Awkward Stage Door Moments

Sorry to threadjack, esparza, but how did you enjoy the show today? I think I sent my PM telling you to come say hi a bit too late.

When I was younger I waited for Bebe Neuwirth outside the stage door of Chicago and was so eager to get her autograph that I caused her to trip over a garbage can. Fortunately, she was very nice to me.

I witnessed a fight between two groups of stagedoor folks at Hairspray once. It was when Jerry Mathers was in the show. I think they were fighting over where they were standing. I was embarrassed for them, not only at their behavior, but at the way they were fighting over a standing position to meet Jerry Mathers.

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well, at avenue q, my first year going to new york, i met the cast and they were so nice....well, the next day we want to go meet tim curry...so i had a conversation with sara rameriz without knowing it was her...telling her how amayzing the lady of the lake was, and how i wanted to meet her (this was before the show) but i didnt know what she looked like....(Awkward on my part)

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I remember my father trying to get me Sandy Duncan's autograph after a performance of Chicago when he was by himself. He was standing by the stage door and a small blonde woman came out and started signing autographs. He approached her and asked, "Has Sandy Duncan come out yet?" and she said, "I just did."

I sneezed on Bernadette Peters (not intentionally, obviously) after seeing her in Gypsy :x... I was absolutely MORTIFIED.

Updated On: 6/22/08 at 10:54 PM

Singing "Happy Birthday" to Christine Ebersole was also all kinds of awkward, even though it was a big group. And then we had to sing it a second time so her guests could videotape it.

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When I was at the stage door for The Drowsy Chaperone, I was standing on one side of the railing, and Mara Davi was standing on the other side. I went to take a picture with her, and I turned around and leaned against the railing (she was standing behind me in the picture), and the railing fell backwards, causing me and the railing to fall into Mara Davi's arms.

At "Young Frankenstein"...

There was a group of really annoying girls who kept saying "I smell a Tony!!!!!" everytime someone came out. Obvioiusly, their senses need a check-up.

When Sutton came out, she was with a guy I didn't recognize and she was rushing through with nobody recognizing her... except me. I really wanted a picture or autograph, so I just said, "Sutton. Over here?" quite quietly. But, once they realized who was signing my Playbill, she was attacked with requests. She kinda sighed and started signing. I felt terrible.

When Megan came out, a group of schoolboys wearing very traditional Jewish clothing asked me to take their picture with her, but she kinda glared at me and said, "No pictures tonight." So, I'm the bad guy... When she is signing my Playbill, my dad snapped a flash picture of her and she looks up and me and says, "There's always someone, isn't there?" Since she didn't realize he was with me, I kinda went along, bad-mouthing my own father! As she moved on, my dad quite loudly told me what a diva she is. Very awkward indeed.

Not Broadway but when I saw Jersey Boys on tour Zach Prince was on as Frankie and at the stagedoor he signed my playbill then I asked for a picture with him- which he agreed to do so. Anyway, I put my arm around him first and as he began to put his arm around me, he brushed up against my butt and then said "I'm not trying to get fresh with you!" Not awkward for me, but I'm sure he almost died. (Of course I wouldn't have minded if he got "fresh" with me...but that's a whole different story). Oh Zach, how I love you.

Friday night at Gypsy, Patti's son came out and I have a slight crush on him so he came out and I was like "JOSH!!!!!!" and I asked for his autograph and he was like "um... why?" and I'm like "Because you're Patti LuPone's son!!!" so he signs my poster and I'm like "do you take pictures?" and he's like slowly walking away like "no..." Haha. AWKWARD.

glitterandjazzhands, if you're serious, I think what you did was incredibly disrespectful. Her son is not someone in the public eye, he's only 17, and you put him in an incredibly embarrassing and uncomfortable situation. I honestly think that by doing that, you showed that you have no respect for either him or his mother. I wish Patti was there to tell you this herself.

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When I saw Sweeney Todd on Tour.
Mrs Kaye came out, and I had a silver paint pen for her to sign my poster with.

I became mortified when I found out that the pen had to be prepped to use. But she fiddled with it for a good minute before she got it to work, and then signed.

She was amazing too!