ok, so i'm cleaning out my garage and i found all these playbills from national tours that came to san diego about ten years ago. i was reading my Grease playbill (starring charo and erik estrada!! haha) and the person playing Eugene was Matt Cavenaugh! it says it was his very first national tour!
also, i have a friend who is in love with Ricky Ullman. i will admit that i think Phil of the Future is a funny show and it's on of the few rare disney shows i like. anyways, i was reading the King and I tour playbill with Maureen McGovern and it said that Ricky Ullman played her son!
it's so weird going back and reading all these playbills and remembering that you saw people before they were famous or before they had their big breaks... also a blast from the past because i remember the productions, but only a few cast members... other playbills i found:
Evita staring Raul Esparza Cabaret starring Norbert Leo Butz Footloose starring Richard H. Blake and Christian Borle Chicago starring Charlotte D'Amboise... damn she's been doing this role for a LOOOONG time
I love it too. I didn't realize I saw Susan Egan in Bye Bye Birdie until just a few years ago when I was going through some playbills.
Was Charo the teacher or Rizzo? lol
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
I know I saw Miss Saigon in Toronto with Norm Lewis. That was a long time ago.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
One of the neatest keepsakes I have inherited from my mother are her old Playbills- I was SO jealous that she saw Bebe Neuwirth in the original "A Chorus Line!"
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
I saw Nick Jonas in Anne Get Your Gun. I could probably sell it on eBay to some crazed preteen, but it was my first Broadway show, so I'm keeping it for posterity.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never
knowing how
I think the only really good one I have is my '93 Joseph... playbill - Marc Kudisch as one of the brothers. :) I'll have to go back through and see if I have anything else great!
it always makes me laugh to look at my Sound of Music revival Playbill with Laura Benanti in the ensemble. I just wish I could find my Annie Playbill with Sutton Foster as Star-to-Be.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
I went through some of my old ones and the two that really stuck out to me were Norbert Leo Butz in Cabaret and Hinton Battle in Ragtime. I was so young when i saw both of these shows, it was a nice stroll down memory lane.
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
I saw a regional production of Les Mis about two years ago, and I just found my playbill for it and apparently Richard Todd Adams played Javert and John Cudia played Valjean. There goes MY memory...
Whoever says money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to shop. - Bo Derek
This isn't a playbill but I wish I could get my hands on the US pilot of Red Dwarf with Craig Bierko as Lister and Hinton Battle as The Cat.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
I saw a regional production of Les Mis about two years ago, and I just found my playbill for it and apparently Richard Todd Adams played Javert and John Cudia played Valjean. There goes MY memory...
Marriott Lincolnshire! And Chris Peluso was Marius.
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
I love going through old playbills! I keep playbills of shows I've been in too, and it's funny to look through them and see the people who were in shows with me. I had totally forgotten that Burke Moses was in a regional production of Beauty and the Beast with me years ago! And when Pal Joey with Matthew Risch opened, I could've sworn he looked familiar. Turns out I was in a production of Joseph with him five years ago. He was Levi. Crazy!!
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
I went back to my playbills after reading this thread and I was surprised to see that I saw Aaron Tveit in Rent. It says he took leave from Ithaca College to do it too, it was his first national tour.
Big was my first Broadway show and I still have the playbill from it. I took it to the stage door when I was seeing Poppins and got Daniel Jenkins to sign it. He was very taken aback in a very good way that A someone like me was such a big fan of the show and B that I asked him to sign it. That led to a good fifteen min chat about various aspects of the show.
"If you try to shag my husband while I am still alive, I will shove the art of motorcycle maintenance up your rancid little Cu**. That's a good dear"
Tom Stoppard's Rock N Roll
Yes, going through old Playbills can be fun and enlightening, however, my Playbills from the early 60's are crumbling. They've not only yellowed with age but are literally falling apart because of the acid used in processing the paper.
One of my favorites is my Playbill from the 1982(?) production of Othello with James Earl Jones and Christopher Plummer. It's always makes me happy to know I saw Dianne Weist a Desdemona and Kelsey Grammer as Cassio before I knew who they were.
I killed the boss, you don't think they're gonna fire me over a thing like that!!!!