He met his wife, a former stage manager, on "Evita".
Her mother, Sara, was a former stage actor and her father, Francis, an art dealer.
Judy Mauer, a former stage manager for Playwrights Horizons next door, remembered getting mugged in the theater in 1977.
The movie languishes in its final third, too much of which concerns Burt's possible romance with a former stage assistant (Olivia Wilde) he emotionally abused.
That film starred Bing Crosby as an entertainer who retires and opens an inn; Astaire was cast as his former stage partner.
Mr. Tatum, who helped write the film, was a stripper before he became famous; he has not said yet whether he wants to rejoin his former stage trade.
Chasen's is run by the former stage comedian whose name it bears, and it is popular with people in the motion-picture industry.
He met and later married Ruth Rose, a former stage actress who was the expedition's official historian and who would later collaborate on several Cooper-Schoedsack productions.
For Serkis, a former stage and television actor, Gollum had changed everything, placing him at the leading edge of a revolution in cinematic production.
Inside, a jumble of lighting wires forms a makeshift chandelier and black walls link the space to its former stage life.
Mr. Vega, a church deacon, stalked the altar on the former stage, clutching a microphone, weeping and shouting prayers of "Hallelujah" and "Praise be God".
