Video: A Declassified Standby Survival Guide with REDWOOD's Jessica Phillips

How do Broadway understudies survive? The gig isn't easy! Understudies and swings are some of the hardest working performers on Broadway (and beyond), having to be ready to go on at a moment's notice, often for multiple tracks. Think you could swing it? In this special episode, we're checking in with Jessica Phillips, who is the standby for 'Jesse' in Redwood, usually played by Idina Menzel. What makes a standby diff…

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