Sweeney Hyde
|
Famous People You Have Seen in ShowsI saw the "Famous People Who Have Seen You Perform" thread and I thought, "Why not?" so here it is...what famous people have you seen in various shows?
I have seen:
Edmund Lynsdeck-The Starkeeper in Carousel
Jeff Goldbloom-Herold Hill in The Music Man
Tom Bosley-Maurice in Beauty and the Beast
George Hearn-The Wizard in Wicked
Alfred Molina-Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof
Cathy Rigby-Peter Pan and Seussical
Georgia Engel-The Drowsy Chaperone
Idina Menzel-Wicked
John Vickery-Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady
I proably forgot several...
|
krisavalon
|
When I was a kid, I was dragged against my will to see Damn Yankees with Jerry Lewis as the devil. I didn't want to go, but now I cherish that memory. He was brilliant.
|
SuperKabob
|
Cristine Baranski--Mame
Brad Oscar-- Devil in Damn Yankees and Emcee in Cabaret
Harriet Harris-- Gloria in Mame
George Wendt-- Twelve Angry Men
Richard Thomas-- Twelve Angry Men
Yes, I do go to the Kennedy Center quite a lot 
|
Amber
|
Chita Rivera- "The Dancer's Life" (this made my entire life)
Bebe Neuwirth- "Chicago"
Rita Wilson- "Chicago"
Norbert Leo Butz- "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"
Joanna Gleason- "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"
Bernadette Peters- "Gypsy"
|
what_the_heck013
|
I'm going to list people who are not famous for usually doing theatre...
Kelsey Grammer and Christine Baranksi in Sweeney Todd
Molly Ringwald in Sweet Charity
That Chick from American Idol in Joseph
Christy Carlson Romano in BatB
Wayne Brady in Chicago
Laurie Metcalf in All My Sons
...I'm sure there's more.
|
Matthew
|
| what_the_heck013 wrote: |
Molly Ringwald in Sweet Charity
|
how did that go for you?
|
Salome
|
weird topic considering. Ive seen too many to mention..over 50 i'm sure.. .but the highlights have been
John Cullum (3 times)
Richard Harris in Camelot
John Lithgow in DRS
Anthony Newley in Stop the World
George Hearn ..twice
Victor Garbe in Damn Yankees
Frank Langella in Present Laughter
Jim Dale ..3 times
Joanna Gleason ..twice
Brian Stokes Mitchell in Spiderwoman
Howard McGillin in Spiderwoman
Vanessa Wlliams in Spiderwoman
|
what_the_heck013
|
It's a good thing I'm still a Molly Ringwald fan...
kidding. She was actually not that bad.
|
Matthew
|
I heard from the best critics that she blew HUGE chunks.
|
bwayluvor31
|
Patti LuPone - Sweeney Todd
Sutton Foster - Drowsey Chaparone
Michael Cerveris - Sweeney Todd
Idina Menzel - Wicked
Jeremey Irons - Camelot
John Lithgow - My Fair Lady
Melissa Errico - TSOM, MFL, Camelot
So many more to see though!
|
Matthew
|
My Top Two Favorites:
Christopher Seiber in Chicago
Shirley Jones in 42nd Street
Least Favorites:
Idina in Wicked
Usher in Chicago.
|
BEaSTARandSINGlove
|
Diana Degarmo (American Idol) in Hairspray
Cathy Rigby in Peter Pan
Frenchie Davis (also American Idol) in Rent
Joey McIntyre in Wicked
|
shakalakababy
|
here's what i can remember
Kevin Spacey-Richard II
Rita Wilson- Chicago
cathy rigby- peter pan
Jenna Leigh Green- Wicked (sorry but i loved sabrina the teenage witch so i thought it was pretty exciting)
Hugh Panaro- Lestat (heh)
I'm sure there are more but i can't think of them right now
|
happyguava
|
Anthony Warlow - Annie
Topol - Fiddler on the Roof
|
Quique
|
- Chita Rivera - Kiss Of the Spider Woman
- David Alan Grier - A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum
- Ned Beatty - Showboat
- Cloris Leachman - Showboat
- Jasmine Guy - Chicago
- Bebe Neuwirth - Chicago
- Marilu Henner - Chicago
- Christine Baranski - Sweeney Todd
- Kelsey Grammer - Sweeney Todd
- Neil Patrick Harris - Rent/Sweeney Todd
- Sutton Foster - Les Misérables
- Gary Beach - Les Misérables
- Kay Cole - Les Misérables
- Patrick Wilson - Carousel
- Savion Glover - Jelly's Last Jam
- Maurice Hines - Jelly's Last Jam
- Faye Dunaway - Master Class
- Petula Clark - Blood Brothers/Sunset Blvd.
- David Cassidy - Blood Brothers
- Glen Close - Sunset Blvd.
- George Hearn - Sunset Blvd.
- Judy Kuhn - Sunset Blvd.
- Sarah Brightman - The Music Of Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Betty Buckley - The Music Of Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Patti LuPone - Matters Of the Heart
- Brian Stokes Mitchell - Ragtime
- Original cast of Rent (with the exception of Idina Menzel; she had already left by then. And I saw Daphne when she reprised her role on tour in 1999. I saw the rest of the OBC together at the Nederlander in 1997).
- Roger Bart - The Secret Garden
- Raul Esparza - Evita
I'm sure there's more. I'll post when I remember.
|
Frostbunny2
|
John Barrowman & Sally Anne Triplett - "Anything Goes"
Dannii Minnouge "Notre damme de paris" (she was great! and
really short lol)
Suzanne Shaw (from the ex pop "band" Hearsay - "Rocky horror show" & I also saw the guy - can't remember his name - who played Neil in "the young ones"
Not many - but they were all really good
|
Salome
|
| bwayluvor31 wrote: | Patti LuPone - Sweeney Todd
Sutton Foster - Drowsey Chaparone
Michael Cerveris - Sweeney Todd
Idina Menzel - Wicked
Jeremey Irons - Camelot
John Lithgow - My Fair Lady
Melissa Errico - TSOM, MFL, Camelot
So many more to see though! |
you lucky bastard..you got to see Jeremy in Camelot.
Missy Errico says he is so fun to work with troo.
|
AllThatJazzHands
|
Jeremy Irons? I would have DIED. He's amazing! I've never heard him sing, though. How was he?
|
Salome
|
I have Jeremy on 2 recordings My H\Fair Lady and Godspell. he is a decent singer.,.but an amazing man at interpreting a song.
|
julycoaron
|
Here are just a few:
Jerry Orbach, Gwen Verdon and Chita Rivera in "Chicago" (Broadway 1976)
Sam Waterston as "Hamlet" (Broadway 1976) - Mandy Patinkin played Fortinbras
Charlton Heston and Vanessa Redgrave in "Macbeth" (Los Angeles 1972)
Charlton Heston and Deborah Kerr in "Long Day's Journey Into Night" (Los Angeles 1973)
Len Cariou and Angela Lansbury in "Sweeney Todd" (Broadway 1979)
Robert Preston and Bernadette Peters in "Mack and Mabel" (Los Angeles 1974)
John Raitt in "Shenandoah" (Los Angeles 1978)
Idina Menzel in "Wicked" (Broadway 2004)
Sutton Foster in "Little Women" (Broadway 2004)
Sutton Foster in "The Drowsy Chaperone" (Broadway 2006)
Jonathan Pryce, Norbert Leo Butz and Joanna Gleason in "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" (Broadway 2006)
Kelsey Grammer in "Arms and the Man" (San Diego 1978)
Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau and Maureen Stapleton in "Juno and the Paycock" (Los Angeles - mid-1970's)
Robert Morse and Larry Kert in "Sugar" (Los Angeles - 1972)
Anthony Perkins in "Equus" (Broadway 1976)
Anthony Hopkins in "Equus" (Los Angeles 1977)
Enough for now.
Brian
|
DramaRobin2002
|
Just naming the ones who people outside the theater world would know:
Lucy Lawless- Grease
Melanie Brown (a.k.a. Scary Spice)- Rent
Roger Daltry- A Christmas Carol
Wayne Brady- Chicago
Joey McIntyre- Wicked
Ben Vereen- Wicked
Jamie-Lynn DiScala- Beauty and the Beast
There have probably been a few more that just aren't coming to mind right now.
|
Roger's Chica
|
Christopher Plummer in King Lear - Stratford 2002
And after that... anyone else isn't really important
|
Quique
|
- Vanessa Williams - Into the Woods
- Ted Neeley - Jesus Christ Superstar
- Carl Anderson Jesus Christ Superstar
|
bwayluvor31
|
| AllThatJazzHands wrote: | | Jeremy Irons? I would have DIED. He's amazing! I've never heard him sing, though. How was he? |
He was a great King Arthur! Singing was okay, but that's an aspect of the part (Richard Harris, Richard, Burton, etc.), but the acting was fabulous!
Salome, where did Errico talk about working with him? Is it still accessable?
I forgot to add two:
Rachel York - TSOM
Lisa Vroman - POTO
|
Marcellus
|
Julie Andrews, Tony Roberts, Rachel York in Victor, Victoria - Chicago, 1995
Michael Damien in Joseph..., Los Angeles, 1993
Imogene Coca in Plaza Suite, Va Beach VA, 1980's
Mickey Rooney and Ann Miller in Sugar Babies, Norfolk, VA 1980's
Victor Garber in Of Thee I Sing, NYC 2006
Bob Hope, Jay Leno, Mercedes Ruehl and Vince Gill at Tonight Show taping, Los Angeles, 1993.
Noel Paul Stookey in PBS telethon, Norfolk, VA 2004
Monty Hall at Video Village taping, NYC, 1961
Kitty Carlisle Hart at I've Got a Secret taping, NYC, circa 1959
Symphony concert appearances by Mel Torme, Cab Calloway and Donald O'Conner.
|
phantomphan85
|
Adam Garcia, Miriam Margoyles - Wicked
Ruthie Henshall - Chicago
Bonnie Langford - Guys and Dolls
That's about it, really.
|
Roger's Chica
|
Oh, I forgot.
I've also seen Morgan Fairchild naked. (aka: in "The Graduate")
|
lucebarker
|
I Toured in Annie with Su Pollard. She's a Legend!
xxxxxxx
|
Jordan
|
For amusements sakes, may I mention that I *didn't* see Lea Salonga in Les Mis on Broadway in Feb 1993 as although she was billed, there was an understudy.
I also *didn't* see Sarah Brightman in Aspects of Love because she failed to get to the theatre on time and after delaying the show by half an hour, they put the understudy on.
I've seen loads of minor famous people on stage though. Can't be bothered with listing all of them.
|
Salome
|
GAYBOY..IF YOU ALMOST SAW SARH IN aSPECTS..DIDNT YOU SEE THE LEGENDARY jOHN cULLUM IN THE SAME SHOW?
(damned caps too lazy to go back)
|
Sweeney Hyde
|
^^HEAR HEAR!
|
Jordan
|
| Salome wrote: | GAYBOY..IF YOU ALMOST SAW SARH IN aSPECTS..DIDNT YOU SEE THE LEGENDARY jOHN cULLUM IN THE SAME SHOW?
(damned caps too lazy to go back) |
Umm... Possibly. I dunno where all the programmes and stuff are so I can't check. (They're probably at my ex's) I didn't like Aspects anyway! 
|
Lazarus (Adam G)
|
I must be going nuts, but I skimmed the Social Club page quickly and thought this topic was called "Famous people you'd take a shot at".
|
Sweeney Hyde
|
^^lol...maybe that would make a good thread...haha!
|
Salome
|
| GayBoy wrote: | | Salome wrote: | GAYBOY..IF YOU ALMOST SAW SARH IN aSPECTS..DIDNT YOU SEE THE LEGENDARY jOHN cULLUM IN THE SAME SHOW?
(damned caps too lazy to go back) |
Umm... Possibly. I dunno where all the programmes and stuff are so I can't check. (They're probably at my ex's) I didn't like Aspects anyway! |
even if you didntl ike aspects...you'd know if you saw Cullum! he's a legend.
|
Jordan
|
| Salome wrote: | | GayBoy wrote: | | Salome wrote: | GAYBOY..IF YOU ALMOST SAW SARH IN aSPECTS..DIDNT YOU SEE THE LEGENDARY jOHN cULLUM IN THE SAME SHOW?
(damned caps too lazy to go back) |
Umm... Possibly. I dunno where all the programmes and stuff are so I can't check. (They're probably at my ex's) I didn't like Aspects anyway! |
even if you didntl ike aspects...you'd know if you saw Cullum! he's a legend. |
Umm... It was a really long time ago, I didn't want to see the show in the first place, the show then bored the socks off me. The extra delay at the beginning waiting for Ms Brightman's non-appearance didn't help. So no, I still don't know if I saw him 
|
Salome
|
Aspects is one of the only Webber shows i like. thank god I didnt see Brightman though.
|
RyanJ
|
Rosie O'Donnell and Harvey Fierstein in Fiddler on the Roof was pretty amazing.
|
Sweeney Hyde
|
| Salome wrote: | | Aspects is one of the only Webber shows i like. thank god I didnt see Brightman though. |
What about Phantom? Sunset BLVD.? Evita? I can perfectly understand not likeing Cats and By Jeeves and Starlight Express...but why only Aspects?
|
Marcellus
|
Susan Strasberg and Peggy Cass in national tour of Agnes of God. I forget who played Agnes.
|
broadwaybaby124
|
John Cullum-Old Max in "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"
Sutton Foster-Janet in "Drowsy Chaperone"
Diana DeGarmo-Penny in "Hairspray"
|
Eponine93
|
| Quote: | | Rosie O'Donnell and Harvey Fierstein in Fiddler on the Roof was pretty amazing. |
Ew. Being in the same building with both of them was pretty amazing but their performances weren't the greatest. Harvey was a pretty good Tevye, but Rosie was terrible! She cannot sing. They didn't exactly have good chemistry either. It was a wierd pairing of famous names. Whenever I see Harvey I think Edna from Hairspray. Edna and Tevye do not go well together. It slightly ruins the show. It's not his fault, but I feel like a really great Tevye isn't very good at any other roles because they just need to scream "I'M A TEVYE" all over. You can't act Tevye. You need to BE Tevye. Which Harvey really wasn't.
Our row XX seats didn't make his acting any better. I could see his gut but not his face.
I've seen some people who are famous around theatre but not in other places like Roger Bart when he returned to Leo in the Producers. Gary Beach was in that same production and he was absolutely amazing (as was Roger) I also got to meet Roger after and go onstage which, needless to say, was freaking incredible.
I also saw Laura Benanti live a lot before she was famous. Unfortunately, I was about three at the time so I don't remember her performances in Into the Woods or Evita at the local community theatre. I saw her in the Wedding Singer (all original cast) and that was great, though.
|
BroadwayBaby0202
|
I saw Harvey Fierstein and Dick Latessa in the Vegas cast of Hairspray last spring.. that was really cool considering they were in the OBC and everything.
|
Paula74
|
Richard Harris in the tour of Camelot
Gabriel Byrne in A Touch of the Poet
Michael Crawford giving a curtain call speech at the record-breaking performance of The Phantom of The Opera
Patti Lupone in Sweeney Todd
|
