No matter how good the understudy, the withdrawal of a leading name is almost inevitably bad news for a stage productionNormally the question star-seeking theatregoers ask is "Who's in it?" But recent events in the London West End have raised the related phenomenon of "They're not in it?!" " when the absence of an advertised actor leads to the involvement of an understudy.With the 87-year-old Robert Hardy forced by i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:39PM on March 1, 2013