Vanishing Actors

The highly anticipated revival of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?" began preview performances last week. Although the show is generating a lot of buzz because of its hot young cast of stars, the production has already encountered some difficulties. In fact, in each of the first four performances, each of which was held on a different evening last week, a different cast member was unable to appear for a different reason, and his or her understudy had to perform that part for the evening. Fortunately, the talented understudies quickly won over the disappointed audiences, and were greeted with ecstatic cheers at the curtain call. From the information provided, determine the evening on which each actor was unable to appear, the role he or she plays, the reason for his or her absence. (Note: All names can apply to either men or women.)


1. A cast member suffered from laryngitis at some point later in the week than an understudy took over the role of Nick.

2. The actor playing George was absent exactly two days before the one who was away filming a movie.

3. Blair Diaz missed a performance at some point earlier in the week than the person portraying Martha (who wasn't off filming a movie).

4. Devon Rochan wasn't the last actor to miss a performance.

5. Reese DeWitt was replaced by an understudy exactly two days before an actor serving jury duty was sequestered overnight and couldn't perform.

Actors: Blair Diaz, Devon Rochan, Kerry Peeples, Reese DeWitt

Days: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Reason: Filming movie, jury duty, laryngitis, stage fright

Role: George, Honey, Martha, Nick