Broadway understudy shares incredible international race to ‘Aladdin’ stage

nypost.com:

magic carpet ride.Mikayla Renfrow, who understudies Princess Jasmine in Broadway’s “Aladdin,” revealed she was helicoptered to the New Amsterdam Theater after being called in last minute while on a Delta Airlines flight from Europe. “Mikayla… please send an updated eta when you can.

I may need you for Jasmine tonight,” read a text message from the “Aladdin” stage manager that Renfrow shared on TikTok last week.According to the video, Renfrow “had 4 more hours to go, and would be landing around 5 pm — which gave me no time for me to make the show for half-hour call.” Renfrow, 24, told People that she was supposed to have arrived at JFK airport the following morning to take on the ensemble role that night.

But her flight was delayed, and her performance was pushed back another day.“I think my brain just immediately started going through every option that I knew was possible at that point,” she told the publication.

According to her TikTok — which has landed 945,000 views — Renfrow asked the Delta flight attendant if she could be the first to disembark.She had no idea how far the airline would go to help her. “Never in a million years did I think what they had in store was what the plan was going to be,” gushed Renfrow.