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Post by longinthetooth on Jun 6, 2023 15:39:53 GMT
The original Godspell in 1970-something, obviously with David Essex, but also Jeremy Irons, Marti Webb, Julie Covington.
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Post by peggysue on Jun 6, 2023 16:04:38 GMT
The original Godspell in 1970-something, obviously with David Essex, but also Jeremy Irons, Marti Webb, Julie Covington. It opened in November 1971 and I saw it in 1973 😊 I still remember it as a great production!
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Post by theatreman on Jun 6, 2023 16:37:43 GMT
I had np idea Emily Blunt was in the Royal Family or Michelle Dockery in Pillar of the Community (was that the production with Damien Lewis at the National?) Yes it was NT production with Damien Lewis and Lesley Manville Some more Felicity Jones - The Chalk Garden Denise gough - By the Bog of cats Gugu Mbatha Raw - Hamlet Gaten Matarazzo - Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Broadway) Olly Alexander - Peter and Alice Rory Kinnear - Festen Tobias Menzies - Decade Corey Stoll - A View from the Bridge (Broadway)
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Post by Jan on Jun 6, 2023 17:06:56 GMT
Alex Jennings as Clown in Antony and Cleopatra (the one who brings in the asp) at Chichester in 1985. Michael Grandage was also in that, wasn't he? I know that both he & Jennings were also in The Scarlet Pimpernel that season. Yes Grandage was in it too. I also saw him as an actor in Edward II at the Royal Exchange in 1986 (directed by Nicholas Hytner - Iain Glen was in that too). In 1989 I saw Grandage in the sensational Nunn/McKellen Othello. On a similar theme, I saw Greg Doran as an actor in The Merchant of Venice and Julius Caesar in 1988 - the former featured Sher in the lead giving one of his most bizarre performances. Alex Jennings was quite possibly the best thing in that production of Antony and Cleopatra - just based on the text you'd think Diana Rigg and Denis Quilley were perfect casting but in practice there was literally no chemistry between them at all.
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Post by jek on Jun 8, 2023 7:57:02 GMT
Luke Thallon in Crazy For You at the Guildhall. Also Toheeb Jimoh in Fiddler on the Roof at the Guildhall. Both were very impressive but, of course, no more so than some of their student colleagues who haven't had similar breaks. Such a hard business to go in to.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2023 2:14:40 GMT
Lara Pulver in the Chicago touring ensemble about 2003. Victoria Hamilton-Barritt in Oh What A Night with Kid Creole in around 2001.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jun 25, 2023 22:27:46 GMT
Apparently Sarah Snook was in the Master Builder before Succession
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Post by sf on Jun 27, 2023 18:55:14 GMT
Andy Serkis (and Lorraine Ashbourne, who is now his wife) in the title role in a Hungarian musical called 'Doctor Heart' at the Royal Exchange in Manchester in 1991.
Also at the Royal Exchange, Kate Winslet as Geraldine in a production of 'What The Butler Saw' (1994), and Hugh Grant as Eric Birling in 'An Inspector Calls' (1986).
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Post by theatrefan62 on Jun 27, 2023 19:20:47 GMT
Tom Hardy in The Man Of Mode at the national.
The original cast of The History Boys
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Post by Jon on Jun 27, 2023 19:28:48 GMT
I'm a bit reluctant to say Tom Hardy because he wasn't exactly unknown when did The Man of Mode.
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Post by theatrefan62 on Jun 27, 2023 19:33:26 GMT
I'm a bit reluctant to say Tom Hardy because he wasn't exactly unknown when did The Man of Mode. It says 'hit the big time' rather than unknown though? Tom hardy at the time was only just starting to be known thanks to some TV work and that low budget film he did set in London with multiple actors (forget the name). But he certainly wasn't a star or famous, kind of proved by how badly the play sold.
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Post by profquatermass on Jun 29, 2023 1:05:46 GMT
Andy Serkis (and Lorraine Ashbourne, who is now his wife) in the title role in a Hungarian musical called 'Doctor Heart' at the Royal Exchange in Manchester in 1991. Also at the Royal Exchange, Kate Winslet as Geraldine in a production of 'What The Butler Saw' (1994), and Hugh Grant as Eric Birling in 'An Inspector Calls' (1986). I think you win this thread. Has Hugh Grant done any other stage acting?
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Post by sf on Jun 29, 2023 2:02:12 GMT
Andy Serkis (and Lorraine Ashbourne, who is now his wife) in the title role in a Hungarian musical called 'Doctor Heart' at the Royal Exchange in Manchester in 1991. Also at the Royal Exchange, Kate Winslet as Geraldine in a production of 'What The Butler Saw' (1994), and Hugh Grant as Eric Birling in 'An Inspector Calls' (1986). I think you win this thread. Has Hugh Grant done any other stage acting?
He'd done a few things at the Nottingham Playhouse and in fringe venues before that, but I think 'An Inspector Calls' was his last stage credit.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2023 10:17:40 GMT
Kate Winslet with one play to her name and so early in her career is a great one to have seen. But I admit I never knew Hugh had ever done any theatre work and his stage foray was well before Kate's so probably edges it. I wonder if the director of that play told a young Hugh to "Be yourself" and the rest is history.
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Post by alicechallice on Jun 29, 2023 11:26:48 GMT
Apparently Sarah Snook was in the Master Builder before Succession Yes, at the Old Vic in 2016 with Ralph Fiennes. At that point she'd just started graduating from Australian to U.S. film roles. I'm a bit reluctant to say Tom Hardy because he wasn't exactly unknown when did The Man of Mode. It says 'hit the big time' rather than unknown though? Tom hardy at the time was only just starting to be known thanks to some TV work and that low budget film he did set in London with multiple actors (forget the name). But he certainly wasn't a star or famous, kind of proved by how badly the play sold. He'd had one major film role playing the villain in Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) but I'd agree he hadn't hit the big time yet.
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