After leaving school , he worked behind the scenes at the open air theatre at LOCATION@1 as a prompter , then an assistant stage manager -LRB- ORGANIZATION@1 -RRB- on a tour of The Merry Widow , and then at Theatre in the Round in LOCATION@2 .

He worked behind the scenes at the open air theatre at LOCATION@1 as a prompter -LRB- helping actors who forgot their words -RRB- . He later worked as an assistant stage manager -LRB- ORGANIZATION@1 -RRB- on a tour of The Merry Widow .
