Sarah Lancashire Quotes

It's true that my mom loved it when I played Joanie Cunningham in the musical 'Happy Days,' but I think she finally realized I am never going to do 'Oklahoma!'

I'd been acting in Chicago since I came back after University, and I got a call from my agent saying, 'They're doing this revival of 'On a Clear Day,' and I actually auditioned when the team came through Chicago for the 'American Idiot' tour.

I started in musicals. My first professional experience was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in Palm Springs.

If you saw me in 'The King and I,' I had that angelic, virginal face.

'Miss Saigon' was my first professional show. It was one of the first regional productions of 'Miss Saigon.'

I spent four months once doing a play on Broadway.

I made my Broadway debut in the revival of Hair and followed it up with the bus and truck tour of Grease.

My first professional gig was 'Once Upon a Mattress' at the Drury Lane Oakbrook... I was in the ensemble. I was one of the ladies in waiting, and I covered Winnifred.

When I saw my first Broadway show, 'Beauty and the Beast,' I was like, 'Okay, I'm definitely gonna do this.' After that, I did little shows and started auditioning.

I worked consistently on Broadway from when I was 8 years old through 'Spring Awakening,' which I left in 2008.

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

I went to an ordinary primary school, and then I started performing in a show called 'Billy Elliot' on the West End, and that was sort of my drama school.

I liked 'Brighton Beach Memoirs,' which I did with Neil Simon. I kind of was playing him, as Eugene Morris Jerome, and I played that a few times at the very beginning of my career.

I'm very proud of my New York debut. I played Oscar Wilde in 'Gross Indecency' off Broadway in about 1997. And I was very proud of my Broadway debut in 'The Iceman Cometh.'

I sing; I started my career at 9 years old in 'Les Miserables' on Broadway.

I was Danny Zuko in 'Grease,' and I was in the musical 'Sweet Charity' and then in the musical 'On the Twentieth Century.' They were great. I mean, singing isn't really my strong suit, but I just really enjoyed it.

When I got the job on 'Cursed Child,' I was doing another show in the West End, and I was playing a part that Marlon Brando had played.

After I left the R.S.C., I did a musical, 'Masquerade,' where I played a rabbit. I was the lead.

I was in the original cast of 'Sunset Boulevard.' I played Betty. But I wasn't on the cast album.

I had done quite a bit of stage when I was younger, local stuff, musicals. Then I started professionally, I suppose, when I was 11, in London, in the West End, which was already huge for me.

I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music.'

My first role was in the George Gershwin musical 'Crazy for You' at the Orlando Repertory Theatre when I was 11 - I grew up in Florida - and I wasn't old enough to be in it, but they let me anyway. I was just this little shrimp in a leotard.

I did Chicago on Broadway the year before last. That was a great opportunity and I had a blast.

I started when I was in 'The King and I' when I was on Broadway when I was nine.

First play I ever did was 'Footloose.' I played the part of Willard when I was 16. I think I wore my drama teacher's jeans and her belt - that's how small I was. I know a lot of Willard's back story from the musical that's not explored in the film. Like he's got this whole relationship with his mama, and he sings this song 'Mama Says.'