Famous People You've Been Lucky Enough To Meet

[ifuweregay93]

Famous People You've Been Lucky Enough To Meet#1

Posted: 6/24/12 at 1:48pm

Just wondering, who are some of the famous people you've been lucky enough to meet?

People I've met over the years...

Dana Carvey
Colin Quinn
Tim Curry
Jamie Foxx
Kevin Smith
Jason Mewes
Conan O'Brien (x3 times)
Bo Burnham - Comedian
Stephen Lynch - Comedian
Lee Evans
Tim Minchin - (Australian comic I'm not too sure many people have really heard of, but he is really funny and talented, and even wrote the music and lyrics for "Matilda")
Brian Poeshn - (Sarah Silverman Show)
Adam Sandler - Last week in Chicago, when he was here for "CONAN", talked to his people at the Chicago premiere for his movie (while he was busy on the red carpet), and managed to secure myself a private, 2 minute meet and greet with the man himself, during which he signed everything I had, and was very polite!

What about you guys?

[StockardFan]

Famous People You've Been Lucky Enough To Meet#2

Posted: 6/24/12 at 2:10pm

Not too many. I've met Chris Robinson from the Black Crowes, Robert Plant, all 3 guys from the Stray Cats and Charlie Sheen. That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

KFTC!!!!!

[Unknown User]

...#2

Posted: 6/24/12 at 2:54pm

I have fond memories of them
but won't name drop Updated On: 6/24/12 at 02:54 PM

[SNAFU]

Famous People You've Been Lucky Enough To Meet#3

Posted: 6/24/12 at 2:58pm

Lots and lots!

Been working on SNL for the past 27 seasons.

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Updated On: 6/24/12 at 02:58 PM

[tazber]

Famous People You've Been Lucky Enough To Meet#4

Posted: 6/24/12 at 3:08pm

Lots, only because I worked in a Manhattan hotel while I was in college. The hotel did dozens of press junkets.

....but the world goes 'round

[iluvtheatertrash]

Famous People You've Been Lucky Enough To Meet#5

Posted: 6/24/12 at 3:11pm

Depends how famous we're talking. I'll go with some of my favorites...

Frank Langella
Julianne Moore
Stephen Sondheim
James Gandolfini (on the N train, actually!)
Lauren Graham
Elaine Stritch
Phyllis Newman
Polly Bergen

and my all-time favorite...

the late, great Lanford Wilson who made me tea in his beautiful Hamptons garden as we talked about the butterflies in BURN THIS.

I'm sure there are many I'm forgetting.

"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman

[bwaylvsong]

Famous People You've Been Lucky Enough To Meet#6

Posted: 6/24/12 at 3:15pm

I had a full conversation with Tracey Ullman.

[Marianne2]

Famous People You've Been Lucky Enough To Meet#7

Posted: 6/24/12 at 4:11pm

Only one that lasted more than 5 seconds was Sara Ramirez.

The rest were stage doors or a meet and greet I won, which was only a signature of something I brought & pictures of them.

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[CapnHook]

Famous People You've Been Lucky Enough To Meet#8

Posted: 6/24/12 at 4:22pm

"Meet" can be such an interpretive word. Do you mean be in the same room with? Stage door? Work with? Pass by on the street? Have a conversation with?

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

[Kristie-K2]

Famous People You've Been Lucky Enough To Meet#9

Posted: 6/24/12 at 4:30pm

Over Five Minutes
Stockard Channing
Julie Harris
Judith Light
Liza Minnelli
Diana Ross...10 minutes
Ellen Burstyn
Tyne Daly
Shirley MacLaine
Angie Dickenson
Lorraine Bracco and many more!!!!!

Only one seemed bored to tears all three times I talked with her in three different years...

[JbaraFan1]

Famous People You've Been Lucky Enough To Meet#10

Posted: 6/24/12 at 5:15pm

I was in the same room with Tobey Ticklebritches when he came to perform at my school way back in the day. Is he famous? I don't know.

[uncageg]

Famous People You've Been Lucky Enough To Meet#11

Posted: 6/24/12 at 5:42pm

A lot. But I would have to say the most memorable was when I was a kid and my best friend's grandfather was a sports writer for the Phila. Bulletin. He took the two of us to Muhammad Ali's home in Cherry Hill, NJ. Not only did I get to spend time with him at his home, he took us for a ride in his new Rolls Royce. And he drove!

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

[Jane2]

Famous People You've Been Lucky Enough To Meet#12

Posted: 6/24/12 at 7:43pm

Oh god, between house managing a theater and the company I kept years ago, I met everyone. It doesn't excite me though, with the exception of two people-David Bowie and Jack Nicholson. the rest, so what. Even knowing Madonna. So.

<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES

[eatlasagna]

Famous People You've Been Lucky Enough To Meet#13

Posted: 6/24/12 at 8:15pm

i lived in the HOllywood area for about 6 years so I always saw famous people and never felt comfortable talking to them... then i finally did... he was pretty much not so welcoming and nice (and I approached him at Amoeba Music so it wasn't in some awkward place... he was alone just browsing the CDs)... decided i would never do it again... now it just doesn't excite me so much... they are just regular people with tons of money and ridiculous "rich white people" problems (as my friends and I like to say at times)... hahaha!

[dramamama611]

Famous People You've Been Lucky Enough To Meet#14

Posted: 6/24/12 at 8:21pm

Oh, so many:
Sylvester Stallone
Dolly Parton
Robert Morley
Joe Frasier (This was crazy!)
Betty Buckley
Matthew Broderick
Susan Sarandon

And then all the b'way actors that my path has crossed -- far too numerous to list.

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[frogs_fan85]

Famous People You've Been Lucky Enough To Meet#15

Posted: 6/24/12 at 9:21pm

President and Secretary Clinton
Alec Baldwin
Tony Bennett
Elton John
Aretha Franklin

And that was all in one night.

Sting

[missthemountains]

Famous People You've Been Lucky Enough To Meet#16

Posted: 6/25/12 at 2:17am

Ones that I have had sustaining conversations with:

Idina Menzel
Jennifer Laura Thompson
Daniel Goldstein (director of Godspell revival)
Chris Peluso
David Shire
Richard Maltby Jr
Marin Mazzie/Jason Daniely (ran into both of them in an airport)
Norbert Leo Butz
Matt Doyle (if he counts as famous?)
Jason Robert Brown
Sarah Rice
Anthony Rapp
Adam Pascal

I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting... I've had some friends who were in
a lot of National Tours and Broadway shows with famous people. One of my friends was in the School of Rock growing up and I always joked I was a degree away from meeting Sarah Silverman :) Updated On: 6/25/12 at 02:17 AM

[Mister Matt]

Famous People You've Been Lucky Enough To Meet#17

Posted: 6/25/12 at 11:55am

I guess "famous" is sort of a relative term, but there are many I've met and conversed with at varying degrees of conversation.

Studied/Worked with:

Stuart Ostrow and wife, Ann Gilbert
Jerry Bock
Edward Albee
K. Todd Freeman
Christoph Eschenbach

Met:

Marc Shaiman (shout-out to Sueleen...that was such a fun evening!)
JFK, Jr.
Al Pacino
Jose Quintero
Sir Peter Hall
Martin Charnin
Patti LuPone
Joel Grey
Robert Morse
Michael Cerveris
Nathan Lane
Linda Eder
Robert Cuccioli
Kathy Rigby
Veanne Cox
John Ritter
Henry Winkler
Dana Ivey
Jessica Hecht
Paul Rudd
Marion Ross
Sam Harris
Chuck Wagner
Stephen Bogardus
James Naughton
Dee Hoty
Keith Carradine
Debbie Boone
John Glover
Michael Nouri
Gladys Knight
Dave Lombardo
Wayne Static
Stewart Copland
Andy Bell
Natalie Merchant
John Corigliano
Emanuel Ax
Yo-Yo Ma
Alicia De Larrocha
Diamanda Galas
Ann Carlson
David Parsons
John Grisham

Friends:

Jonathan Couette
Chad Brannon

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[JbaraFan1]

Famous People You've Been Lucky Enough To Meet#18

Posted: 6/25/12 at 2:44pm

uncageg wrote:
...I would have to say the most memorable was when I was a kid and my best friend's grandfather was a sports writer for the Phila. Bulletin. He took the two of us to Muhammad Ali's home in Cherry Hill, NJ. Not only did I get to spend time with him at his home, he took us for a ride in his new Rolls Royce. And he drove!

Okay, IMO, you win! lol

[supportivemom]

Famous People You've Been Lucky Enough To Meet#19

Posted: 6/25/12 at 2:49pm

Not including stage door- these are people I have had actual conversations with:

Jane Seymour
Chelsea Handler
Rob Schneider
Rich Little

Rob and Chelsea were VERY nice to me too!

[doodlenyc]

Famous People You've Been Lucky Enough To Meet#20

Posted: 6/25/12 at 4:12pm

Well, you all know me!

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[SonofRobbieJ]

Famous People You've Been Lucky Enough To Meet#21

Posted: 6/25/12 at 4:25pm

The only ones I'll ever really brag about (cause I generally think meeting famous people is not all that interesting) are President and then-Senator Clinton. And it wasn't meeting and speaking with them, so much, as it was performing a play for them. It was a tiny, 60-seat house in the West Village, and I was playing Einstein in Picasso at the Lapin Agile. I think the only two people watching the stage were the President and the Senator. Everyone else was watching them watching us.

[NYadgal]

Famous People You've Been Lucky Enough To Meet#22

Posted: 6/25/12 at 8:56pm

^ Like.

For me - too, too, too, too, too many to list.

But, singing with Sir Paul McCartney is worthy of a mention.

(ok, it was seriously cool...)

"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."

[JbaraFan1]

Famous People You've Been Lucky Enough To Meet#23

Posted: 6/26/12 at 12:43am

Holy sh!t, NYadgal! Color me highly impressed. Seriously cool indeed! Sir Paul Effin'McCartney! Damn, girl!

RobbieJ's is pretty cool too!

[NYadgal]

Famous People You've Been Lucky Enough To Meet#24

Posted: 6/27/12 at 9:33pm

And the best part - he was the nicest man!
SO funny and inspiring and he'd spend lots of time with us during and in-between rehearsals.
It was seriously cool

"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."