Broadway fans who cross boundaries — Page 3

Lot666 said: "ermengarde said: "don't get me started on the real life "shippers". The people who think actors who are just friends should be dating"

Ugh. The worst of this, IMO, is the longstanding "Rierra" crowd who think that Ramin Karimloo is going to marry Sierra Boggess. It started back when Ms. Boggess was dating Tam Mutu in London, and it still persists (they use #Rierra on social media), despite the fact that Mr. Karimloo has been happily married the whole time and has two children with his wife. Those peoplebehave like 15-year-olds in high school and they reallycreep me out."

Ok, that's creepy and crosses a line. Especially if - they're tagging these actors when they do this on social media? No.

I still don't see how someone seeing a show "too much" is crossing boundaries. Who is even defining too much? Hell, to someone who only sees any show once people who see a show twice are seeing it too much.

So much "ew" going on in this thread.



Do I care how many times anyone sees a show? Not really, doesn't mean I won't think it's extreme - but I also don't think what I think should effect the situation.

Anakela said: "Lot666 said: "ermengarde said: "don't get me started on the real life "shippers". The people who think actors who are just friends should be dating"

Ugh. The worst of this, IMO, is the longstanding "Rierra" crowd who think that Ramin Karimloo is going to marry Sierra Boggess. It started back when Ms. Boggess was dating Tam Mutu in London, and it still persists (they use #Rierra on social media), despite the fact that Mr. Karimloo has been happily married the whole time and has two children with his wife. Those peoplebehave like 15-year-olds in high school and they reallycreep me out."

Ok, that's creepy and crosses a line. Especially if - they're tagging these actors when they do this on social media? No."

Yep, they regularly respond to these actors' social media posts and tag them #Rierra.

Anakela said: I still don't see how someone seeing a show "too much" is crossing boundaries. Who is even defining too much? Hell, to someone who only sees any show once people who see a show twice are seeing it too much."

I agree. If you're not hurting anyone and your affinity isn't diminishing the experience for others, then what you see and how often you see it is your business. You do you.

ermengarde said: "What about the fanfiction someone wrote where another real life person- who was performing opposite Sierra in Phantom and getting in the way of their ship- attempted to sexually assault Sierra and she was saved by Ramin? That was disturbing."

This one has been coming up lately. When people go to see shows, and expect to go backstage.

I feel like some stagedoors are also a little more well run then others? I can remember at the Hamilton stagedoor the security guard walking down the line before the actors came out and telling everyone some ground rules, what to expect, ect.

poisonivy2 said: "I'd also turn it around and say that there are also certain well-regarded Broadway stars whose social media interactions with their fans makes me uncomfortable. Javier Munoz is one -- I have nothing but the utmost respect for him as an artist, but I've seen him needlessly be rude to or egg on fans on social media which causes a hot mess of deleted tweets and bad feelings. Cynthia Erivo is another. I also remember one time Laura Benanti took to social media to complain that she didn't get enough applause from an audience member in the front row.

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Have you seen Javier’s latest IG posts? I have defended him before but man, this latest is over the top. One of the risks you take as a celeb with a public account on social media is to have annoying followers. He doesn’t seem to get that and takes things personally.

Anakela said: "Babe_Williams said:
Have you seen Javier’s latest IG posts? I have defended him before but man, this latest is over the top. One of the risks you take as a celeb with a public account on social media is to have annoying followers. He doesn’t seem to get that and takes things personally.



I just scrolled through Javier’s last four Instagram posts, and I didn’t see anything problematic in any of them?The most recent concerns Trump’s words to Obama during Obama’s government shutdown, second most recent is a Tweet from Bernice King, before that is a long text post asking what are you going to do today to put your words into actions, and before that is another text post about start posting what you believe, and stop posting just to get the attention of celebrities. And then I didn’t care to scroll any more, so I stopped.

It would be helpful to post a link when talking about something being “over the top.”

Yes, maybebeing a celeb means having annoying followers, I’m not interested in that debate. But even if I agree yes, I don’t agree that being a celeb means you have to engage with or give any attention at all to your annoying followers, so if Javi chooses not to well then more power to him."

I’ll be clear, I don’t think any celeb owes any fan anything, but turning off comments and basically telling your followers to quit trying to get your attention seems a bit much. I support the marchers, I get what he was going for, but it’s all a bit extra. The fans who are already politically active will remain so, the ones who annoy him won’t stop regardless.

What I don't like about Javier Munoz on his social media is how he seems to think that having cancer and being HIV+ puts him in this unique position and that no one else can understand all that he's been through. I don't agree with this. I don't think that his medical ailments give him a carte blanche to lecture fans about what's important and what's not and to be rude to them. His responses to fans often make me uncomfortable for that reason.