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Who was the nicest actor or actress you met?
#75re: Who was the nicest Broadway actor or actress you met?
Posted: 4/17/08 at 12:09am
I couldn't get over how nice Raul Esparza was. A really, really great guy.
He takes the cake for me.
HOWEVER, Deanna Dunagan and Orfeh were both very very nice people. Dunagan is 180 degrees from her character.
They tie for second.
#76re: Who was the nicest Broadway actor or actress you met?
Posted: 4/17/08 at 12:20am
Julie Harris...I was very lucky to be invited to a closing night party for Miss Harris
Tyne Daly....Very funny
Phylicia Rashad....Beautiful
#77re: Who was the nicest Broadway actor or actress you met?
Posted: 4/17/08 at 1:19am
Ann Reinking
Cheyenne Jackson
Anne Bancroft when she was in "The Occupant" (I think it was off-b'way)
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.- Bette Davis
#78re: Who was the nicest Broadway actor or actress you met?
Posted: 4/17/08 at 1:20amCherry Jones
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#79re: Who was the nicest Broadway actor or actress you met?
Posted: 4/17/08 at 1:27am
"Me - Derrick Trumbley from Spelling Bee Chi-town."
Agreed. Kind of. In a sense. I sent him an email way back in february 07 (way back, right? =/) and he was awesome in answering my questions.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I?
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
alsal
Swing Joined: 10/21/07
#80re: Who was the nicest Broadway actor or actress you met?
Posted: 4/17/08 at 1:32amRaul Esparza. Jonathan Groff. Roger Bart.
Trekkie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/7/06
#81re: Who was the nicest Broadway actor or actress you met?
Posted: 4/17/08 at 1:36amThe entire SA, Spelling Bee and Avenue Q casts.
"I think of avant-garde as downtown shows where you rub waffles and chocolate on yourself."- Hunter Bell
broadwayrob
Featured Actor Joined: 4/14/08
#82re: Who was the nicest Broadway actor or actress you met?
Posted: 4/17/08 at 2:15am
this is definitely easy for me. jessica lee goldyn.. by a MILE.
easily the sweetest person i have EVER met.
anything you do let it come from you and it will be new.
#83re: Who was the nicest Broadway actor or actress you met?
Posted: 4/17/08 at 2:54am
My Top 10 Nicest B'way Performers:
(in no particular order)
Annie Golden
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Johnny Tartaglia
Robert Cuccioli
NORM
David Hyde Pierce
Jim Stanek
Martin Short
Andrea Martin
Nathan Lane
#84re: Who was the nicest Broadway actor or actress you met?
Posted: 4/17/08 at 8:30am
Well, since most of the time I stage door, I'm too star-struck to talk (and I've only been to NYC once), my list is crazy limited.
The leads from the My Fair Lady tour this year were SO sweet! They stopped and personally spoke to everyone outside the stage door.
And, of course, the Spelling Bee cast I saw last April were the sweetest people on Earth!
Every living soul has got a voice - you've got to give it room and let it sing.
#85re: Who was the nicest Broadway actor or actress you met?
Posted: 4/17/08 at 10:15am
I've told this story before on here (I think), but Chita Rivera, bar none. I encountered her during the tryout period for BRING BACK BIRDIE, and she couldn't have been lovelier to this goggle-eyed 19 year old. Think about it: she KNEW she was in a bad show, she KNEW it wasn't going to run, she KNEW (or maybe had a suspicion) that it was going to be skewered by the critics, etc. I said "Good luck with your new show, Ms. Rivera!", and she said, with all sincerity and a smile, "that's the thing you could have said. Thank you so much."
I did see BBB, too. Oi vey. But that's another thread. :)
dave1606
Broadway Star Joined: 12/8/07
#86re: Who was the nicest Broadway actor or actress you met?
Posted: 4/17/08 at 10:33am
David Hyde Pierce, and the entire cast of curtains really. they are all sweethearts, and all stayed a long time to chat with us. (must see show again)
Laura Linney! see my other thread, but she could not have been nicer! took time to take pictures with everyone.
Stephanie J. Block definitely! My mom LOVED that show and brought her playbill from it, and stephanie took time to do an elaborate signature and write Sail on across it.
Also....Jenna Russell!
#87re: Who was the nicest Broadway actor or actress you met?
Posted: 4/17/08 at 11:49am
Laura Benanti
Jonathan Groff
Jonathan Gallagher Jr.
the whole cast of SA, really, Lea was a bit rushed both times... but... meh, whatev.
Beth Leavel too!
that's a really big mic...
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#88re: Who was the nicest Broadway actor or actress you met?
Posted: 4/17/08 at 12:15pm
"TheatreDiva.... where have you been?=-)"
Up to my eyeballs in work!
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
#89re: Who was the nicest Broadway actor or actress you met?
Posted: 4/17/08 at 12:18pm
"Me - Derrick Trumbley from Spelling Bee Chi-town."
Agreed. Kind of. In a sense. I sent him an email way back in february 07 (way back, right? =/) and he was awesome in answering my questions."
He was awesome. I met him backstage before the show with my Bestfriend, Alex and he was awesome and answerd questions and whatnot before the show.
He's a faker, and you've been taken in by his con. And in doing so, you are enabling him. He is doing more damage to aspergers than papa's words ever could. -Chane/Liverpool on me having asperger syndrome.
Jonny boy
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/30/07
#90re: Who was the nicest Broadway actor or actress you met?
Posted: 4/17/08 at 12:18pmGood to see your alive!=-)
#91re: Who was the nicest Broadway actor or actress you met?
Posted: 4/17/08 at 12:44pmJohn Gallagher Jr or Patti Lupone win the this title. Both experiances I had with each are so differnt that neither is better than the other but both the nicest people ever.
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
N2N.Head2
Swing Joined: 4/17/08
#92re: Who was the nicest Broadway actor or actress you met?
Posted: 4/17/08 at 6:03pm
Mary-Louise Parker
Marcia Gay Harden ("Angels in America")
Alice Ripley
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#93re: Who was the nicest Broadway actor or actress you met?
Posted: 4/17/08 at 6:07pm
Kate Shindle
Richard H. Blake
Nikki Snelson
Brynn Williams (ok, family friend, doesn't count, but the backstage tour of the Hilton was cool!)
Kristin Chenoweth
Daphne Rubin-Vega (stagedoor after Phantom, not Les Mis, was more interested in seeing the cast of "Les Mis")
technically, not an actress but Lorna Luft was very nice and let me see her backstage
casualtyofLoVe
Chorus Member Joined: 2/21/08
#94re: Who was the nicest Broadway actor or actress you met?
Posted: 4/17/08 at 6:28pm
First place is a tie between Lin-Manuel Miranda and Christopher Hanke.
Other really nice actors
The rest of the In the Heights cast
Tim Howar
Antonique Smith
Tonya Dixon
Shaun Earl
Haven Burton
Luther Creek
Nicolette Hart
Jonathan Groff
John Gallager
Jaime Lee Kirchner
Noah Weisberg
#95re: Who was the nicest Broadway actor or actress you met?
Posted: 4/17/08 at 7:38pmThe cast of Spring Awakening are almost all super nice. Especially Jonathan Groff, John Gallagher Jr., Skylar Astin, and Krysta Rodriguez.
#96re: Who was the nicest Broadway actor or actress you met?
Posted: 4/17/08 at 8:39pmTyne Daly was really nice, too.
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
#97re: Who was the nicest Broadway actor or actress you met?
Posted: 4/18/08 at 12:20am
I've met a couple, but the nicest was Gary Mauer. He was the Phantom on the national tour back in 04-05. He was just a wonderful person! After the show I was waiting by the stage door for autographs and pictures - NO idea who I was specifically looking for. Suddenly there was this tall man standing next to me. He said, "Are you waiting for autographs and pictures?"
I said, "Yes i am".
Then she said, "I can sign for you."
So i handed him my program and said, "Great! Uhhhh.... which one were you?"
Then he smiled and said, "Oh, the Phantom."
Yea...I about died!!!
I met him after the show on three separate occasions, and every time he hung out to sign autographs, take pictures, and chitchat for a bit. What a wonderful person he is!!
Belleof14thStreet
Chorus Member Joined: 5/31/07
#98re: Who was the nicest Broadway actor or actress you met?
Posted: 4/18/08 at 9:15pmMichele Pawk. Hands down.
daspazoo
Leading Actor Joined: 3/11/06
#99re: Who was the nicest Broadway actor or actress you met?
Posted: 4/18/08 at 9:42pm
Not mention yet, the three nicest people I've met at the Stage Door:
Donna Lynn Champlin (Sweeney Todd)
Andrea Burns (In the Heights)
Olga Merediz (In the Heights)
...this bird is singing.
