Are we (fans) talked about by Broadway performers?- Page 2

[mejusthavingfun]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 12:28pm

The stalkers sure are! LOL the doormen know who you are!!! I've seen the backstage antics with actors getting teased before they leave the theatre to meet their "fans."

[Weez]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 12:29pm

Definitely. This isn't exactly Broadway-related, but I'm kinda involved in UK anime fandom (I help run one of the larger cons, because I am stupid O_O) and there's a particularly notorious gentleman in UK anime fandom who believes he has what it takes to be a voice actor (he UTTERLY doesn't, and he stalks existing VAs). And at our con a couple of weeks ago, we had three professional voice actors there who had a niiiiice long bitching session about this guy. So yes, fans are talked about, especially if they're creepy sods!

[worrell4077]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 12:32pm

"when the play, "Jeffrey" was off-Broadway, I wrote the lead a letter saying how much I enjoyed both the play and his performance"

Dottie that's similar to what I did with Jersey Boys. I wrote them a letter(that JLY seemed to be the only one who read it) along with my photos with JLY, Daniel, and Christian(Bobby had to go somewhere) and my article that I wrote for my high school paper and I got a postcard back a week later and when I went in April, Daniel and John reconized me from the photo(Daniel reconized me sooner than John did). I went back towards the end of May and when I put my photo of me and Christian up so that he could sign it, he looked at it and reconized it.
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[SNLMedia]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 12:38pm

A performer in Hairspray (take a guess who) once noticed that I had moved seats at intermission, and called me on it afterwards at the stagedoor. Most of the time, performers notice us more than we notice them.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 2:10pm

Muscle, to answer your question, he remembered the uniqueness of my last name. When I was being introduced to him, my acquaintance used both my first and last name.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 2:15pm

Zeljko Ivanek saw my cell phone in my lap at Caine Mutiny, told security, and interrogated me backstage with the security guard about it following the show. Their faces turned 7 different shades of red when they found out that the phone wasn't on.

Aside from that, the actors who tend to remember the most fans are those in shows that are doing poorly. It brings great pleasure to any actor to know that people (even a few) are coming back again and again.

[Horton]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 2:23pm

Yankeefan, I remember when you told us that story, and then you got Schwimmer's John Hankock

[bwayondabrain]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 2:28pm

i think fans and people are talked about
like when i had dinner with Mylinda Hull, she says she knows quite a few people on Broadway who have gotten letters from me
so that makes me feel very good!
:)

[LumBabsFan]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 2:39pm

Absolutely, don't doubt it at all. And as long as it's good talk, it's the best knowledge/feeling in the world. =)

[HamletWasBipolar]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 4:09pm

My close friends that have been in Les Miz and Miss Saigon have all agreed that fans are generally harmless and flattering and at the same time a necessary evil. Are they nice at the stage door?? Of course they are...but bear in mind they ARE actors. Go up to their table at Sardi's and you may get a different reception.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 4:20pm

Sardi's? Did you just come to us from the '70s in some sort of time machine contraption?

[HamletWasBipolar]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 4:23pm

LOL...I'm a traditionalist....there are actors, after all that are older than 25.....and Sardi's has been around since the turn of the century, as well as the seventies.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 4:48pm

Don't get me wrong - I definitely still prefer Sardi's to the new places (I'm looking at you, Angus McIndoe), but I didn't know anyone else still did.

[Wanderingchild5]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 5:07pm

When Little Women came to chicago for like 5 days one of the cast members told us that she saw us laughing and responding to the musical.

[zepka102]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 5:15pm

yes, they definitely do... thanks for the reminder mistress :-P

[thevolleyballer]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 5:46pm

When I'm on stage, I talk about the people in the audience ("Did you hear the laugh on that fat woman? My God!"). When I'm at work, we talk about the people who come into my store.

Of course they talk about fans. But even more so... they actually have MESSAGE BOARDS to work with. :)

[thespian geek]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 6:10pm

As mentioned by someone else on this thread, I've had a couple of things I've said on this board get back to me from an actor, so yes... we're at least noticed and most definitely talked about, even when we're not at their shows! Haha.

I had Cara Cooper (Wedding Singer) come up to me at stagedoor and tell me I was doing a great job of representing the front row. Hahaha.... yeah, I get a bit enthusiastic at that show. :-[

As one of them, I must concur. We're often COMPLETELY overlooked by the cast and invisible to the audience

Aw, I try not to! If I'm in the front row and the pit is right infront of me, sometimes I'll peek in and if I'm seen, say hi. LOL I just feel like I'm interrupting something if I make myself known? But I like to talk to some of the people in the orchestra if the opportunity arises - they work just as hard, IMO! :)

[OnMyWay]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 6:37pm

Yeah, EYEdina asked me to be her BFF after seeing me in the front row.

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 6:54pm

I don't ignore the pit! I've been both on stage and in the pit, so I don't ignore. Someone in the Wedding Singer pit aske dme if I read music, and I said yes. He then told me not to look down there, because apparently there was someone who was not doing well with their music, and played the same instruments I do. It was funny.

I've definitely been told by cast members of several shows that they've seen me in the front row. It's generally a good thin

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 6:55pm

Whoa. I forgot about this thread

[MOXIEINTHECITY]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 6:55pm

Actors absolutely talk about fans when they are out or amongst other actors. They discuss us the same way we discuss them.

And as sweet and nice as they are to our faces, they can be just as bitchy about us when they're with friends or cast mates. Which is to be expected. They sometimes feel like they have to be nice to people everywhere they go because they don't want to get gosipped about in a chat room some where the next day. That can build up after awhile.

[ILoveMyDictionary]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 6:56pm

I LOVE the pit! I know that you guys are under appreciated. I've played in a couple of pits myself. I always give you guys the loudest applause, and I wait until you've finished your exiting music and then I clap again.

Anyway, what everyone else said. I know that these boards are read and discussed.

[HamletWasBipolar]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 7:01pm

Not only do the Broadway performers talk about you and consider you to be their buddies, they also have a Broadway fanatic website where they spend countless hours posting things about you and how your workday was and what you are doing with your life. Get a grip people.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 7:03pm

What Moxie said is absolutely correct.

What seems to fly over all your heads is that you are customers to these people. Paying customers. Any of you who deal with customers in your job know that your first duty is to them. It's business. They might like some customers more than others, but the bottom line is, being nice to the fans is smart business savvy. It has nothing to do with their personalities in "real life," nor, necessarily, how they really feel about any of you/them.

ETA: Hamlet, you are quickly ingratiating yourself with me.

Updated On: 8/28/06 at 07:03 PM

[HamletWasBipolar]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 7:12pm

Ingratiating is one of my favorite verbs to perform....ONE of my favorites.