I take great pride in recalling that I could open in a play on Broadway or in London's West End and fill a theatre on the strength of my name - Steed's name.
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Filling a theatre like the Olympia or Vicar Street on your own name is a very rewarding moment.
I would really have liked to have gone to Broadway with 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' I was proud of that.
Very early on, when I started doing these plays and live shows, I would travel from city to city, and there were a million shows out there... so I wanted to step out among it, and I started putting my name above the title.
David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to change my name because there was another David Nicholls, and I thought if I changed it to my mother's name, she'd be touched.
I certainly wanted my name in lights. I wanted my name on a marquee. I wanted recognition on Broadway.
I am very proud of my name. My full name is Richard Treat Williams.
I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.
I wanted to be a theater actress, but I thought it would be easier to get to New York and the theater if I had a name than if I just walked the streets as a little girl from California.
I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.'
Musical theatre is something that I always wanted to be a part of, and my first ever role on the West End as Joseph in 'Joseph And The Technicolor Dreamcoat' gave me a taste for it.
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