Somebody else is going to be listed in the program for a role you have been working on for many weeks. Somebody else is going to sing the songs and say the words you have memorized. Somebody else is going to put on that costume that fits you just a little bit better. Somebody else is going to take that bow.
Welcome to the daily struggle that is being an understudy.
Read Artistic Director Krystof Kage’s June 19, 2015 blog entry at the Tallahassee Democrat Online Community blog here: Just in Case – The Struggle of Understudies