Article June 8, 2009 Issue

TWO LIVES in step

BY KIM SHIPPEY, SENIOR WRITER

QUESTION : How do you get even a few moments with Haley Henderson-Smith and her husband, Easton Smith, who are understudies to the leads dancing in the ensemble on the national tour of the stage version of Eleanor Bergstein's Dirty Dancing?

Answer: You use e-mail, cellphone, and your own legs to catch them after one of their weekly understudy rehearsals, after one of their ballet classes, at the stage door after one of their eight performances a week, or at a daytime testimony meeting or a Sunday service in a Christian Science church.

For me, the last option proved best. "For us," says Haley, "nothing is more important than these services." She says she couldn't imagine how they'd survive their performance and training schedule without the predictable inspiration of church.

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