Broadway Stars that had debut as a child
Broadway Stars that had debut as a child
#1 Broadway Stars that had debut as a child
Posted: 7/13/07 at 11:44pmWho do you think are some of the most talented actors (Broadway, tv, or film) that made their debut as a child on Broadway? Which child actors have you seen recently that you think have potential for a successful career?
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#2re: Broadway Stars that had debut as a child
Posted: 7/13/07 at 11:45pm
Sarah Jessica Parker.
Laura Bell Bundy.
My brain has failed me yet again...
#2re: Broadway Stars that had debut as a child
Posted: 7/13/07 at 11:46pmAnthony Rapp
"I'm sort of like a child genius without being a child or a genius."~Tim Rice-Oxley
#3re: Broadway Stars that had debut as a child
Posted: 7/13/07 at 11:47pm
I believe Richard H. Blake made his debut as a child. I don't know if you could call him a star though.
As far as child actors now are concerned, I think Harrison Chad has the potential for a successful career. He's always impressed me.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
Updated On: 7/13/07 at 11:47 PM
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#4re: Broadway Stars that had debut as a child
Posted: 7/13/07 at 11:49pmI see big potential in Kelsey Fowler. I'll definitely be rooting for her in the next few years.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#5re: Broadway Stars that had debut as a child
Posted: 7/13/07 at 11:51pmLea Michele
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#6re: Broadway Stars that had debut as a child
Posted: 7/13/07 at 11:51pmAndrea McArdle
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#7re: Broadway Stars that had debut as a child
Posted: 7/13/07 at 11:52pm
Foster beat me to it.
Didn't Sutton and Hunter Foster appear as two of the kids in Will Rogers Follies at one time or another?
Hey Dottie!
Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#8re: Broadway Stars that had debut as a child
Posted: 7/13/07 at 11:53pmThat kid from The Boy from Oz
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
#9re: Broadway Stars that had debut as a child
Posted: 7/13/07 at 11:53pmLaura Bell Bundy didn't make her Broadway debut until HAIRSPRAY, just a few years ago.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#10re: Broadway Stars that had debut as a child
Posted: 7/13/07 at 11:56pm
Hunter and Sutton weren't in WILL ROGERS FOLLIES. Hunter's debut was in CATS and Sutton's was in GREASE. They were in their 20s.
Edited for spelling.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Updated On: 7/13/07 at 11:56 PM
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#11re: Broadway Stars that had debut as a child
Posted: 7/13/07 at 11:57pmWell, LBB was in Ruthless as a child, but that was off-Broadway.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#12re: Broadway Stars that had debut as a child
Posted: 7/14/07 at 12:02amSutton did the tour of Will Roger's Follies when she was 17. Not Broadway though.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#13re: Broadway Stars that had debut as a child
Posted: 7/14/07 at 12:03amThanks, Ashley. I was just about to post that.
Hey Dottie!
Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany
#14re: Broadway Stars that had debut as a child
Posted: 7/14/07 at 12:07amI wouldn't exactly call Daisy Eagan a Broadway star (she is a Tony winner though), but she was a child when she made her Broadway debut, and then she won her Tony for her second Broadway show, at age 11.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Updated On: 7/14/07 at 12:07 AM
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
JB Fan
Stand-by Joined: 9/19/06
#15re: Broadway Stars that had debut as a child
Posted: 7/14/07 at 12:11am
as a kid on Broadway:
Christian Slater
on National Tours as kids:
Bernadette Peters (Gypsy)
Jane Krakowski (The Sound of Music...I think, not 100% certain, but she was under 21 when she did Starlight Express on Broadway.)
Annie kids besides Sarah Jessica Parker (some on tours/ not Broadway):
Molly Ringwald
Alyssa Milano
Allison Smith
as teens on Broadway:
Matthew Broderick
Cynthia Nixon
Fisher Stevens
Michael Rupert
And off-Broadway Laura Bell Bundy's understudies in Ruthless were:
Natalie Portman & Britney Spears (we all know that, right?)
JB Fan
Stand-by Joined: 9/19/06
#16re: Broadway Stars that had debut as a child
Posted: 7/14/07 at 12:21am
And for all of the fans of the Jersey Boys tours:
Rick Faugno & Erich Bergen were kids on Broadway, and Jarrod Spector was a Gavroche in Les Miserables (not sure if it was Broadway or one of the Tours).
#17re: Broadway Stars that had debut as a child
Posted: 7/14/07 at 12:36amDonna Vivino
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FeelingElectric
Broadway Star Joined: 9/28/05
#18re: Broadway Stars that had debut as a child
Posted: 7/14/07 at 6:14amSarah Litzsinger, in the musical Marilyn (1983).
Drench yourself in words unspoken. Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.
"Unwritten" Natasha Bedingfield
Parks
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
#19re: Broadway Stars that had debut as a child
Posted: 7/14/07 at 6:44amMolly Ringwald played Annie at some time? Craaazy. I wonder how she was.
"If it walks like a Parks, if it wobbles like a Parks, then it's definitely fat and nobody loves it." --MA
JB Fan
Stand-by Joined: 9/19/06
#20re: Broadway Stars that had debut as a child
Posted: 7/14/07 at 7:30am"Annie kids", actually refers to kis who were in Annie not who played the title role specifically. Molly Ringwald I think was an orphan, never an Annie (I could be wrong). I think she was cast in the first season of The Facts of Life shortly after her stint in Annie. And she was never in the Broadway company...it was one of the tours.
and the mirror
Chorus Member Joined: 5/14/07
#21re: Broadway Stars that had debut as a child
Posted: 7/14/07 at 7:39am
Not sure if you consider these people "Broadway Stars" but both made their Broadway debut in Les Mis as children:
Jason Tam
Gerard Canonico (is he still considered a kid? He's 18, I think.)
#22re: Broadway Stars that had debut as a child
Posted: 7/14/07 at 9:31am
Jane Krakowski was never in THE SOUND OF MUSIC on Broadway, not sure if you meant tour. She did do a production of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC Off-Broadway at the York Theatre Company and played Fredericka.
She would have made her Broadway debut at 12 in NINE when Tommy Tune wanted her for Lady of the Spa since the role was conceived for a young girl, then he scrapped that concept and so she wasn't part of the show anymore, luckily Tune remembered her a few years later when he was casting GRAND HOTEL.
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#23re: Broadway Stars that had debut as a child
Posted: 7/14/07 at 9:40amLiza Minnelli was 17 in Flora the Red Menace.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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