I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I booked my first national tour of a Broadway show right out of college. It was the tap show, '42nd Street.' I had only been tap dancing for three years when I booked that show.
Now, I was the Summer Concert guy. I played every Summer concert there was.
At 7, I was at the barre and dancing at folk festivals. Then I was a student with the ballet school of the Metropolitan Opera.
In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.
I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.
I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual.
That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.
I did a theatrical musical, Annie Warbucks, when I was 11. We did a tour and we stopped by Los Angeles.
I've done every kind of touring known to mankind. I've played the big and the small places.
I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender.