Who did you see before they were famous??- Page 6
Who did you see before they were famous??
re: Who did you see before they were famous??#125
Posted: 1/17/09 at 5:24pmAri Graynor as Little Red in Trinity Rep's production of INTO THE WOODS in Providence, RI.
re: Who did you see before they were famous??#126
Posted: 1/17/09 at 6:17pmBarbara Cook in the 1951 musical FLAHOOLEY.
re: Who did you see before they were famous??#127
Posted: 1/17/09 at 6:22pm
I saw Skylar Astin play Jean Valjean at Stagedoor Manor's "Les Miserables." Great place for early star spottings. Not as famous, but I saw Erich Rosenberg at Stagedoor rehearsing as the lead in "Little Me." He played Gaudio on the "Jersey Boys" tour.
Not for me but: a good friend of mine is the step-nephew of Mandy Patinkin.
Updated On: 1/17/09 at 06:22 PM
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re: Who did you see before they were famous??#128
Posted: 1/17/09 at 6:38pm
I almost forgot this:
I was Brian Dennehy's dresser in a community theater production of CAMELOT.
re: Who did you see before they were famous??#129
Posted: 1/17/09 at 10:01pm
Elliott Gould and Liza Minnelli in "The Fantasticks".
Suzanne Pleshette as Ann Bancroft's replacement in "The Miracle Worker".
Christopher Walken in Anna Maria Alberghetti's stock tour of "West Side Story".
A teenage Sam Harris in a college production titled "Hurry Hurry Hollywood".
A pre movies Glenn Close in "Barnum".
Veering somewhat from the question, "Henry Sweet Henry" had a remarkable number of people in its ensemble/chorus that would have future careers as performers, choreographers and directors with Baayork Lee and Priscilla Lopez ("A Chorus Line"), Kim Milford (Rocky in "The Rocky Horror Show"), Pia Zadora (whatever), Robert Avian (directed the recent "A Chorus Line" revival). Louise Lasser ("Mary Hartman") had a small supporting role. What I remember and enjoyed most about the production was the impact Michael Bennett's cinematic staging (though he was only credited with the choreography) had on me. Years later I'd see it again in "Dreamgirls" direction.
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re: Who did you see before they were famous??#130
Posted: 1/17/09 at 10:06pmAshley Spencer? She is famous?
re: Who did you see before they were famous??#131
Posted: 1/17/09 at 10:15pmcindicindi... you could say that about a lot of people mentioned here!!!
re: Who did you see before they were famous??#132
Posted: 1/18/09 at 12:01am
Betty Buckley in Pippin
Nick Jonas in Annie Get Your Gun
Nancy Opel in Evita (matinees instead of Patti Lupone)
re: Who did you see before they were famous??#133
Posted: 1/18/09 at 12:54am
Demitri2, you reminded me of seeing Christopher Walken in several productions in the early 1970s at Lincoln Center. By that time he was an established New York actor, but several years off from stardom.
And also that I saw Glenn Close in her Broadway debut when she replaced Mary Ure in Hal Prince's production of Love for Love for the Phoenix Rep. She was fine but it was Mary Beth Hurt who stole that production.
re: Who did you see before they were famous??#134
Posted: 1/18/09 at 1:10am
Not entirely famous but Patina Miller in a few college productions and possibly Megan Hilty (it was a small student directed piece with a ditzy blonde type who was a sr. they same year Meg would have been).
Also she's not famous yet, but Tro Shaw who is playing Anybodys in WSS was in my Shakespeare class.
re: Who did you see before they were famous??#135
Posted: 1/18/09 at 1:16amPaige Davis in the Beauty and the Beast national tour (before Trading Spaces)
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re: Who did you see before they were famous??#136
Posted: 1/18/09 at 1:21am
As someone else already posted, Kelsey Grammer in "Othello" (with James Earl Jones and Christopher Plummer).
"Benefactors" starred Sam Waterston, Glenn Close, Simon Jones and Mary Beth Hurt.
Saw "Mail", Brian (Stokes) Mitchell's Broadway debut.
re: Who did you see before they were famous??#137
Posted: 1/18/09 at 1:59am
" 'Benefactors' starred Sam Waterston, Glenn Close, Simon Jones and Mary Beth Hurt."
Who is the person here who wasn't well known at the time but later became famous? Close had already been nominated for three Oscars and Waterston had been nominated for one. Mary Beth Hurt was well-established. Actually, she was probably better known than she is now. And Jones is not exactly famous even now.
I do love that play and I kick myself that I didn't see that production.
Updated On: 1/18/09 at 01:59 AM
re: Who did you see before they were famous??#138
Posted: 1/18/09 at 2:12am
"Ashley Spencer? She is famous?"
I didn't see your name in the playbill as the lead in a Broadway show...
Nor did I see you on national television being cast for one...
re: Who did you see before they were famous??#139
Posted: 1/18/09 at 3:26pm
I had mentioned that Shere Renie Scott was in the Ninja Turtles rock concert in 1990.
Have fun! And the hair!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl8pXKBtU
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re: Who did you see before they were famous??#140
Posted: 1/18/09 at 4:07pm
I directed Sally Murphy ina summer stock production of BABES IN ARMS in 1982 - she was 18 years old.
Yes, Sally Murphy is 45!!!
re: Who did you see before they were famous??#141
Posted: 1/18/09 at 4:13pmJames Earl Jones as Macbeth in theater in the park that toured around NYC in 1966.
re: Who did you see before they were famous??#142
Posted: 1/18/09 at 4:22pm
JasonM12480 I TOTALLY saw Sherie Rene Scott in the Ninja Turtles Coming Out of Their Shells Tour, AND have it on video. I had the cassette tape at some point too that they gave away at Pizza Hut.
Also I went to high school with Aaron Tveit so I MORE than saw (performed) with him before he was famous.
re: Who did you see before they were famous??#143
Posted: 1/18/09 at 4:24pmI saw Autumn Hurlbert in the national tour of Little Women before she was on Legally Blonde: The Search for Elle Woods.
re: Who did you see before they were famous??#144
Posted: 1/18/09 at 4:40pm
Nick Jonas in Annie Get Your Gun
Sutton Foster in Annie
Lea Michell in Ragtime (well known in the broadway community)
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re: Who did you see before they were famous??#145
Posted: 1/18/09 at 4:44pm
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