Celebrities that you've seen other than at a show or at the stage door

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I saw Sutton Foster buying water from some store on 8th Avenue.

my hubby bumped physically into Rod Stewart when straightening up from the jewelry counter at a boutique in Coconut Grove.

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I saw Will Chase on the # 4 subway train, Matt Caplan on his motocycle (he fell off...) and Anthony Rapp at a booksigning, although it wasn't really that coincidential, as it was his own.

What is with me and the Rent cast?

Oh! And Michael Cerveris on Chambers Street.

Updated On: 7/22/06 at 08:55 PM

I saw Sweet Charity June 11, '05 and on June 26th, I was in Shubert Alley and almost literally ran into Rob Bartlett. When I realized who it was I said "Rob!" and he didn't hear me. His younger son (of two) did, however, and kept saying "Dad! Dad! Dad?" until he said "um... Dad... you're deaf!!" and then Rob finally turned around my friend and then talked to him for awhile. =)

Then in January, my friend and I were walking down 8th telling her mom about the time we saw Sweet Charity and how it was Rob Bartlett's first performance in the show that night, how he was fantastic and we loved him, etc. Then we were just saying how we had randomly run into him in Shubert Alley and out of a restaurant comes...

Rob.

And we had just said "Rob Bartlett!" because we were saying how we had run into him in Shubert Alley... and he said, "Yes?"

Needless to say, my friend, Rob, and I all were confused and then laughed for about 5 minutes straight while trying to get the whole story out. He remembered us well and we chatted outside the restaurant (around the corner from where he was playing in The Odd Couple).

Both situations were just the oddest things I'd ever seen in my life.


Besides these...
- John Stamos and Mary Stuart Masterson (who I'm currently watching as Dr. Hendrix on Law & Order SVU, haha) at Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on January 7th. (This was the day I ran into Rob.)
... and others that I can't remember right now...

i saw Diane Sawyer and i just happen to be on the phone with my Grandma (who is her biggest fan ever) and i said "My Grandma loves you" and she said "Is that who your talking to? Let me say Hi!" So, I gave her the phone and Grandma was extremely confused and didn't beleive it was Diane and by the end of the conversation my Grandma called her "some fake wanne be Diane Sawyer" and Diane was extremely upset/mad at me (or grandma)....it was one of the oddest-embrassing-funniest moments of my life...

Updated On: 3/2/20 at 09:53 PM

Barret Foa walking down the street is the only random one I've had.

Anthony Rapp at Angus McIndoe

That guy who is like a professional President Bush impersonator at the Hard Rock Cafe.

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Sharon Lawrence
Matt Cavenaugh
Emmy Rossum
Nikki Renee Daniels
Malcolm Gets
Eric Idle
Cathy Rigby
Howard McGillin
Lindsay Lohan
Tobey Maguire
Wallace Shaun
Harvey Fierstein
Caroline Rhea
James Lapine
Julie Andrews
Glenn Close
Bernadette Peters
John Tartaglia
Michael Cerveris
Richard Griffiths
Ben Folds
John Mayer
Stevie Wonder
Carson from Queer Eye
Edward Albee
Ben Stiller
Roger Rees
Chita Rivera

...just to name a few

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I've seen Stephen Sondheim walking around.

I nearly ran into Denis O'Hare one day, and then once on my way somewhere I walked past Jay Reiss and then not two blocks away Deborah Craig.