Altrenate/Secret Stage Doors

[musicalperson17]

Posted: 9/3/10 at 5:08pm

This is just out of pure curiosity. Does anyone know which theatres have other stage doors, and if so, where are they. I'm not trying to stalk the actors or anyting, i dont even live in New york, i was just wondering.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 9/3/10 at 5:13pm

Telling where they are would defeat the purpose of their being secret, wouldn't it?

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 9/3/10 at 5:23pm

And if they are being used, it means the actor does not want you harassing them for autographs/photos.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 9/3/10 at 5:24pm

You mean there are actors who don't like to sign or be photographed? They don't belong on Broadway!!!!!

Send them to Corine's Corner!

[aasjb4ever]

Posted: 9/3/10 at 5:28pm

Dolly, you need to stop drunk posting.

[mikem]

Posted: 9/3/10 at 5:51pm

Taking the poster at his/her word that it is curiosity and that he/she is genuinely asking:

It may not be true for smaller venues, but Broadway theaters are big enough that I imagine that all of them have alternate exits, for fire code if nothing else. For example, the ways the audience uses to go in and out of the theater could be used as alternate exits. Some theaters are connected to neighboring buildings, sometimes through underground tunnels. And I imagine that Broadway theaters generally have loading docks, which would also potentially be alternate exits.

So actors have other ways of leaving, for the most part. And hopefully the audience respects their decision to leave through an alternate exit.

[steven22]

Posted: 9/3/10 at 8:37pm

Jen Damiano sometimes went out a side gate area during her run in next to normal. After I left the stage door, I would always see her (and sometimes Adam, even when he wasn't in the show that day) sneak out through a side exit.

[KirbyCat]

Posted: 9/3/10 at 10:49pm

When I saw Young Frankenstein, when I was at the stage door, I saw Megan Mullally literally walk out an exit about 3 doors down from the one all her fans were standing outside of.

[musicalperson17]

Posted: 9/3/10 at 11:47pm

i can completly respect an actors decision to leave theatres another way. i got confused one time. the last time i was in NY was in november to see shrek. i went to nights in a row to get sutton, the only one to not show at all. the 2nd night, another person at the SD said that there is another door that we don't know about etc.....i was later talking to someone i know who did a show that played at the same theatre. she said there is no other exit except for the main entrance. so ive been confused ever since

[perfectlymarvelous]

Posted: 9/3/10 at 11:51pm

She probably left through the house, or waited until the stage door crowd had cleared to leave the theater.

[musicalperson17]

Posted: 9/4/10 at 12:00am

i was just a little dissapointed because it was BDJ's last perf. oh well wonderful performance thought :)

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 9/4/10 at 6:25pm

Every theater has another exit, but I wouldn't call them secret, necessarily. If you know how, you can even leave by way of a different theater than you entered in many cases.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 9/5/10 at 6:14am

I would say most, if not all have a second exit that the actors (and other employees) use when they don't want to deal with the hassle of the stage door. some bring them out on the opposite side of the block, others are just a few unnoticed doors.

[snowskittle]

Posted: 9/7/10 at 9:50am

I remember reading a year or two back on one of these boards that there was rumored to be a doorway from one of the Mamma Mia dressing rooms at the Wintergarden into an adjoining restaurant, but I never heard whether it was true. Does anyone know?