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Post by critchyboy on Jul 11, 2021 12:53:13 GMT
Some of those already mentioned:
Angela Lansbury - Blithe Spirit
Glenn Close - Sunset Boulevard
Imelda Staunton - Gypsy
Also, Danny Devito and Richard Griffiths - The Sunshine Boys
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Post by oxfordsimon on Jul 11, 2021 20:33:53 GMT
I've seen Biggins in his pants... Have you got over the shock yet? Much mind bleach needed |
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Post by danb on Jul 11, 2021 20:47:02 GMT
Madonna in ‘Up For Grabs’ 💩, Matthew Perry, Minnie Driver & Hank Azaria in ‘Sexual Perversity in Chicago’, Dame Judi in ‘A Little Night Music’ and Maggie Smith in ‘Talking Heads
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Post by robertb213 on Jul 11, 2021 22:20:13 GMT
Probably Glenn Close in Sunset, Ian McKellen in his recent tour, Danny DeVito in The Sunshine Boys and Bradley Cooper in The Elephant Man.
Also Kylie, Mariah and Gladys Knight if we're venturing off the theatrical stage 💖
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Post by theatreian on Jul 12, 2021 14:00:23 GMT
Forgot to mention Cher and Bette Midler at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace Las Vegas.(Went twice in one year!!) In my extravagant past when I earned decent money!
You'd never guess I was gay would you!!
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Post by Dr Tom on Jul 12, 2021 14:24:01 GMT
I've seen Biggins in his pants... It could be worse. He could have been in someone else's pants... I sat behind Biggins at the Southwark Playhouse once. He was talking to everyone who wanted to meet him and he seemed lovely. |
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Post by vickyg on Jul 12, 2021 14:35:52 GMT
Nicole Kidman in Photograph 51
Maggie Smith in A German Life
Gillian Anderson in everything she's done on stage in London
Vanessa Redgrave, fleetingly, in The Inheritance
Juliet Stevenson and Lia Williams in a number of things
Gina McKee in Boudicca
Sienna Miller in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Emma Thompson in Sweeny Todd
I absolutely hated Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, so much so that I don't have any objective view of the performances and Vanessa Redgrave really could have been anyone but other than that I don't think I've been disappointed by a 'star' on stage from the above list. Gillian Anderson blew me away in Streetcar, but I love her and am 100% biased!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2021 14:47:13 GMT
On one hand I would say Ian McKellen on his one-man show tour…the other Freddie Flintoff in Fat Friends The Musical.
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Post by CG on the loose on Jul 12, 2021 16:15:27 GMT
My entirely subjective criteria for this are 'theatre royalty' and actors I know primarily for their film/TV work (and I'm bound to have forgotten some):
Stockard Channing - Apologia
Glenn Close - Sunset
Tyne Daly - Master Class
Charles Dance - Shadowlands
Dame Judi Dench - with Ben Wishaw in Peter and Alice and with Ken Brannagh in The Winter's Tale (and many years ago in Cymbeline)
Danny DeVito and Richard Griffith - Sunshine Boys
Rupert Everett - Judas Kiss, Amadeus
Joseph Fiennes - Ross
Kelsey Grammer - Big Fish
Sheila Hancock - with James Nesbitt in This Is My Family
Nicole Kidman - Photograph 51
Penelope Keith - Mrs Pat, The Chalk Garden
Jude Law - Henry V
Sir Ian McKellan - Waiting for Godot, King Lear, 80th Birthday tour (and Hamlet in Windsor if it's not COVID hit!)
Alfred Molina - Red
Mark Rylance - Jerusalem, Nice Fish, Farinelli and the King
Richard Schiff - Smash!
Juliet Stevenson - Wings
Kathleen Turner - Bakersfield Mist, Finding My Voice
Julie Walters - The Last of the Haussmans
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Post by steve10086 on Jul 12, 2021 16:58:05 GMT
I've seen Biggins in his pants... It could be worse. He could have been in someone else's pants... I sat behind Biggins at the Southwark Playhouse once. He was talking to everyone who wanted to meet him and he seemed lovely. Was also lovely when he was in the audience at Regents Park when I was there. Again, happy to talk and take pics etc. Very nice. |
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Post by alece10 on Jul 12, 2021 17:33:15 GMT
I remember at a press night once Paul O'Grady and EP were sat together, Biggin came in expecting to be sat with them but he was seated the other side of the theatre. He was not happy.
Saying that he is a really nice man and always very friendly.
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Post by crabtree on Jul 13, 2021 9:05:39 GMT
A casual supper with Rudolph Nureyev after a performance was pretty special. Of all the names listed above, I'd loved to have Ethel Merman.
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Post by mrbluesky on Jul 13, 2021 9:50:57 GMT
Seen quite a few celebs on stage during my theatre-going life, but some of the biggest were definitely:
Dame Maggie Smith in A German Life
Dame Angela Lansbury in Blithe Spirit
Dame Judi Dench and Ken Branagh in A Winter's Tale
Sir Ian McKellan in his one man 80th Birthday Tour
Sir Derek Jacobi in Romeo and Juliet
Dame Emma Thompson in Sweeney Todd
Patti LuPone in Company
Probably think of more later!
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Post by princeton on Jul 13, 2021 11:03:02 GMT
Meryl Streep as Arkadina in The Seagull at the Delacorte Theatre. She did a cartwheel!
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Post by bee on Jul 13, 2021 19:49:49 GMT
Bradley Cooper is probably the biggest "star" I've seen in the theatre. In terms of pop/rock possibly Freddie Mercury or Bruce Sprinsteen. I've seen The Rolling Stones but that was in the middle of a field and they were a good 100 yards away so I'm not sure that counts.
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Post by NeilVHughes on Jul 13, 2021 20:28:00 GMT
The first time I really felt that I was in the presence of pop/rock royalty was Roger Taylor when his solo band The Cross played Rock City in Nottingham in 1988. Believe it was a Wednesday night and there were only a few hundred people there and when he played some of his Queen songs it was magical.
This was someone who I’d only seen in a stadium gig before, Queen were one of my seminal bands from the time I first heard Bohemian Rhapsody on the radio as a six year old and more or less stole my brothers copy of A Night at the Opera LP which I played it to death and still love to this day.
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Post by alnoor on Jul 13, 2021 20:30:50 GMT
Julia Roberts, Bradley Cooper and Paul Rudd in Three Days of Rain
Frances McDormand and Morgan Freeman in The Country Girl
But the best
Paul Newman in Our Town
All of the above on Broadway
Those were the days for me
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 14, 2021 7:50:47 GMT
Saw Spacey a good few times at the Old Vic
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Post by digipal on Jul 14, 2021 11:27:06 GMT
Fay Dunaway - Circe & Bravo
Patti LuPone - Sunset
Madonna - Up For Grabs
Glenn Close - Sunset
Bette Midler - Hello Dolly
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Post by alece10 on Jul 14, 2021 15:51:41 GMT
Saw Spacey a good few times at the Old Vic And lending his phone out on Clapham Common! He was always hanging around the bar at the Old Vic. |
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Post by tmesis on Jul 14, 2021 19:16:20 GMT
It's not until. I started thinking of this that I realised quite how many 'big names' I've seen so here goes:
Hollywood/Broadway
Matt Damon
Casey Affleck
Summer Phoenix
Glenn Close
Betty Buckley
Patti LuPone
Mandy Patinkin
Elaine Stritch
Cate Blanchett
Bryan Cranston
Nathan Lane
British (male)
Derek Jacobi
Ian Mckellen
Jeremy Irons
Jude Law
Ben Wishaw
Anthony Andrews
Kenneth Branagh
Taron Egerton
Ralph Fiennes
Michael Gambon
Martin Clunes
Richard Briers
Paul Eddington
Anthony Sher
Jonathan Pryce
British (female)
Judi Dench
Maggie Smith
Eileen Atkins
Diana Rigg
Penelope Keith
Julie Walters
Helen Mirren
Victoria Wood (as Mrs Overall!)
Zoe Wanamaker
Anne Reid
Penelope Wilton
Emma Thompson
Vanessa Redgrave
Harriet Walter
Olivia Coleman
Fiona Shaw
Comedy 'ledgends' seen in panto or 'end of the pier' shows as a child.
Morecambe and Wise
Les Dawson
Ken Dodd
Hilda Baker
Jimmy Jewel
Bob Monkhouse
Jimmy Tarbuck
Opera Singers
Luciano Pavarotti
Placido Domingo
Jose Carreras
Montserrat Caballe
Kiri Te Kanawa
Joan Sutherland
Bryn Terfel
Janet Baker (and loads more)
Ballet dancers
Darcey Bussell
Carlos Acosta
Merle Park
Wayne Eagling
Anthony Dowell (and loads more)
International conductors
Leonard Bernstein
John Barbirolli
Georg Solti
Daniel Barenboim
Carlos Kleiber
Herbert Von Karajan (and others)
There's bound to to be a few I've missed...
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Post by daisy24601 on Jul 14, 2021 21:21:26 GMT
I haven't seen many. Probably Kelsey Grammer is the most famous.
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Post by BoOverall on Jul 16, 2021 6:56:52 GMT
Somehow feeling I need to exclude Caprice in Rent……shudders at the memory…..my fondest memories include:
- Saint Patti in Sunset and Gypsy (how I wish I had my camera!)
- Glenn Close in Sunset
- Liza Minelli in Victor, Victoria
- Judi Dench in A Little Night Music
- Caroline O’Connor at Charing Cross - the theatre, not in Gregg’s on the station
- Maggie Smith in my hubby’s parents’ garden for his dad’s retirement bash. Not a theatrical performance, but that was the first time I had been really star-struck!.
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Post by theatrefan77 on Jul 16, 2021 9:07:33 GMT
Just a few of my favourites:
Rita Moreno - Sunset Boulevard Richard Dreyfuss & Marsha Mason - The Prisoner of Second Avenue Jessica Lange - A Streetcar Named Desire Glenn Close - A Streetcar Named Desire Cate Blanchett - Plenty Ian Mckellen - King Lear Jeremy Irons & Leslie Manville - Long Day's Journey Into Night Kenneth Branagh & Judy Dench - A Winter's Tale Ralph Fiennes - Man and Superman Jonathan Pryce - The Goat or Who's Silvia? Maggie Smith - Lady in the Van Julie Walters - All My Sons Helen Mirren - The Audience Vanessa Redgrave - The Year of Magical Thinking Liza Minnelli at Royal Albert Hall
Some of these actors I have seen more than once, I've just selected the performances I enjoyed more. |
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Post by mrbluesky on Jul 16, 2021 9:41:32 GMT
Just a few of my favourites:
Rita Moreno - Sunset Boulevard Richard Dreyfuss & Marsha Mason - The Prisoner of Second Avenue Jessica Lange - A Streetcar Named Desire Glenn Close - A Streetcar Named Desire Cate Blanchett - Plenty Ian Mckellen - King Lear Jeremy Irons & Leslie Manville - Long Day's Journey Into Night Kenneth Branagh & Judy Dench - A Winter's Tale Ralph Fiennes - Man and Superman Jonathan Pryce - The Goat or Who's Silvia? Maggie Smith - Lady in the Van Julie Walters - All My SonsHelen Mirren - The Audience Vanessa Redgrave - The Year of Magical Thinking Liza Minnelli at Royal Albert Hall
Some of these actors I have seen more than once, I've just selected the performances I enjoyed more. Julie Walters must have been great in All My Sons!! Insanely jealous you got to see her! |
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