Color fading on book jacket Stein & Day, book club edition 1975, 346 pages THE UNDERSTUDY swirls through a wealth of the Broadway stage, a mind-blown safari in east Africa, a Hollywood film studio, a closing-night cast party in Boston, New York's underworld and its straight analog, the television industry. Drawing on his experience as a director, Elia Kazan enhances the meaning of "arrangement" to encompass the sexual accommodations most people live by...and lie about.