This is a great diversion. David Suchet was also in Romeo and Juliet that year - with, future James Bond, Timothy Dalton playing Romeo and Estelle Kohler (whatever happened to her?) as Juliet. David Suchet was Tybalt.
It was a fantastic year: that season's Richard II remains the best...
If you're in Stratford in the summer season, it's almost impossible to avoid actors. If you're talking about 1973, it was a good year for the RSC - Eileen Atkins was Rosalind in AYLI with the aforementioned David Suchet playing Orlando (and Maureen Lipman as Celia). I remember getting Atkins and...
It wasn't an Evening with Gary Lineker - it was The Pajama Game at Chichester.
Still really astonished, most unlikely spotting since I saw Ross Kemp at The Taming of the Shrew (presumably picking up marital guidance tips)
... Gary Lineker
I don't recall seeing a celebrity in a more unlikely place. In fact, it was so unlikely, I wasn't convinced it was him but I just looked up a picture of his wife and she was definitely the person there last night. They were stuck at the end of the row in Chichester's small...