Where did you first see them before they were Stars?- Page 2
Where did you first see them before they were Stars?
jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#25re: Where did you first see them before they were Stars?
Posted: 8/22/06 at 12:59pmI saw Rod Serling (host of the original "Twilight Zone") at IC when I went to check out the school a year or two before I enrolled. Also, I sat next to Bruce Beck now on WNBC Sports.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#26re: Where did you first see them before they were Stars?
Posted: 8/22/06 at 1:08pm
Sarah Jessia Parker in ANNIE (we were both 14 - 1979!)
Bebe Neuwirth as Sheila in the Nat'l Tour of A CHORUS LINE
Jason Alexander in THE RINK
Glenn Close in BARNUM
TR Knight working at Bed Bath & Beyond
Roger Bart in a South Florida production of HAIR
Charlotte d'Amboise in the Nat'l Tour of CATS
Sutton Foster in the Nat'l Tour of WILL ROGER'S FOLLIES' chorus
...tons of others I can't remember right now
NJgirl
Broadway Star Joined: 10/13/04
#27re: Where did you first see them before they were Stars?
Posted: 8/22/06 at 1:17pm
Sarah Uriarte-Berry (when she was Sarah Uriarte) in Les Mis back in the early 90's
and Sebastian Arcelus in a location production of Meet Me in St Louis at least 5 or 6 years ago
mustard
Stand-by Joined: 7/27/06
#28re: Where did you first see them before they were Stars?
Posted: 8/23/06 at 3:32am
Susan Egan in South Pacific and Baby in Sacramento about 13 years ago.
Gary Beach was in South Pacific too, but at that time I didn't know who he was. It was only after The Producers that I looked him up and saw his resume online. Hehe.
Updated On: 8/23/06 at 03:32 AM
COOOOLkid
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/05
#29re: Where did you first see them before they were Stars?
Posted: 8/23/06 at 4:58amI saw Eden Espinosa at Disney's California Adventure in this horrible show called Steps in Time II. I thought she was a powerful singer, but of course, I didn't know how popular she'd become back then.
#30re: Where did you first see them before they were Stars?
Posted: 8/23/06 at 8:08am
SJP in Annie in 1979, too. I even have a picture with me and her at the stagedoor.
Malcolm Gets tending bar at Les Miz in 1988.
#31re: Where did you first see them before they were Stars?
Posted: 8/23/06 at 9:35amSteve Kazee in The Lost Colony in 2001 (I think) in my hometown of Manteo.
somebear
Chorus Member Joined: 8/16/06
#32re: Where did you first see them before they were Stars?
Posted: 8/23/06 at 10:15amI saw Norbert as the emcee in touring Cabaret in Minneapolis. I never even knew it was him until I found the playbill recently. Was kind of funny.
bare_nakedlady
Broadway Star Joined: 5/9/05
#33re: Where did you first see them before they were Stars?
Posted: 8/23/06 at 10:59am
She's not a STAR yet!! But she ought to be!
I saw DYLIS CROMAN play 'Sweet Charity' in Chicago when Applegate broke her foot. She is so radiant and an amazing performer. I think her time is coming. 
... I hope.
BJC899
Broadway Star Joined: 7/20/04
#34re: Where did you first see them before they were Stars?
Posted: 8/23/06 at 11:07amI saw Jamie Lynn Sigler a billion years ago in The Wiz at the CAP center. does that count?
BJC899
Broadway Star Joined: 7/20/04
#35re: Where did you first see them before they were Stars?
Posted: 8/23/06 at 11:07amI saw Jamie Lynn Sigler a billion years ago in The Wiz at the CAP center. does that count?
#36re: Where did you first see them before they were Stars?
Posted: 8/23/06 at 11:54am
Joanna Gleason and James Naughton in the OC of I LOVE MY WIFE (1977)
Ellen Foley and Loretta Devine in a short-lived revival of HAIR (1977)
Gary Beach and Rita Rudner as Rooster and Lily in ANNIE (1980)
Jason Alexander and Liz Callaway in OC of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG (1981)
Kevin Gray in PACIFIC OVERTURES (1984 off Broadway revival)
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Millie Lammoreaux
Featured Actor Joined: 7/3/05
#37re: Where did you first see them before they were Stars?
Posted: 8/26/06 at 11:11amJohn Mahoney, Swoozie Kurtz, Christine Baranski, Patricia Clarkson and a chubby, 20-year-old Ben Stiller in "House of Blue Leaves" (Broadway, 1986)
#38re: Where did you first see them before they were Stars?
Posted: 8/26/06 at 12:14pmPatti Cohoner in The Sound of Music in I think 1998
#39re: Where did you first see them before they were Stars?
Posted: 8/26/06 at 12:41pmTaye Diggs in To Kill A Mocking Bird, about 18 years ago or so in Rochester NY. He was still Scott Diggs then.
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#40re: Where did you first see them before they were Stars?
Posted: 8/26/06 at 12:46pm
Patrick Wilson in New York Theatre Workshop's Bright Lights Big City.
And he went straight from there to a lead in Broadway's shabby Fascinatin' Rhythm, then Full Monty with a Tony nom, then Oklahoma with a Tony nom
and then musical theatre lost him to the movies!
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