“& Juliet” was nominated for nine Tony awards, including “Best Musical” and “Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical.” But little of that glory goes to understudy Rachel Webb.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.Actor Rachel Webb was selling Nikes at a store on the Upper East Side, about a year ago when her agent called to say she’d gotten not one, but two roles in a new, hit musical from the West End, called “& Juliet.”
Once, when the show was running in Toronto, the lead was too sick to finish the performance. Webb was backstage when the stage manager announced that she'd be taking over as Juliet mid-show. The audience groaned. Chances are, you already know the songs in “& Juliet” — they are some of the greatest hits of the '90s and the aughts, from Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson and the Backstreet Boys — written by Swedish superstar producer and songwriter Max Martin. The dancing is inspired by hip-hop, with a whiff of TikTok, and it’s all brought to roaring life by a young and diverse cast.practically apologizing for what he was about to do, which was to endorse a jukebox musical: “I liked it.
“What I had to do, essentially, was go home and do my own homework,” Webb said. She recorded herself playing the lead on her iPhone’s voice memos, which she would then study on her own.
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