Michael Ball
speaker
277 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 26 Mar
Michael Ball’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Why do I like this?
And you try and emulate them.
What was your big break as a performer?
Kind of two.
I suppose the really big one is Les Mis.
I was a year out of drama school.
22, 23, yeah, 22.
And I was doing, the big break was going up for an open audition for the Gilbert and Sullivan musical.
um or operetta uh called pirates of penzance they had these four stars in it and then the young lead i went up with about 600 other people for an open audition and ended up with a lead in that
I did that in Manchester.
But you're not shitting yourself.
No, at that point, I'm absolutely fearless.
The fear came later.
And then from there, Cameron Mackintosh saw me and they were casting Les Mis.
Les Mis was about to happen at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Trevor Nunn directing, I was obsessed with him as a director.
And they asked me down to audition and I ended up in the original cast of that.
And that was a huge... I mean... You'd arrived.
And that was my downfall, I think, because I was doing Les Mis and I got ill.
And I then lost all my confidence.
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