It was the theatre present created to mark Celtic’s glittering Centenary Season in 1988.
However certainly one of Scotland’s most profitable actors has informed how producers narrowly prevented a mis-step that might have put a Rangers legend on the coronary heart of the Hoops’ celebrations.
Actor and director Peter Mullan, who appeared onstage in The Celtic Story in 1988, has revealed how he and co-star Davie McKay stepped in to forestall a Rangers legend taking the limelight onstage at Glasgow’s Pavilion.
Stars of Billy McNeill’s double-winning staff, together with Frank McAvennie, Paul McStay, Pat Bonner and Billy Stark, shocked audiences on the finish of the present every evening by rising from a birthday cake holding the Scottish Cup on stage.
When the manufacturing ran out of Celtic gamers, the late David MacLennan, who based the present’s manufacturing firm Wildcat, had an thought.
Mullan mentioned: “David, God bless him, recommended John Greig [the former Rangers manager and player]. Me and David McKay have been the one large Celtic followers within the forged, and recommended it won't be a terrific thought.
“Celtic had simply gained the double, I’m undecided any Celtic followers had a lot towards John Greig however they positively didn’t need him popping out of a cake holding the Scottish Cup we’d simply gained.”
He added: “It was a terrific expertise, bonkers. There have been indicators up in every single place saying ‘no ingesting, no images’ and actually if you walked on stage, everyone was opening beer cans and also you’d be in the midst of a scene and any person can be taking an image. It was hilarious. I cherished it.”
Mullan has since gone on to grow to be some of the profitable actors and filmmakers in Scotland, making movies like Neds and The Magdalene Sisters, with roles in My Identify Is Joe and Harry Potter.
His darkish 1998 comedy Orphans has now been tailored as a musical for stage by the Nationwide Theatre of Scotland, opening this week at Glasgow's Armadillo starring Burnistoun’s Rab Florence. It’ll tour to Edinburgh and Inverness later this month.
The Ozark actor’s involvement has been minimal, however he gave the manufacturing his blessing throughout forged read-through final 12 months, and in contrast it to his time with Wildcat.
He mentioned: “This jogged my memory of corporations like Wildcat, and seven:84, too. They have been the one exhibits that might mix politics, Scottish accents and music on the time.”
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