Last month, “06880” profiled Clay Singer. The 2013 Staples High School graduate was getting ready to play Peter in the Westport Country Playhouse production of “Romeo and Juliet.”
His background — including starring roles in Staples Players, and as a Carnegie Mellon musical theater major — sure paid off.
Last Sunday at 1 p.m. — while driving from New York for his 3 p.m. matinee — Clay learned he’d have to step in for an actor who was ill.
In addition to his own role, he’d play Prince Escalus.
Clay got a quick costume fitting, learned all his lines and blocking with his scene partners, and went on stage.
Clay Singer and his new costume.
He’d already planned to arrive at the Playhouse early — to watch football games on the green room TV.
Instead, he asked his family to record them.
The show, after all, must go on.
And it has, with Clay playing his — and Prince Escalus’ — roles, ever since.
