Your First Time

Fun indeed!

First theatrical experience: Some child-friendly christmas play at the local theatre, can't remember what it was though. I wanna say Aladdin or Sinbad or something similarly 1001 Night-themed...

First musical (Amateur): I live in an AmDram wasteland. My first/only decent amateur production I saw in Tulsa, Oklahoma, it was "The Music Man"

First musical (Professional): Oklahoma! at Discoveryland Tulsa.

First onstage appearance: Does the nativity play at the local church count?

First Role: An Angel

First West End Show: Starlight Express, Apollo Victoria (I wanna say... 1990?)

First Broadway Show: The very first was Carousel at the Vivian Beaumont (1993)

First musical: Starlight Express in Bochum ca 1998

First Broadway musical: The Lion King in 2002

First West End musical: Wicked in 2008

I didn't really perform in anything yet. But I was dragged on stage at Priscilla once...

First theatrical experience: Must have been the local church panto; if we are talking professional, something at Oldham Coliseum in around 1977
First musical (Amateur): Mack and Mabel, Grand Theatre, Leeds, 2000
First musical (Professional): Charlie Girl, Manchester Opera House, 1987
First onstage appearance: performer in Multiversity, Sheffield Showroom Cinema, 2005
First West End Show: Miss Saigon, original cast, Drury Lane, 1989

First theatrical experience: Snow White, some children's theatre in the early '80s

First musical (Amateur): Annie, Diablo Light Opera Company, Walnut Creek, California (a real company; it has a different name now), early '80s

First musical (Professional): Miss Saigon 1st national US tour, Los Angeles 1995

First onstage appearance: never

First Role: I had one line in a classroom production of The Emperor's New Clothes in second grade, but I was sick the day of the show!

First West End Show: Jersey Boys, 2009

First Broadway Show: Les Miz, 2007

First theatrical experience: The Wizard of Oz, Grand Opera House, Belfast 1997 Age 5

First musical (Amateur): The Wizard of Oz (again), Ulster Theatre Company at Waterfront Hall, Belfast
2000 (Fun Fact, Zoe Rainey was Dorothy) Age 8

First musical (Professional): Joseph, Grand Opera House, Belfast 2003 Age 11

First West End (Musical): Mary Poppins, Prince Edward Theatre, 7th December 2004 (2nd Preview) Age 12

First and Last Role: Narrator in Joseph, High School 2008, Age 15 (I didn't even tell my parents I had got a part, they thought I had to be there every night because the prefects had to be, and then the surprise was when they got tickets to see it on the last night without telling me, because my cousin was in it as well, last thing I remember is looking at my phone before going on and seeing a text from my mum saying "where are you", about 1 minute before starting I replied "SURPRISE!", and there I was on stage singing the prologue, with my phone still in my hand, managed to casually throw it off stage for someone to catch in the middle of Jacob and Sons, which got a laugh from some people who noticed I was standing on stage for the first 3 songs holding my phone)

First West End (Play): Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Vaudeville Theatre, December 2009, Age 17

First foreign-language musical: Hinterm Horizont (in German with English Subtitles), Berlin 2015, Age 22

First Broadway: Kinky Boots, Al Hirschfeld Theatre, March 2016, Age 23

First theatrical experience: The Wizard of Oz (Royal Theatre, Northampton) Aged 3 - ran out before the overture!

First musical (Amateur): HMS Pinafore (Royal Theatre, Northampton) Aged 11

First musical (Professional): Barnum (Michael Crawford - can't remember the theatre) Aged 12/3 (I think(

First onstage appearance: (excluding school shows) - urchin in Oliver! (ABC Cinema, Northampton) Aged 11

First Role: Professor Willard/Simon Stanford in Our Town at school

First West End Show: Barnum (see above)

First Broadway Show: Victor/Victoria - just before Julie Andrews left the production!

First theatrical experience: Dick Whittington, Ipswich Regent (aged 4)

First musical (Amateur): Chicago, Arts Theatre Orkney

First musical (Professional): Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Ipswich Regent

First onstage appearance: Baby Jesus...aged 8 months!

First Role: Narrator in Joseph

First West End Show: Wicked, 2009

First Broadway Show: Newsies, 2013

First Play : Birdland (Royal Court) *First Theatre trip

First Musical : Urinetown (Apollo)

First theatrical experience: Snow White in the early 1990s

First musical (Professional): Mamma Mia (international tour, Dublin, 2004)

First musical (Amateur): My Fair Lady (2008)

First West End show: Wicked (2007)

First Broadway show: Chicago (2007)

First West End play: Henry V at the Noel Coward a couple of years ago

First ballet: The Nutcracker at the Coliseum

First opera: The Pearl Fishers at the Coliseum

First (and last) appearance onstage: My Fair Lady

Stoned already at such a young age!

First show ever: 1974 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Sheffield Crucible. The "chariot of gold" in the final scene was a gold Aston Martin. Lene Lovich was in the orchestra.

First RSC: 1977 A Comedy of Errors with Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Roger Rees, Francesca Annis.

First non RSC play: 1977 On Approval at Birmingham Repertory Theatre. I seem to remember that Dame Patricia Routledge was in it, but not sure if this is a false memory.

First West End musical: 1977 A Chorus Line with Diane Langton and Michael Staniforth.

First West End play: 1979 The Crucifer of Blood at the Haymarket Theatre Royal. A Sherlock Holmes story.

First National Theatre play: 1980 Death of a Salesman with Warren Mitchell and Doreen Mantle.

First Broadway musical: 1987 Starlight Express at the Gershwin.

First Donmar Warehouse show: 1996 Nine.

First Almeida: 1997 Ivanov.

Only stage appearances at Grammar School - not very successfully!