Who did you see before they were famous??
Who did you see before they were famous??
henrybutler
Stand-by Joined: 7/28/07
#1Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/26/07 at 11:09pm
Did you see a community theatre, college, or regional production with anyone who went on to broadway stardom?
for instance i saw "Honk" at NSMT in 2000 with Gavin Creel before he made his bway debut in millie.
I also saw barrett foa in "Just So" also at NSMT in 2001
anyone?
henrybutler
Stand-by Joined: 7/28/07
#2re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/26/07 at 11:11pmOH and christian borle was in that same production of Just So. so cool!
jordangirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/1/06
#2re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/26/07 at 11:12pmI went to high school with Bellamy Young. She was in The Life and has done a lot of tv now. She was wonderful in school.
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#3re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/26/07 at 11:12pmSutton Foster as Eponine on tour.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#4re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/26/07 at 11:13pm
Victoria Clark in Titanic
Kerry Butler in Beauty and the Beast
The Fosters in Grease
Marissa Jaret Winokur in Grease
I'm sure there are a lot more that I can't think of off-hand.
Updated On: 8/26/07 at 11:13 PM
#5re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/26/07 at 11:18pm
Neither of these are big broadway stars, but, I saw Anne Hathaway when she was in her high school production of "Once Upon a Mattress" , and I used to wait tables with comedian/actor Jay Mohr.
edit: I almost forgot, I saw the broadway production of Othello with James Earl Jones and Christopher Plummer, with Dianne Weist as Desdemona (before her 2 Oscars) and Kelsey Grammer was Cassio (before Cheers, Fraiser, and a million Emmys).
#6re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/26/07 at 11:25pm
Celia Keenan-Bolger was in the ensemble of a production I saw of "Cinderella" I saw a billion and a half years ago.
Galen Gilliand (sorry for the spelling) was in a production of "Sound of Music" here. I did "Guys and Dolls" with Paul McGill a billion and a half years ago as well.
#7re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/26/07 at 11:28pm
Tricia Pauluccio isn't really famous, but I saw her as an orphan in Annie in 1982. 
MarkRascati
Broadway Star Joined: 5/24/06
#9re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/26/07 at 11:39pmOVER HERE, the Andrews Sisters musical, was loaded with future stars: John Travolta, Treat Williams, Marilu Henner and Ann Reinking all had featured roles in the show.
sgv123
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/06
#10re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/26/07 at 11:42pmi saw jonathan groff do a couple of shows at our local theatre.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#11re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/26/07 at 11:42pm
Saw Donna Murphy as one of the trio in
THEY'RE PLAYING OUR SONG. on Broadway.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#12re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/26/07 at 11:50pmJohn Travolta in OVER HERE!
#13re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/26/07 at 11:59pmNot sure she's "famous" yet, but I saw Kritzer in the Urinetown tour.
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musicaltheater1
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/05
#14re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/27/07 at 12:05am
Before they became famous? I can only remember a few:
Patrick Wilson in Full Monty
Sutton Foster as Eponine in Les Miz tour
Steve Pasquale as Chris in Miss Saigon tour before becoming a tv star.
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
pc1145N2
Broadway Star Joined: 5/28/07
#15re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/27/07 at 12:10amNorbert Leo Butz in the Camelot Tour.
#16re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/27/07 at 12:12am
Steve Pasquale as Chris in Miss Saigon tour before becoming a tv star.
Oh man. I saw him too. Amazing.
#17re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/27/07 at 12:12am
Stephanie J. Block did shows locally before Wicked and Boy From Oz. (Will roger's Follies-she was out my day and Crazy For You)
Juliana Hansen was in Wizard Of Oz the same place before Grease: YTOTIW
Mara Davi (my playbill said Melody Davi) on 42nd Street tour. This was 1 1/2 months before Chorus Line in S.F., where I saw her again.
Eden Espinosa on for Idinia in Wicked before Brooklyn and Wicked L.A.
Adam Wylie in Music Man (before Into The Woods)
Kingsley Leggs in Ragtime beofre Color Purple
#18re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/27/07 at 12:16am
Mara Davi in the North American/Japanese tour of 42nd Street.
I think that's it...
#19re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/27/07 at 12:18am
Jude Law in "Indiscretions".
Annabella Sciorra - classmate and scene partner.
Scott Valentine - classmate
Douglas Carter Beane - classmate
musicaltheater1
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/05
#20re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/27/07 at 12:34amLea Salonga - I saw her on tv before she auditioned for Kim for the London production of Miss Saigon.
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
Link Larkin Wanabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#21re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/27/07 at 12:41am
Constantine Maroulis on the non-eq Rent tour as Roger just before he was on Idol.
My parents went to Oxford when Rowan Atkinson was there and saw plays he was in, but he was just in the chorus.
Akiva
#22re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/27/07 at 1:16am
I saw Megan Mullally in Grease before Will and Grace. I also saw Sutton Foster in the Les Miz Tour, and I was in regional productions of Peter Pan and Alice thru the lookng Glass with Kate Reinders in Michigan.
Updated On: 8/27/07 at 01:16 AM
Mythus
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
#23re: Who did you see before they were famous??
Posted: 8/27/07 at 1:56amA lot of people, at North Shore Music Theatre.
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