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| Posted by: PurpleMoney 09:44 am EST 03/03/19 | |
| In reply to: Actors Before They Were Somebodies - winters 08:10 am EST 03/03/19 | |
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| Okay, I'll share a memory. It was November 2001 and we were in London to see The Royal Family with Dame Judi Dench. At the stage door I was stunned that Judi was so talkative and taking every moment to talk with me and my friend. Maybe it was because we're Americans and she wanted to know more about how New Yorkers are "holding up" after 9/11. She stop for just a moment to introduce us to young actress in the cast, hurriedly leaving the theatre, to tell us that she has an enormous career ahead. Emily Blunt was very shy, smiled, and got on a motorcycle and took off. | |
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| re: Actors Before They Were Somebodies | |
| Posted by: tmdonahue (tmdonahue@yahoo.com) 11:29 am EST 03/03/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Actors Before They Were Somebodies - PurpleMoney 09:44 am EST 03/03/19 | |
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| Let's see if dementia has set in yet. I remember Audra McDonald in the original Broadway "Master Class" and looking up her bio at intermission. She was impressive in a small part. I remember "True West" downtown brought from Steppenwolf with those unknowns as the leads, Gary Sinise and John Malkovich. I remember Bobby Steggart in a small role in the revival of "110 in the Shade." He made an impact. I remember seeing Joan Allen in Steppenwolf's "Reckless" in Chicago when it was performing in some basement. Also Boyd Gaines. (Although by that time, I may have already been impressed by him in "The Heidi Chronicles.") I remember Celia Keenan-Bolger, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Josh Gad in the "25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee." (Gad was a replacement in the role.) So many actors from "History Boys": James Cordon, Dominic Cooper, and Russell Tovey. And this probably doesn't count because she already had a TV series role by that time (in "Six Feet Under"), but I really remember Lauren Ambrose as Juliet in the Central Park production. She had many qualities of character that she brought to Eliza Doolittle much later. |
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| re: Actors Before They Were Somebodies | |
| Posted by: CatrionaK 09:24 pm EST 03/03/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Actors Before They Were Somebodies - tmdonahue 11:29 am EST 03/03/19 | |
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| And Oscar Isaac playing Romeo opposite Ambrose. | |
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| re: Actors Before They Were Somebodies | |
| Posted by: writerkev 12:44 pm EST 03/03/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Actors Before They Were Somebodies - tmdonahue 11:29 am EST 03/03/19 | |
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| Audra and Boyd were already Tony Award winners by the time you were noticing them “before they were somebodies” : ) | |
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| re: Actors Before They Were Somebodies | |
| Posted by: tmdonahue (tmdonahue@yahoo.com) 03:04 pm EST 03/03/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Actors Before They Were Somebodies - writerkev 12:44 pm EST 03/03/19 | |
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| I better see a neurologist. | |
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| re: Actors Before They Were Somebodies | |
| Posted by: Pokernight 10:45 am EST 03/03/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Actors Before They Were Somebodies - PurpleMoney 09:44 am EST 03/03/19 | |
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| My favorite memory is seeing Julie Harris in "Little Moon of Alban", but being mesmerized by the actor who played her brother. His time on stage was brief and he was killed off in the first act. His name is/was Robert Redford. | |
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| re: Actors Before They Were Somebodies | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 12:37 pm EST 03/03/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Actors Before They Were Somebodies - Pokernight 10:45 am EST 03/03/19 | |
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| Mid 1980's, a Boston sit-down production of Little Shop Of Horrors, at the Charles Playhouse (in the good old days when their upstairs mainstage was still used for plays and musicals, touring and local - before it became the permanent home of Blue Man Group). I was just out of college at the time. The fantastic young actress playing Audrey...a yet-unknown Carolee Carmello. And although I remember the whole production being very solid and wonderful (I must have seen it 6 or 7 times lol), Carolee was most definitely a star to be. |
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| re: Actors Before They Were Somebodies | |
| Posted by: EveryLittleChore 12:59 am EST 03/04/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Actors Before They Were Somebodies - Chromolume 12:37 pm EST 03/03/19 | |
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| 1968: Sandy Duncan in Your Own Thing at the Orpheum downtown. Nothing could hide her star quality. | |
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| Sandy Duncan in commercial | |
| Posted by: counterweight 10:40 am EST 03/04/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Actors Before They Were Somebodies - EveryLittleChore 12:59 am EST 03/04/19 | |
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| I remember seeing her in this bank commercial in the mid 60'sor so and she really stood out in my mind even back then. (Same deal with Bernadette Peters in a Playtex commercial, but that is another story, also found in the depths of the YoutTube vault.) | |
| Link | Sandy Duncan in UCB Commercial |
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| Posted by: KingSpeed 04:01 pm EST 03/04/19 | |
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| Nice!!! | |
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| Nathan Lane | |
| Posted by: Whistler 04:56 pm EST 03/03/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Actors Before They Were Somebodies - Chromolume 12:37 pm EST 03/03/19 | |
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| Nathan Lane in the George C. Scott-led production of Coward's "Present Laughter." Scott was terrific and gave a level of performance to the lead that I never saw other actors do. But Lane caught our attention. | |
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| re: Nathan Lane | |
| Posted by: PurpleMoney 08:52 pm EST 03/04/19 | |
| In reply to: Nathan Lane - Whistler 04:56 pm EST 03/03/19 | |
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| I saw Nathan twice in Merlin. January and February 1983. The second time I brought some college friend to witness the brilliant Nathan Lane. He was good the second time but his show stopping song on the row boat was cut. Damn you Doug! I'm just assuming Doug had something to do with it. Or maybe it was Chita? | |
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| Over Here | |
| Posted by: Andie 01:10 pm EST 03/04/19 | |
| In reply to: Nathan Lane - Whistler 04:56 pm EST 03/03/19 | |
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| When I was very young, my mother took me to "Over Here" and I was enthralled with a cute young boy in the cast - John Travolta. | |
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| In London | |
| Posted by: BigM 02:49 pm EST 03/06/19 | |
| In reply to: Over Here - Andie 01:10 pm EST 03/04/19 | |
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| I'm not very good at this; when I've seen unknown actors and predicted they would someday be stars, they all sank like stones. But when I was in London in the late 70's, I saw an actress at the Royal Shakespeare Company, a short, stumpy woman who looked like she could transform herself into anything. The right wig, and she became a grande dame in The Comedy of Errors and The Way of The World. Dressed in black with a black scarf in her hair, she became an extraordinary Lady Macbeth. Her name was completely new to me, and she was unknown over here: Judi Dench. | |
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