Anyone see any Bway stars perform before they 'made it'...?- Page 2

[MungoGypsy8232]

Posted: 6/28/08 at 1:52pm

Kathy Deitch in high school

[Theatreboy49]

Posted: 6/28/08 at 2:08pm

I saw Norbert Leo Butz as the Emcee in the Cabaret tour.

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 6/28/08 at 2:09pm

She hasn't really "made it" yet, but Alli Mauzey went on as Glinda when I saw Wicked.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 6/28/08 at 2:10pm

Kelli O'Hara in the ensemble of the Jekyll & Hyde tour.

[Theatreboy49]

Posted: 6/28/08 at 2:21pm

Now a famous person yet but Alice Lee (a swing in SA) is from the subburb over from me and I saw her last year as Eponine in her hs production of Les Mis

[inlovewithjerryherman]

Posted: 6/28/08 at 2:27pm

Victoria Clark at the Pittsburgh CLO as Dolly (she was amazing)
Sutton Foster as Nellie Forbush at the Pittsburgh CLO (also amazing)

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 6/28/08 at 2:28pm

Sutton Foster as Eponine on tour.

[PlayhouseBeauty]

Posted: 6/28/08 at 3:32pm

I have seen John Lolyd Young in the Chosen and the Drawer Boy, Laura Benanti in Man of LaMancha and Jane Eyre, Kristin Chenoweth in Animal Crackers, and Max von Essen in My Fair Lady....I probably have seen more I just can't think of them off the top of my head...I live very close to the PaperMill Playhouse where I have seen all these wonderful broadway actors...My Aunt has been buying season tickets ever since I can remember...I have seen every show in that theater since 1992

[ggersten]

Posted: 6/28/08 at 3:40pm

Mary Louise Parker in Prelude to A Kiss at Berkeley Rep before it went to Broadway.

Whoopi Goldberg doing standup (Surfer Chick, and ET In Oakland) in San Francisco, before, well, anything.

[Broadwayboy2631]

Posted: 6/28/08 at 4:53pm

Laura Bell Bundy as an Standby in Wicked.

[musicandtemiror]

Posted: 6/28/08 at 4:56pm

I saw Jonathan Groff in The Sound Of Music tour in 2003 as Raul
It was neat looking back at my playbill and I was like .....oMG!

[defyingravity08]

Posted: 6/28/08 at 5:07pm

Not really big but...

I saw Kyle Dean Massey as Billy in the 42nd Street.
Constantine Rousouli as Link in Hairspray before he covered for APA when he was injured.

Not sure if this counts but Rod Serling is from the City next to mine, Binghamton, He has his own room at the Forum Theatre.

[broadwayboy101]

Posted: 6/28/08 at 5:09pm

Saw Paige Davis in the Beauty and the Beast national tour when I was pretty young. I saw in her bio for Sweet Charity that she'd done the tour, and I looked at my old program from it and sure enough there she was as Babette.

[jaded]

Posted: 6/28/08 at 5:13pm

donna vivino as shelly in hairspray before she went on to Fame Becomes Me with Martin Short and elphaba standby on the wicked tour.

[Jamie Pierce]

Posted: 6/28/08 at 5:57pm

Kristen Chenoweth in Steel Pier.

Sutton Foster going on as Sandy u/s in the Grease! national tour.

Marc Kudisch in Joseph...

And I was in the Evita chorus with Elizabeth Stanley and Autumn Hurlburt several years ago at Pioneer Theatre in Utah.

And in my first New York apartment building, Laura Benanti lived two doors down from me with two other roommates. Now she's a Tony winner (and a very deserved one)!
Updated On: 8/2/08 at 05:57 PM

[bwaybabe2]

Posted: 6/28/08 at 6:15pm

...ruprecht...perhaps some of us start threads that might have happenned a year or many years ago...but, I really don't want to have to start "researching" (I might not even get it right as what to put in search to bring it up) every time I come up with a thread I want to start.
Just think: There are a lot of people here who are new, and have fresh input on these threads, so as far as they (and I) are concerned, this is news to us :)
Can't we just be happy and join in the fun...? Again, we all have the option to choose the ones we answear
Mr. BrodyFosse...as always, you are by far superior to all of us in bringing up those old threads...it is a service to all, because we can also look at the previous answears without "sweating it" (not that we are lazy, just the reasons I mentioned above)

[Gary Indiana]

Posted: 6/28/08 at 6:57pm

I saw Cady Huffman in Big Rosemary, which was one of the worst shows I've ever seen. I also saw Sutton Foster as an ensemble member in Les Miserables, and Hunter Foster in Grease and Footloose.

[[tos]fan999]

Posted: 6/28/08 at 7:24pm

I knew Ashley Brown when she went to my high school.

[felineofavenueb]

Posted: 6/28/08 at 8:52pm

While all involved were already names, I saw Wicked in the first week of it's San Francisco tryout.

Not technically a star, but saw Spring Awakening's Remy Zaken in Lippa's A Little Princess during it's presumed (but ultimately canned) pre-Bway run.

Oh, and I saw Billy Ray Cyrus in Annie Get Your Gun as Frank Butler. Which does not at all fit these criteria but was to this day the most hilarious theatrical experience EVER.

[parislover87]

Posted: 6/28/08 at 9:02pm

Annaleigh Ashford as Kendra's understudy in the national tour of Wicked before her success in Legally Blonde and the Broadway production of Wicked... no not a star, but I'm young... I've got time to see some more

[allofmylife]

Posted: 6/28/08 at 10:44pm

I saw Dianne Keaton in "Hair" and Stockard Channing in "Two Gentlemen of Verona" the musical. And I'm sure many more.

Oh, and I worked on the "Grease" tour that John Travolta and Marilu Henner and Jeff Conaway did.

[jwsel]

Posted: 6/28/08 at 11:00pm

I spent a year living in London in the late 1980s and saw a number of actors who later became better known, but I lost my old programs. I know I saw Ralph Fiennes in a small role in The Man Who Came to Dinner. I also saw Brian Stokes Mitchell in Mail in Los Angeles.

[little_sally]

Posted: 6/28/08 at 11:09pm

I saw Jessica Grove (who isn't really a "star" yet but she is playing one of the Celestes in Sunday...) as Dorothy in a production of The Wizard of Oz at the Theatre at MSG about ten years ago.

[Thomas14850ny2]

Posted: 6/28/08 at 11:28pm

Shirley MacLaine in the chorus of Rodgers and Hammerstein's ME AND JULIET

John Travolta and Ann Reinking in minor roles in OVER HERE
Gwen Verdon in CAN-CAN
Julie Andrews in THE BOY FRIEND
Bea Arthur in THE THREEPENNY OPERA
Maggie Smith in NEW FACES OF 1956
Carol Lawrence in ZIEGFELD FOLLIES
James Earl Jones playing a butler in SUNRISE AT CAMPOBELLO
William Shatner in THE WORLD OF SUZIE WONG
Diane Keaton and Melba Moore in HAIR
Jill Clayburgh in PIPPIN
Christopher Reeve in A MATTER OF GRAVITY
Jason Alexander in THE RINK
Marin Mazzie in BIG RIVER
Jane Krakowski in STARLIGHT EXPRESS
Faith Prince in JEROME ROBBINS' BROADWAY


To name a few

[scaryclowns223]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 1:58am

Not really a star, but I saw Janet Dacal in the chorus of a regional production of URINETOWN in Miami between IN THE HEIGHTS's runs off-broadway and on broadway.