Top 10 Actors You Didn't Know Were Famous on Broadway

[@MsMojo]

Which of these actors do you wish you could see on Broadway? Let us know below, and check out our video of the Top 10 Broadway Shows That Changed Theater FOREVER: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6HYf6mJbbqtjtksi=cULpQuuCQJZpzaye

[@linusholm3806]

My wish list: Top 10 disney junior shows Top 10 unimportant pokemon episodes (no catching new pokemon, no evolving, no gym/pokemon leage battle, no meating new rivle, etc) Top 10 underrated animated disney series Best disney movie per decade Top 10 disney reprise songs (deleted included) Top 10 disney villains that deserved a villain song Top 10 disney couples with a tough start (Both movies and tv-series) Top 10 what have I done moment excluding disney and pixar Top 10 disney movie ideas (by you) 👍😉

[@editionprimavista4937]

NOT SJP, for sure.

[@peggyknecht5551]

My wish list: 1.Jason Alexander 2. Jane krakowski 3. Matthew Broderick Who I've seen on Broadway: 1. Micheal Crawford 2. Jerry Mcquire 3.F. Murray Abraham (Scrooge in A Christmas Carol: the musical)

[@gingergasparek4855]

Love them all!!! =D

[@elvismansoncpa]

People who know Jerry Orbach from Dirty Dancing and Law&Order would be amazed that fans of Broadway musicals already knew him well in The Fantasticks and Chicago.

[@PecanSandees23]

And going way back, Promises, Promises.

[@PecanSandees23]

Going back many years, he was also in Promises, Promises.

[@christinebutler7630]

And 42nd Street

[@RagingCanuck]

The lights on Broadway were dimmed when Jerry Orbach died, in honour of his outstanding contribution to the genre.

[@Peter-z9t]

With one of the most glorious singing voices in musical theater history, Jerry Orbach created the role of El Gallo in "The Fantasticks" and was the first to sing the classic opening song "Try to Remember." The 1960 show, debuting at the off-Broadway Sullivan Street Theater in Greenwich Village, went on to be the longest running musical in U.S. history.

[@trinaq]

Anna Kendrick was destined for a career in music. At least her popularity with the "Pitch Perfect" franchise has saved her from only being known for "Twilight", which most people have likely forgotten that she appeared in.

[@cailieisidro5758]

Another role that isn’t really music but I guess what comic fans would know, she’s Stacey Pilgrim

[@tjohns25]

I don't think they've forgotten she was in Twilight. I think they wish she had been casted as Bella.

[@bricktam]

I love that Jason Alexander is finally getting recognition for his singing and dancing. In the earlier Seinfeld seasons, his character would sing.

[@kamsismith]

James Earl Jones as he started his career with theater.

[@trinaq]

Rest in Peace, James Earl Jones, he brought us some iconic characters. Rewatching "The Lion King" after his passing will be even more heartbreaking now. 💔

[@kamsismith]

I was shocked when my brother told me. Although I hated the Coming to America sequel, it’s ironic that he died in that movie and 2 years later, he would die in real life.

[@PecanSandees23]

One of his earlier roles was in The Great White Hope. Not sure if it's available anywhere. Did see him in You Can't Take It With You a few years ago. He was great.

[@christinebutler7630]

I got to see him play the title role in Othello, at the Morris Mechanic Theater in Baltimore. He simply owned the stage.

[@DanielOrme]

He won the Tony award both for The Great White Hope (1969) and the original production of Fences (1987).

[@NancyLiedel]

Morgan Freeman was on TV in the 70s. Electric Company. I saw it. I'm old.

[@robinbickel4594]

Me too!

[@DanielOrme]

Easy Reader. 😁

[@BigRed182]

You're not the only one 😀

[@debrablankenship3177]

Same hear

[@TheNedH]

He was GREAT.

[@Abutado]

Ok, but Meryl Streep was gorgeous in her youth and has aged beautifully. The woman is stunning and iconic.

[@gabrielcastaneda9700]

Viola and Denzel won Tony’s for the 2010 revival of fences

[@robinbickel4594]

I've been lucky enough to see many, many people on Broadway. Here's just a few - Kevin Kline, George C Scott, Matthew Broderick, Sarah Jessica Parker, Linda Rondstadt, James Earl Jones, Cynthia Nixon, Colleen Dewhurst, John Slattery, John Goodman, Robert Morse, Holland Taylor - so many, many others.

[@chamlo11]

@MsMojo...would love it if you could do Top Ten actors who started on Children's Shows. It would be interesting to know who we grew up with and still watch in film and television.

[@Pablorcct]

also Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, Liza Minnelli, Alan Cumming, Jonathan Groff, Nick Jonas, Ricky Martin did beauty & the beast in the 90s, Mikhail Barishnikov

[@avengirl6479]

Anna Kendrick is just made for Broadway. She's one of my biggest inspirations and I really hope she returns. I would love to see her play Jenna in Waitress or Cathy in The Last Five Years again if it did not have a limited Broadway engagement

[@Torrey33327]

Anna is a great choice if they make a film of the musical Waitress.

[@JoanneRVG]

Viola Davis and Denzel Washington were amazing in Fences!

[@robstockton911]

Viola Davis is great, but she needs to be careful…she’s becoming a one-note actress. I feel like if she had focused on theater, she’d have a more varied resume. Movie producers have pidgin holed her into “angry Black woman” and she’s got way more than that.

[@roneeclark1329]

Wow!! I was so surprised by many of these. Great list 👍

[@nikolatesla5553]

I found it amusing that you listed as number 1 Sarah Jessica Parker and didn’t mention her husband Matthew Broderick.

[@amandajones3303]

well based on the producers, ppl prob know he was on broadway

[@JoanJennings]

Saw John Lithgow in The Changing Room. He was a standout even then.

[@PecanSandees23]

One of the advantages of living in NYC and being a theatre geek is that I knew all of this. Some of these performances are available on KZbin, especially musical performances from the Tony Awards.

[@goldasian347]

What about Mandy Patinkin?

[@mahliekbenjamin174]

I Heard About Celebrities Appearing On Broadway Awesome 👌 👏 👍

[@cmccloskey56]

Carol Burnett! Started on Broadway, then moved to television.

[@robstockton911]

She started in the role that SJP is shown performing in here, in Once Upon a Mattress.

[@ukekrazy1242]

One of Diane Keaton's first movies is a short scene in a Woody Allen's movie "Radio Daze" It's a blink and you'll mss it scene near the end of the film. (I saw this one on Tubi) Great list! 🎵

[@TombCat]

It's a great movie - but not Diane Keaton's first. She was already 40 years old and an Oscar winner by the time she did the small, glamorous cameo in Radio Days.

[@Torrey33327]

She had already long before played Annie Hall when she made that cameo.

[@BrainDamage922]

I want them to make a Snape Origins movie, with Adam Driver playing Snape. He would be perfect!!!!!

[@eagandereagander6471]

He would be perfect for a younger Snape!

[@rachelle_banks]

I saw Hugh Jackman in The Boy From Oz in January 2004. I took a senior theater trip to New York with my high school and was interested in the show about Peter Allen, who I had learned was Liza Minnelli's husband and one of the writers of Arthur's Theme when I was a child. After the show, we could go to the back door to get autographs from the cast and we were allowed to take pictures OF Hugh Jackman but not with him. I remember after I got his autograph I told him that it was an interesting show and that I didn't know he sang but that hopefully he will find his own voice that doesn't sound so contrived. I literally told the man he was "just okay" but had potential and needs to not push his voice so hard to try and sound a certain way because it makes him sing sharp and out of tune. I may have also mentioned something about him getting training to pantomime playing the piano a little more realistically even though it's fast. My Drama teacher was super mortified. 😄 I wasn't trying to be rude though. I told him I'm sure he would continue to see his career flourish and to just keep in mind how he is training his voice. His I've got big like he was taking aback and he said, "Wow. Well that is the first time someone who came to see a show told me that. I guess I respect your honesty." 😄

[@denisefreitas6727]

Diane Keaton is amazing! La- di-da!

[@krapug11]

You forgot John Travolta, prior to his TV and Movie career, he was on Broadway with the way overlooked musical, Over Here, that stared Patti and Maxine Andrews, and after that he was featured in the original, bawdy, version of Grease.

[@chelseacanales8763]

All I can say is that all the actors in this list don’t have stage fright; they just made it look so easy

[@Bdear1]

No surprises they can really perform, it shows even more talent & versatility, since film & stage require different methods & talents. There's many more list versions, my fav's stars then Broadway 2nd like Daniel Ratliff, or those who inspired or created their own.

[@geviesanta3631]

I have a strong feeling that Giancarlo Esposito got his start in Broadway as well

[@metzkerj]

On stage, yes. Many, many plays. Not necessarily Broadway plays.

[@alexius23]

I saw Diane Keaton in Play it Again Sam

[@samuelcollantes1175]

Definitely Sarah Jessica Parker (i liked Hocus Pocus role) happy monday afternoon, Emily, take care and God bless you. Greetings from Colombia to you as well

[@aksez2u]

I will never, ever not hear "Huge Ackman", and it drives me crazy 🤣

[@allys744]

Fun fact: during that episode of Seinfeld where George left an off tune voicemail: Jason Alexander was actually a good, classically trained singer so he had to purposely sing off key to get the end result. Even then, the voicemail is off key but still decent 🤣

[@sandraslaviero4656]

Hugh Jackman was also Gaston in an Australian production of Beauty and the Beast

[@linusholm3806]

My wish list: Top 10 disney junior shows Top 10 unimportant pokemon episodes (no catching new pokemon, no evolving, no gym/pokemon leage battle, no meating new rivle, etc) Top 10 underrated animated disney series Best disney movie per decade Top 10 disney reprise songs (deleted included) Top 10 disney villains that deserved a villain song Top 10 disney couples with a tough start (Both movies and tv-series) Top 10 what have I done moment excluding disney and pixar Top 10 disney movie ideas (by you) 👍😉

[@wannabetowasabe]

I would love to see Anna Kendrick on stage.

[@BenPark]

Not sure if she's that well known for Broadway but Glenn Close was amazing in Sunset Blvd.

[@ValpCreates]

Mike Faist seems to be on that path, but we won't forget he was on Broadway

[@Nonnie335]

Ariana Grande and Nick Jonas also started on Broadway.

[@peggyknecht5551]

I first saw Hugh Jackman in Oklahoma, on PBS.

[@belleroseelizabethsmith8148]

It be so cool if trolls 4 did Broadway

[@jer9grant]

the more obscure-Broadway-history stars I was hoping to see in this video were like Nick Jonas and Ariana Grande

[@DIDYOUSEETHAT172]

Cool!

[@carriessweetslots4274]

Victor Garber as Jesus in Godspell. PHENOMENAL.

[@joangravelle8455]

and Kelly Bischop and Lauren Graham

[@alexius23]

Pretty sure I saw Parker in Annie

[@Yikes_its_Psychs]

Hugh Jackman is a God

[@karenrussell2923]

I love Anna Kendrick so much, I wish I could meet her and ask her for an autograph ✍️; that would make me happy like a dozen cupcakes 🧁.

[@pmearsh]

Jason Alexander!

[@GA-fn8hr]

Knew about every single one of them.

[@manyafuerst8670]

And I first remember Morgan Freeman from The Electric Company

[@lilliedoubleyou3865]

I feel like these are all extremely obvious, but then again I was a theatre nerd. Who doesn't know Anna Kendrick was on Broadway as a kid, or that Jason Alexander won a Tony for Jerome Robbins' Broadway? Or that SJP was on Broadway multiple times, starting from when she was a kid? Also -- here's how old I am. I saw SJP and Matthew Broderick in the '90s revival How to Succeed in Business, back before she was Carrie Bradshaw. She's so talented.

[@dalecooper9942]

I didn't know Huge Jackson had a history in Broadway

[@cmccloskey56]

He was fabulous in Boy From Oz - saw it twice.

[@robstockton911]

@@cmccloskey56 True. He wasn’t as good in the more recent “The Music Man” which is more of a character role, and his singing voice isn’t aging real well, but he could still be considered the “triple threat.”

[@Torrey33327]

​@@robstockton911 I wish they had cast Seth MacFarlane as Harold Hill. I see him much more than Jackman.

[@robstockton911]

@@Torrey33327 Oh, good one. Professor Hill should have a little of MacFarlane’s snark. Hugh is just a tad too wholesome and good-looking for that part.

[@cmccloskey56]

@@robstockton911 The problem with the most recent "The Music Man" was the direction. They cast the fabulous Sutton Foster as Marian, skewing the librarian, as played by a forty-something, as something different than the sweet, virginal piano teacher as played in the movie. In this context, when Harold Hill sings "Sadder But Wiser Girl" it gives the impression that Marian is Winthrop's mother, not his sister. A cynical take on a joyous jewel-box of a musical. It would have been better to cast Aaron Tveit as Hill, as he still has the boyish charm that a conman depends on. The tickets were astronomical because of the star casting.

[@lisahumphries3898]

You sound like Stevie from GMM.

[@atyiab1]

SJP was a surprise

[@greatfilmmaker]

Morgan freeman, but I have seen james earl jones on broadway so that makes up for it

[@jasonglasser1621]

Anyone interested enough in stage acting to want to watch this video already knew Hugh Jackman. This was new information for 0 people who actually watched it, and the people who would be discovering this for the first time, are not in the audience for this video.

[@GamerFunOriginallyAarush]

Now ain’t that fun!

[@juliamorriss]

I would love to see Anna Kendrick and Sarah Jessica Parker on broadway.

[@juliamorriss]

Anna Kendrick should be in a revival of Into the Woods

[@Torrey33327]

​@@juliamorriss As much as I love that show...the last thing we need is another revival of it. Plus she's already put it to film. I'd rather see her in something new written for her.

[@Chuck0856]

Sorry but unless you've been living under a rock most of these are well-known Broadway stars.

[@signergirl1]

Jason Alexander… he was made for Broadway musicals, especially when they are brought to the screen like the Roger’s and Hammerstein’s Cinderella with Brandy and Whitney Houston. He excelled in that!

[@sjelliott6660]

So you skip over Jackman in Swordfish in 2001. Lazy reporting.

[@cailieisidro5758]

True how it’s his film debut, but the film wasn’t really good anyways. Bunch of male gaze like Halle Berry being the fanservice character and that one scene where Hugh Jackson’s character gets head

[@robstockton911]

I don’t think this was meant to be a comprehensive catalog of anyone’s career.

[@Jefferyward8298]

Yooooo

[@Jefferyward8298]

Lol

[@Jefferyward8298]

:)

[@CharlesPage-dj3ho]

Morgan Freeman

[@shaliseshaw9385]

Barbara Streisand, Joel Gray, Alan Cumming, Carol Channing, Betty Buckley, Patti Lupone, and other celebrities should've been on the list. 🎟️🎭🎭🎭🎭🎶🎶🎵🎵🎵🎵🚖🚖🚖🚖🚖🚖🚓🚓🗽

[@cmccloskey56]

I think they focused on people that are known for their TV roles. In which case Jerry Orbach should have been featured on this list.