and entertainment industry insiders. Now for the first time, exclusively through rj productions, national audiences will enjoy that rare opportunity to see the Broadway stars of tomorrow... today. Venues usually rebook it with a different group of performers as audiences continually tell their friends how enjoyable the evening is.