Broadway Celebrity Sightings — Page 5

#101

re: Broadway Celebrity Sightings

Posted: 12/13/05 at 12:19am

This didn't occur recently, but my mom met Katherine Hepburn. We used to live next door to the Actor's Fund Home in Englewood, NJ, and Ms. Hepburn had been visiting some friends there. We had a bunch of firewood for sale in our front yard (from a tree that fell down in a storm), and Ms. Hepburn bought some of it!

It was amazing!

---

On the road of life, do not pause for suicidal chipmunks who freeze in your headlights, seeking death by your tires...

#102

re: Broadway Celebrity Sightings

Posted: 12/13/05 at 2:15am

I forgot one...I saw Bebe Neuwirth in the post office on 14th Street a few months ago. She was with this really hot younger guy and they kept making out. It was so hard not to stare, not because they were making out, though, but because she's Bebe Neuwirth!

---

"Free from what, Tracy? Free from what?"

#103

re: Broadway Celebrity Sightings

Posted: 12/13/05 at 6:30am

Brooke Sheilds sat behind my grandma during Rent...lol

---

--Alex-- "They're singing, "Happy Birthday" You just wanna lay down and cry Not just another birthday, it's 30/90 Why can't you stay 29 Hell, you still feel like you're 22 Turn 30 in 1990 Bang! You're dead, what can you do?" --TTB

#104

re: Broadway Celebrity Sightings

Posted: 12/13/05 at 1:25pm

Just remembered....I was at Chatterbox this past May and Jose Llana was the guest. Jay Reiss and Sara Saltzberg were there in the audience. Got to talk at length with Sarah and a bit with Jay. 2 extremely nice people. I seem to be drwan to this cast for some reason! I figure I will meet the rest of them when I am back in May!!! (For those of you who didn't read my 1st post, I met Jesse Tyler Ferguson at the Sweeney matinee on Nov. 16th)

---

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

#105

re: Broadway Celebrity Sightings

Posted: 2/8/06 at 2:34pm

Liev Schreiber was in the audience at Sweeney Todd last night. Boy, is that man tall!!!

#106

re: Broadway Celebrity Sightings

Posted: 2/8/06 at 2:43pm

Kathryn Erbe from Law and Order Criminal Intent (shes vincent donofrio's partner I believe) at Piazza on Saturday night.

#107

re: Broadway Celebrity Sightings

Posted: 2/8/06 at 2:44pm

I saw Lindsay Wagner (the Bionic Woman) on the will call line at Mamma Mia.

#108

re: Broadway Celebrity Sightings

Posted: 2/8/06 at 2:44pm

I saw Lindsay Wagner (the Bionic Woman) on the will call line at Mamma Mia.

Updated On: 2/8/06 at 02:44 PM

#109

re: Broadway Celebrity Sightings

Posted: 2/8/06 at 2:48pm

At Kristin Chenoweth in Concert Joel Grey was sitting behing me... Alec Baldwin was also there !

ps. i think i am a legend now

#110

re: Broadway Celebrity Sightings

Posted: 2/8/06 at 2:54pm

question for everyone...

when you see these broadway stars... do you approach them?

just wondering, because...I mean, what do you say without sounding like a complete dork like "I'm such a fan".

So basically, how do you strike up friendly conversation with a broadway star without sounding like a teeny bopper?

---

"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit"

-Feste from "Twelfth Night"

#111

re: Broadway Celebrity Sightings

Posted: 2/8/06 at 2:57pm

Sometimes it is as simple as a wave or a smile and a head nod... "the aloofer the better" as my girl Chartity would say.

#112

re: Broadway Celebrity Sightings

Posted: 2/8/06 at 3:13pm

Anthony Rapp walked by me last time I was in NYC, I was so stunned I just stood there, he kept walking. I still wish I would have said "Hi", but I guess it's better this way, he probably didn't wnat to be bothered anyways.

#113

re: Broadway Celebrity Sightings

Posted: 2/8/06 at 3:28pm

- Alec Baldwin @ Wonderful Life Benefit
- Meg Ryan, Dennis Quaid, Jeremy Irons in Hongkong (few yrs back)
- The actor from 'Bugs' on Broadway & 75th ST (what was his name again?)
- Christian Borle, Sutton Foster, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Nathan Lane, Bebe Neuwirth @ Sweeney Todd
- Julia Roberts @ Liam Neeson's final performance in London (few yrs back)

---

That's the trouble with this song. It goes on and on and on.

#114

re: Broadway Celebrity Sightings

Posted: 2/8/06 at 3:59pm

-matthew morrison walked into applebees (where i work)
-also met the producer of Hairspray, Sweeney, and The Producers at Applebees
-3 days ago literally ran INTO hunter foster on 8th ave (was turning a corner...oh lord)

---

I was lost 'til I heard the drums, then I found my way

#115

re: Broadway Celebrity Sightings

Posted: 2/8/06 at 5:03pm

Years ago I sat in front of Phyllis Diller at Falsetto's.

Brooke Shields was a regular at this little bakery I worked at while she was doing Cabaret. She told me that the thought of doing the show made her sick to her stomach and that was how she knew she had to do it. After her run started she would not speak and only write notes to me. She and Chris Henchy would buy boxes of cupcakes for their cab drivers.

#116

re: Broadway Celebrity Sightings

Posted: 2/8/06 at 6:04pm

-seth rudetsky, hank azaria, hunter foster, patrick wilson, jen cody all at sutton foster's joe's pub concert a few weeks ago
-kelly ripa and faith ford at lennon back in september
-taye diggs stood next to me at curtain call for idina's "last" show last january.
-deborah craig was hanging out after lennon one night with julie danao
-sarah jessica parker and matthew broderick around columbus circle

#117

re: Broadway Celebrity Sightings

Posted: 2/8/06 at 6:42pm

At DRS last year I met Jack O'Brien (this was still early in performances I believe), Idina and Taye. Taye waved to me when I was waiting at the stage door, I just about fainted and Idina looked over and smiled.

Two nights before that, Steve Bushemi and Dan Akroyd were two or three rows behind me at Spamalot.

Cheers,

C.

---

www.christopherviolett.com

#118

re: Broadway Celebrity Sightings

Posted: 2/8/06 at 6:58pm

Oh, boy that I do. I'll only include the best.

Wicked- Liza Minnelli
Little Shop- Hunter and Jerry Zaks (closing)
Little Women- Audra McDonald, Christian Boyle, Jason Howland (spl.)
La Cage- Barret Foa
WIW- Frenchie Davis, on the walk to the theatre.


Now, out of theatre:
Diana DiMarzio on the Street
Ben Magnuson- Duane Reade (same day too!)
Kelli O'Hara- in cab to Piazza (thanks to C)
Ginnifer King- Walking home after Magnolias
And more that I can't remember right now.

---

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird

#119

re: Broadway Celebrity Sightings

Posted: 2/8/06 at 8:55pm

Saw Mark Schoenfeld (Brooklyn Writer) walk through the wind tunnel under the Mariott today with a really hot girl....

#120

re: Broadway Celebrity Sightings

Posted: 2/8/06 at 9:24pm

I've seen Greg Jbara walking toward the DRS theatre four times now.

I ran into Mary Bond Davis on the street and had just seen Hairspray the week before. I actually stopped her and she was so excited to be recognized.

While at Hairspray stage door Lucy Liu came out & was followed by Steven Spielberg.

Frances Sternhagen, Judith Light, & Jonathan Jackson at Dedication or the stuff of dreams.
Edie Falco & Lorraine Bracco at People are Living There.
Anthony Rapp at Sides - at the Culture Project - he was there to support his boyfriend who I'm very angry to report is adorable. so there's no hope for me.

---

"It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present." - Ms. Beale

#121

re: Broadway Celebrity Sightings

Posted: 2/8/06 at 10:11pm

"Saw Mark Schoenfeld (Brooklyn Writer) walk through the wind tunnel under the Mariott today with a really hot girl...."
It was probably the girl for his new show or the girl that is going on tour in Brooklyn as Faith.

---

"I never had theatre producers run after me. Some people want to make more Broadway shows out of movies. But Elliot and I aren't going to do Batman: The Musical." - Julie Taymor 1999

#122

re: Broadway Celebrity Sightings

Posted: 2/8/06 at 11:09pm

Gretchen already posted one of my favorites (Kate Reinders & Megan McGinnis at Chitty) but she didn't mention one of the funniest "sightings" ever.

Idina following us to the subway. No, not just casually walking behind us. You know what people walk so close behind you that you want to stop so they'll run into you? Yeah, that close. And we had just been to See What I Wanna See, so it was slightly awkward.

And running into Kelly Karbacz at Starbucks is one of my better moments -- but I don't really count that.

---

"The tick BOOM tick BOOM is so loud I can't hear the rain on the grass. I can't hear the wind. I'm about to scream. But I realize I'm not alone."

#123

re: Broadway Celebrity Sightings

Posted: 2/8/06 at 11:19pm

Carson Kressley from Queer Eye at the Spelling Bee adult show in Jan.

---

i grew up 13 miles north of bohemia and 31 miles northeast of hicksville.

#124

re: Broadway Celebrity Sightings

Posted: 2/8/06 at 11:22pm

I ran into Michael Arden at Juilliard a few months ago; I was so shocked I couldn't even say anything...but he glanced back at me :) I melted....

#125

re: Broadway Celebrity Sightings

Posted: 11/17/07 at 6:58pm

I could have sworn we had a more current thread on this topic but I couldn't find it searching so I'm reviving this one. I was wondering if anyone was at the matinee of Xanadu today because I could have sworn Carrie Underwood was sitting in the center section onstage. Or am I just crazy?