Seinfeld
The Understudy
Season 6, Episode 24 · Aired 1995-05-18
Synopsis
Jerry begins to date a girl who is an understudy for Bette Midler in her new Broadway musical, Rochelle, Rochelle. Jerry, George and Kramer all play on the Improv softball team and happen to be playing against the cast and crew of Rochelle, Rochelle. Kramer fawns over Bette and Jerry's girlfriend cries about her frankfurter falling on the ground but not about her grandmother dying.
In the series
This episode is part of Seinfeld (1989–1998) on NBC.
A show about nothing that became everything — cruelty as comic precision.
Key cast
- Jerry Seinfeld as Jerry Seinfeld
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine Benes
- Michael Richards as Cosmo Kramer
- Jason Alexander as George Costanza