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Broadway's Society of Repeat Attenders

New York Times article today...is anyone here featured in it????


by Jesse Green

AMONG the 50 or 60 fans waiting behind portable barricades at the stage door to the Plymouth Theater after the Feb. 4 performance of "Brooklyn the Musical," there were quite a few who had been there before. For some - the parvenus - it was only their second or third time; they waited nervously, fiddling with Sharpie pens and camera phones, rereading their Playbills by streetlight. For others, the line and the show had become a regular part of their lives. One of those was Dan Yoffe, a slight Manhattan ninth grader who, despite the cold, had removed his coat, perhaps to show off the gray T-shirt stenciled with the BKLYN logo he wears whenever he attends. The cast members, emerging one by one, instantly recognized him, each taking a moment to sign his program - again.

(edited for copyright)

Updated On: 2/12/05 at 02:54 PM

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Hmmmm. I... don't.... get it. I guess I should understand, being that I cried my eyes out when my favourite show closed, but... Brooklyn? Hm.
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"Dan maintains an anxiously annotated chart of the weekly sales figures on his Web site - but, at least on Feb. 4, they were compensated for the sadness of the curtain coming down by the knowledge that they already had tickets to see the show again. "

Tiny, is that you?
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That is kind of sad, because all Broadway actors I know make fun of people like that backstage... re: Broadway's Society of Repeat Attenders
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Sorry about that...it's on the front page of today's Arts section and is on NYTimes.com (but you have to register).
#7

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I'm already registered, but I can't find it...I searched for the title and author. Hmmmm
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yeah i saw that article. It was interesting. I didn't think brooklyn had fans like that. You learn something new everyday!
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
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It's not on the website yet. Tomorrow, maybe.
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Actually I didnt know Brooklyn had fans at all re: Broadway's Society of Repeat Attenders

Lots of shows have 'repeat offenders'... I'm guilty as charged when it comes to Chicago..... all puns intended re: Broadway's Society of Repeat Attenders
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Its on the website. Thats where I read it.
I want to write music. I want to sit down right now at my piano and write a song that people will listen to and remember and do the same thing every morning...for the rest of my life. - Jonathan Larson. Tick, Tick...BOOM!
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That is kind of sad, because all Broadway actors I know make fun of people like that backstage...

That's very disturbing. Why would they make fun of the very people who keep them employed? Not very grateful at all.

Congrats, Tiny -- I must say, it's pretty impressive to be able to make it into the Times.


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I have to disagree. The cast of Ave Q loves their fans. Having friends who work with the show, the Q group embraces their fans and love coming out to sign autographs and take pics.
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Yeah, the last lines of the article are very strange. As if the writer had to say something quick and hand it in for publication.

Of course the Q gang loves their fans! And we love the Q gang! I was referring to the actors Thesbijean was talking about.
BlueWizard's blog: The Rambling Corner HEDWIG: "The road is my home. In reflecting upon the people whom I have come upon in my travels, I cannot help but think of the people who have come upon me."
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Thanks everybody re: Broadway's Society of Repeat Attenders

"The curtain coming down?"
haha.. I know BKLYN doesn't have a curtain, but I think he
meant the end of the show (not closing).

And Thesbijean, I have to disagree too. I know the cast of Brooklyn, and they love their fans. And like in the article - WICKED fans are not needed to keep the show alive, but at the other hand, BKLYN fans are needed to keep it alive.

http://www.BrooklynTheMusical.info
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Tiny, are you that boy with the BKLYN t-shirt? I read this this morning and thought "wow, this reminds me of BWW." That's so funny!
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