Backstage??

Like everything else in showbusiness-you gotta know the right people.

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or in my case, were just trying to pick up our pay checks

What show did you visit backstage?

I been backstage to two shows, Phantom and Legally Blonde. MY Aunt bought a tour backstage at Legally Blonde, and I met a stagehand at a bus stop and he invited us backstage to Phantom
I'm going backstage to In The Heights in January, it's a birthday present to me and my cousin
they sell them on charity sites a lot...

"and I met a stagehand at a bus stop"

That tells me ALL I needed to know...

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I have been backstage three times total. Two for Phantom one for Two Cities. For Phantom, I get home the same way as one of the performers in the show. We would always talk on the train ride home etc and it was around the time that my birthday was comming up last year. I asked if I could get that as a birthday gift and she said that that was such a good idea that she wondered why she didn't offer to do it :).

The second time I went backstage of Phantom I was talking to a Phan outside the stagedoor and there was one of the wardrobe people who came outside and saw us there. The girl mentioned that she had came from North Carolina to see the show and the wardrobe person offered her a tour backstage and I sort of some how tagged along.

For Tale, I had been talking to Brandi on facebook about the show etc for a bit of time. I just asked her and she being the nice person that she is said yes. It was kinda funny. We talked about how she and I would have to plan a date. But, there was one night where we bumped into each other after I had just got a ticket for the performance that night and she was arriving to the theatre.
we said hello and chatted for a few and then she asked me if I would like to get my birthday gift early. I said of course and she took me to her dressing room and around the entire theatre. It is kinda funny. I am gladthat she did ti when she did because the next time I was back in town after that was when Tale had its closing weekend.

I met Dana Kenn who is the Broadway set designer for PHantom.
We met at an educational confrnece that my mom was running. She had offered to take me to the show and to take me backstage. Seh aid that with her I could see things that most people there don't really have access to when it comes to a backstage tour.

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told her that I would be seeing the show in December and would like to meet up with her after the show...She was very cordial and poh-pohed getting the Tony.

Grey Gardens wasn't open the December after they won 3 Tony Awards. They closed in July.

This thread is so scary

I've been backstage to almost every single show but I don't find the need to go into detail about every single experience

c'mon people. at least pretend that you have a family or life or job

I went backstage at The Little Mermaid a few weeks ago. Like as a lot of people are saying, you either have to know the right people, or it is pure luck. i know Trevor Braun (Flounder) so that was how I was able to do it. He knew we were coming ahead of time so we were on the list and the security gaurd had my name down and we had to stand on the side of the barricades where the actors came until Trev came out.

I am getting old and forgetful. At any rate, I loved GREY GARDENS--of that I am sure.

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I've only been invited backstage twice, but neither time did it work out. Once for the Les Miserables revival, but the actor that my aunt knew was watching the children in between shows so he was unable to that day, and for A Tale of Two Cities, I got invited on here by the lovely Jill Santoriello (after complaining that they would let absolutely anyone in!) but I was going the original closing weekend (Nov. 16), and figured it wouldn't happen, and then the closing was early...!

Oh well, hopefully it will happen some day!

Winston's story wins the "creepiest" award.