Players
The role of Victoria was originated by Finola Hughes in London West End and by Cynthia Onrubia on Broadway. Phyllida Crowley Smith played her in the 1998 filmed version. Sandra Kater, wife of RTE television presenter Victor Dion, played Victoria for over fifteen hundred performances at the New London Theatre in London's West End. She is also played by Joyce Chittick who volunteered along with Stephen Bertles as Plato inside the Washoe County Medical Center in Nevada during the North American tour. Sara M. Reardon played the part from 2007-2008. She is at the moment being played by Sarah Bumgarner in the Worldwide Tour. During September 2012, in the 'Shine Youth Music Theatre' production of 'Cats' at Motherwell Civic Hall, Scotland; Victoria is being played by Nicole McCafferty, her first major role with Shine. Her twin sister Erin McCafferty is also starring, as part of the main ensemble.
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Famous quotes containing the word players:
“Yeah, percentage players die broke too, don’t they, Bert?”
—Sydney Carroll, U.S. screenwriter, and Robert Rossen. Eddie Felson (Paul Newman)
“The players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out [a] line. My answer hath been, “Would he had blotted a thousand.””
—Ben Jonson (c. 1572–1637)
“Will you see the players well bestowed? Do you hear, let them
be well used, for they are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time. After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)