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** Bears mentioning here that it happens quite regularly in plays where the understudy steps in due to illness, vacation, etc. of the main performer.
** One very notable case is [[Agatha Christie]]'s play ''[[The Mousetrap]]'' which has been running continuously for literally decades leading to actors who have played younger characters in the show taking over the roles of older characters as they've become too old to play their younger characters.
** [[Shakespeare|Shakespearean]] actors have been known to do this as well
** Many cast recordings of musicals have used different singers, with the regular actor being unavailable due to contractual reasons (e.g. Irra Pettina replaced with Kitty Carlisle on ''Song of Norway''), illness (Howard da Silva replaced with Rex Everhart on ''[[1776 (musical)|1776]]''), or having too small a singing part to bother (in which case another cast member usually would fill in). One unusual case is the original cast recording of ''[[Company]]'' being reissued on LP with Larry Kert (who replaced Dean Jones shortly after the Broadway opening) overdubbing all of Dean Jones's vocals.
** Aversion: While much of the Broadway cast of ''[[Phantom of the Opera]]'' has changed greatly since its original 1986 run, the actor playing Firmin has remained the same - that's TWENTY-THREE YEARS.
*** Although the long run at Toronto's Pantages Theatre did change leads, notably featuring KISS's Paul Stanley, who returned for the final two weeks of performances due to patron demand.
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