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Caught that same run!
A few years back, I saw a Broadway revival of ***Glengarry Glen Ross ***that featured the following TV stars:
Alan (MASH) Alda
Jeffrey (Hank, on The Larry Sanders Show) Tambor
Gordon (NYPD Blue) Clapp
Tom (Luke Duke, on ***Dukes of Hazzard ***) Wopat
In another Mamet play, A Life in the Theater, I saw Patrick (***Star Trek: ***The Next Generation) and TR (Grey’s Anatomy) Knight.
Who else… well, over the years, I’ve seen:
Michael (Law & Order) Moriarty in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Anthony (Psycho) Perkins in Equus.
Christopher Plummer, James Earl Jones and Diane Wiest in Othello.
Matthew Broderick in Master Harold & the Boys.
Geraldine Page & Amanda Plummer in Agnes of God.
Hugh Jackman, doing a one-man song and dance show.
Barbara (Mrs Barney Miller) Barrie in California Suite
Robert Preston in Sly Fox.
Ron Silver, Candice Bergen, Judith Ivey and Jerry Stiller in ***Hurlyburly ***
Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn (then, later, E.G. Marshal and Maureen Stapleton) in The Gin Game
Frank Langella in Dracula and Amadeus
One more…
Jeremy Irons in ***The Real Thing ***(Glenn Close was out sick, so I only saw her understudy).
Still another…
I didn’t see the famous 80s Broadway revival of Pirates of Penzance until late in its run., When I saw it, Gary Sandy (the program director on ***WKRP in Cincinnati ***) was the Pirate King.
The Best Man - saw it Friday. Loved it. (Plus, James Earl Jones, and Michael McKean)
It was a big broadway revival. 1998 I believe. Gershwin theatre. Great cast, lots of other familiar faces from tv but not stars. Spiner was John Adams and Hingle was Franklin. It’s one of my favorite plays and Spiner did a great job.
oops, no…
…The one I caught was Stewart and T.R. Knight
Kevin Spacey in Richard 111 at the Old Vic, not recommended.
Just saw Megan Hilty in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes today, and she *killed *. I was really impressed.
I have tickets to see Christopher Plummer at the Stratford Festival this summer. He is doing an “autobiographical journey through the literature that has stirred his imagination since youth.” I can hardly wait.
Oh yes, Simon Callow doing a whole slew of characters from Dickens in a one man show, simply brilliant.
I’m lucky enough to live just outside London, so In the last 12 months or so I’ve seen:
Benedict Cumberbatch/ Jonny Lee Miller In Frankenstein. A fabulous production. So fabulous in fact that I saw it 3 times.
Zoe Wanamaker in The Cherry Orchard
David Tennant and Catherine Tate in Much Ado About Nothing
Rory Kinnear in Hamlet
Joely Richardson in The Lady From the Sea
Kristin Scott Thomas in Betrayal
Peter Capaldi in The Ladykillers
Billie Piper/Tom Burke in Reasons to be Pretty
Joshua Jackson was okay but not particularly stellar. Somewhat ironically given the play, he didn’t seem very comfortable doing stagework following his lengthy run on television.
I have only seen two Broadway plays in my life and seeing a third ranks near the bottom of things I want to do. I saw “Mame” in the late 1960s although I think Angela Lansbury had left by then…Janis Paige sounds familiar.
The other one was “Deathtrap” in 1980 when I was given free tickets. That starred John Callum and Marian Seldes.
Looking up both in IMDB the supporting cast could have had more famous TV stars. Bea Arthur is listed in “Mame” and Victor Garber for “Deathtrap” but I don’t know if they were in the play when I saw them.
Tons of them.
I, too, have seen William Daniels and Howard da Silva in 1776. I’ve also probably seen much of the cast from the movie on stage, since many went from the Broadway production to the film.
My first Broadway show was Hello, Doly!, with Ginger Rogers (!) in the lead.
I saw Fiddler on the Roof several times. Although when I first saw it, it had Harry Goz in the lead, I eventually saw it on stage with both Zero Mostel and Topol.
I saw Patrick MacNee in Sleuth.
I saw Lynn Redgrave in Shaw’s Saint Joan at New York’s Circle in the Square. A then-unknown Armin Shimerman was also in the cast.
I saw Yul Brynner in a revival of The King and I and Richard Harris as King Arthur in Camelot, but Richard Kiley was sick the day I went to Man of la Mancha.
I’ve seen Frank Langella in Amadeus and John Wood in Sherlock Holmes.
I’ve seen Imogene Coca in On the 20th Century and Fred Gwynne in Peter Shaeffer’s forgotten mystery/comedy Whodunit?
I saw one of the Sesame Street players (Norther Calloway, I think) in the “Leading Player” role initiated by Ben Vereen in Pippin.
I’ve seen Nicol Williamson as Henry VIII in Richard Rogers’ last musical, Rex.
I saw Raul Julia as Dracula – he was the eplacem,ent for Frank Langella.
I’ve seen a great many singers and comedians in concert, but not in plays. And no doubt I’ve seen many who were unknowns at the time .