For the most part, I don't approach actors as they show up at their theatre. When the recent revival of Pippin was playing, I went to see it in 2013. Usually, I try to be at the theatre a little early, as I don't want to exhaust myself walking around prior to the performance. I was hanging around the Music Box when I saw a few people hanging around the stage door. One of them was Matthew James Thomas (Pippin). After a while, his friends left. I mustered up the courage to approach him and ask to take a pic with him. He was ever so nice about it. What was so amazing about this was the time. It happened around 7:00 p.m.with the show starting a mere 30 minutes later. I was in awe that he could be so relaxed just half an hour prior to the beginning of that evening's performance. Once, I did approach Brandy (Roxie Hart) as she was arriving at the Ambassador, along with the music director Leslie Stifleman (who I've always wanted to approach but am sort of afraid of her). When I see my favorite show, I sometimes meet a couple of my acquaintances from the show prior to the perf and we chat briefly at the stage door.
"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)
