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Post by alece10 on Mar 30, 2020 14:44:37 GMT
This might be a bit of fun for those stuck at home.
I was just searching for an old programme and picked up Avenue Q Noel Coward Theatre 2006.
Just had a look at the cast and apart from obvious cast members like Julie Atherton, Jon Robyns and Simon Lipkin I also found:
Giles Terera as Gary, Gabriel Vick as swing and wait for it......
Luke Evan's ensemble!
Anyone else fancy a go at surprising us?
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Post by robertb213 on Mar 30, 2020 15:02:48 GMT
I can't say for definite as I didn't buy a programme at the time, but there's a chance I saw Tom Holland as Michael in Billy Elliot in 2009.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Mar 30, 2020 15:11:40 GMT
This might be a bit of fun for those stuck at home. I was just searching for an old programme and picked up Avenue Q Noel Coward Theatre 2006. Just had a look at the cast and apart from obvious cast members like Julie Atherton, Jon Robyns and Simon Lipkin I also found: Giles Terera as Gary, Gabriel Vick as swing and wait for it...... Luke Evan's ensemble! Anyone else fancy a go at surprising us? I cast Mr Vick in his first student show in Oxford! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2020 18:33:57 GMT
I saw David Tennant in The Glass Menagerie in Dundee in the early 90s, when he'd just graduated. I hadn't realised (I just remembered a very skinny young man) until I saw the programme recently.
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Post by fiyero on Mar 30, 2020 20:48:35 GMT
This might be a bit of fun for those stuck at home. I was just searching for an old programme and picked up Avenue Q Noel Coward Theatre 2006. Just had a look at the cast and apart from obvious cast members like Julie Atherton, Jon Robyns and Simon Lipkin I also found: Giles Terera as Gary, Gabriel Vick as swing and wait for it...... Luke Evan's ensemble! Anyone else fancy a go at surprising us? I saw Giles in Avenue Q and Book of Mormon before his rise to Hamilton Luke Evans was in Rent Remixed too but I don't know if I saw him or not Lee Mead was an understudy in Phantom of the Opera when I saw it and I recall the undersudy was on for Raoul but that could be a false memory and might not have been him anyway! Of course lots of us saw Idina Menzel before Frozen happened, she was a pretty big star but seeing her concert at the 400 odd seat Ambassadors theatre before she went on to play the Royal Albert Hall was rather special. I am sure there are more I don't remember or never noticed. It is nice seeing people I've seen before, whether they are stars or only friends and family would know their name |
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Post by richey on Mar 30, 2020 21:14:19 GMT
I was going through my theatre programmes and found one from an RSC production of Midsummer Night's Dream that I'd seen when I was doing my O levels way back in the 80s and there was a very young Pete Postlewaite and Sean Bean before they were famous
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2020 21:25:13 GMT
I remember being impressed by some of the young cast in Burn / Chatroom / Citizenship at the National in 2006 - they included Matt Smith, Andrew Garfield and Andrea Risborough  |
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Post by SuperTrooper on Mar 30, 2020 21:41:01 GMT
I was going through my theatre programmes and found one from an RSC production of Midsummer Night's Dream that I'd seen when I was doing my O levels way back in the 80s and there was a very young Pete Postlewaite and Sean Bean before they were famous Haha! I remember seeing Sean Bean in a show at the Westminster Theatre in Victoria (the one that burned down) in the 80's, possibly a student end of year type think. An O Level school trip. We had a massive laugh rhyming SEAN with BEAN! He was quite handsome as I recall, and we were teenagers! |
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Post by harrietcraig on Mar 30, 2020 21:47:59 GMT
I saw Ben Kingsley as Demetrius and Patrick Stewart as Snout in the Peter Brook Midsummer Night’s Dream on Broadway in 1971.
I saw Meryl Streep in the title role in a college production of Miss Julie in (probably) 1970 or 1971. (Meryl and I went to the same college, she was a year ahead of me and graduated in 1971, so it can’t have been later than that.)
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Post by princeton on Mar 30, 2020 22:25:58 GMT
Manchester Royal Exchange was always a good place to see up and coming talent. I saw Michael Sheen as Romeo in the early 1990 and Andrew Garfield in the same role about 15 years later (with Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Juliet). I also saw what I think is Kate Winsett's only professional stage appearance in What the Butler Saw; Rufus Sewell as Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, and a years later Cush Jumbo as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion and Nora in A Doll's House (both directed by Greg Hersov who is scheduled to direct her in Hamlet this summer - though all bets are off on whether that will or won't happen now). There were others which I can't recall off the top of my head.
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Post by lynette on Mar 30, 2020 22:32:16 GMT
Is this a “I saw ..’ before he-she was famous thread? Or a guess who played what in the past thread/ Both? Great. I saw Diana Rigg play Viola RSC memorable in a big hat. I saw Brian Cox play Orlando at the ~Birmingham Rep in production with cut out sheep. brilliant. Anna Calder Marshall was Rosalind. Haven’t they done well? And I saw Mike ( as listed) Gambon play something there too. I had the programme once... everyone played there at one time or another. According to the Rosenthal book, Gambon was ‘sent out’ to the provinces by Olivier who didnt want him pitching the lead roles at the new NT.
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Post by kathryn on Mar 31, 2020 9:57:10 GMT
I belatedly realised that it was Taron Egerton who played the young swimmer lad in Last of the Hausmans. His first job out of drama school.
My theatre buddy and I have started going to some RADA productions, so hopefully in years to come we can play this game a lot!
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Post by Jan on Mar 31, 2020 10:21:50 GMT
In 1985 I saw Alex Jennings in one of his very first professional engagements playing the character who brings on the snake in Antony and Cleopatra.
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Post by vdcni on Mar 31, 2020 10:39:03 GMT
I belatedly realised that it was Taron Egerton who played the young swimmer lad in Last of the Hausmans. His first job out of drama school. My theatre buddy and I have started going to some RADA productions, so hopefully in years to come we can play this game a lot! Wow, I remember the play, particularly because when he came out in his trunks my mate next to me gasped very loudly and we were in the front row so it was very obvious but I had no idea that was Taron Egerton until now! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2020 10:39:34 GMT
I saw Brian Cox play Orlando at the ~Birmingham Rep in production with cut out sheep. brilliant. Brian Cox turned up in a 1977 episode of ITV daytime soap 'Rooms' I watched last week |
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Post by Someone in a tree on Mar 31, 2020 10:50:33 GMT
Damien Lewis as the Prince, Into the woods at the Donmar Warehouse in 1998. Looking at the cast list it was generally golden but Damien Lewis in a sondheim #happydays www.sondheimguide.com/ |
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Post by kathryn on Mar 31, 2020 11:01:10 GMT
I belatedly realised that it was Taron Egerton who played the young swimmer lad in Last of the Hausmans. His first job out of drama school. My theatre buddy and I have started going to some RADA productions, so hopefully in years to come we can play this game a lot! Wow, I remember the play, particularly because when he came out in his trunks my mate next to me gasped very loudly and we were in the front row so it was very obvious but I had no idea that was Taron Egerton until now! Yes, he was rather tasty! In hindsight there was an obvious Welsh influence on his ‘Cornish’ accent. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2020 12:25:31 GMT
Back in 1987/88 i was in a few productions with a local rep company and over the season we had many people making their professional debuts - Sean Pertwee, John Barr, Catherine Russell, Mark Strong and Joanna Riding. She had star quality the minute sge came on stage and its been great to see her go onto to such great things.
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Post by lynette on Mar 31, 2020 12:36:55 GMT
In 1985 I saw Alex Jennings in one of his very first professional engagements playing the character who brings on the snake in Antony and Cleopatra. He is too tall to play that! Gotta be a small tubby person. Well, that’s how I see it but I can absolutely see AJ nailing it. How wonderful. |
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Post by alece10 on Mar 31, 2020 15:07:43 GMT
Damien Lewis as the Prince, Into the woods at the Donmar Warehouse in 1998. Looking at the cast list it was generally golden but Damien Lewis in a sondheim #happydays www.sondheimguide.com/I was also looking at that programme yesterday and didn't pick up on that name. I had also forgotten Sophia Thompson was in it |
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Post by alece10 on Mar 31, 2020 15:09:21 GMT
Wow, I remember the play, particularly because when he came out in his trunks my mate next to me gasped very loudly and we were in the front row so it was very obvious but I had no idea that was Taron Egerton until now! Yes, he was rather tasty! In hindsight there was an obvious Welsh influence on his ‘Cornish’ accent. Was that at the NT? I saw it but remember very little. Also saw Tom Hardy topless the in Man of Mode. |
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Post by duncan on Mar 31, 2020 15:37:20 GMT
Sadly for me the people I've seen years ago who went onto star in things tend to be those that popped up in EastEnders or The Bill for years on end.
I did see Rory Kinnear about 20 years ago when he had hair and I thought of him as son of Roy (which to be fair, I still do).
And I saw future Oscar winning actress Olivia Coleman at a time when I only knew her as Bev from the adverts.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2020 5:18:41 GMT
Tom Hardy in Man of Mode at the national. Incredible stage presence and charisma. He was starting to be known a bit for british tv and small independent movies but It was just before his big break out roles
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Post by confessor on Apr 1, 2020 8:41:24 GMT
Well it appears that I saw Darren Boyd in Les Mis and Richard Armitage in Cats back in the 90s! Maybe it's common knowledge to others, but I had no idea that either were singers.
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Post by crabtree on Apr 1, 2020 8:45:16 GMT
Princeton, above, might also have seen a young Hugh grant at the Royal exchange, in An inspector calls.
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