Rosie O'Donnell, Joan Collins, James Naughton, Bernadette Peters, Florence Henderson, Michele Pawk, Kate Shindle, a guy from Spin City who's name I can never remember, Julie Andrews, Carol Burnette, Ann Reinking, Walter Bobbie, John Lithgow, Cynthia Nixon, Kylie Mignoge (I dunno how to spell her name), The Rapping Granny (from The Wedding Singer), Bruce Willis, Linda Lavin, George Hamilton, Billy Zane, Caroline O'Connor, Julia Stiles ....
I'm sure there are more I'll think of tomorrow, but I'm soooooo tired right now I can't even think straight!
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Seems like I'm always seeing somebody. Lynn Redgrave at "Long Day's Journey" and Eli Wallach at "Match" immediately come to mind. I also ran into Ann Reinking in the ladies room at "42nd Street".
I feel like I hit the jackpot one Sunday when I went to see "Waiting in the Wings". Daniel Davis, Tyne Daly, and Adam Arkin were all there. Daniel Davis had closed the night before in "Wrong Mountain" and I did walk up to him and congratulate him on his performance. I also ran into Tyne Daly during the intermission and shook her hand. I don't believe I've ever spoken to anyone else.
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Millie Dillmont!!!!!!!!!! You have a pic of Chris Seiber. Lucky you. DId you put him in Fan Photos? I enjoyed him in many shows. He is a doll. Nice guy too.
I would have loved to have sat next to Taye Diggs also.
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Assassins - Sutton Foster and Christian Borle Caroline or Change - Sarah Jessica Parker (surrounded by queens!) Sixteen Wounded - Timothy D Stickney (OLTL) Fiddler on the Roof - sat right behind Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith Urban Cowboy - Neil Patrick Harris, possibly David Henry Hwang Gypsy - Star Jones Take Me Out - Sebastian LaCause Lion King - Ray Romano Taboo - Rosie, Sondheim, Billy Warlock, the older woman from the Citibank ID Theft commercials Urinetown - Joey McIntyre, the cast of Def Poetry Jam Chicago - Jack Wagner and wife (while they were still together)
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
These two were sort of givens, but I saw Baz Luhrmann at La Bohème in San Francsico, and his wife Catherine Martin at La Bohème in Los Angeles. Also saw Viggo Mortenson at the stage door at the latter. Not a Viggo fan, though.
I saw Brian Boitano at closing night of the first San Francisco company of Phantom. (Saw a couple of locla celebs there, too: Henry Tennenbaum and Jan Wahl.)
APOM - Nope, Liza hasn't seen the show yet, and probably won't ever. I believe she said somewhere that it would be too painful to watch dopplegangers of her dead mother and her dead ex-husband/best friend (understandably). But Hugh said in an interview that she did pull him aside once and tell him to do Peter Allen justice and display his generous side, or something like that.
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Why do I feel like this thread has already been done and that I'm about to type the exact same answer I gave over a year ago? The most "celeb sightings" at one show was at La Boheme. I sat near a very loud and obnoxious Lisa Ling who wouldn't put down her cell phone for all of act 1, Mary Steenburgen a few rows in front of her, and Adrien Brody and Orfeh chatting up a storm during intermission. He won an Oscar about a month or so later. Perhaps I should have asked for his autograph, as he seemed more than gracious at the time.
Alfred Molina at "I Am My Own Wife" (which was excellent). It was a Friday 2 pm show, so I guess he had time to get to his evening "Fiddler" performance down the street. He was very nice.
Emily Skinner at Seussical. It was an odd Monday performance the first week of previews, so it was her night off from Full Monty (which I had seen her in two days before).
Christine Baranski - Titanic Oprah - when Phantom first opened Liza - Falsettos Lisa Welchel (sp?) [Blair from Facts of Life] when Les Miz first opened
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Sally Field was sitting a few rows behind me a few weeks ago when I saw Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in D.C. I saw her when I was leaving the bathroom, as she was at the same time... and ended up walking back to my seat behind her... at first I thought it wasn't her, but it definitely was. I think I was staring a bit... but I thought it would be very inappropriate to approach her.
I wish I could see her in Glass Menagerie.
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~Stewart Gilligan Griffin
I saw Mandy Moore, Anne Heche, Billy Crystal, the lead singer guy from The Counting Crows, and Benjamin Bratt at Wicked (on two different occasions, they weren't all at one show)
I saw Bernadette Peters at Avenue Q.
I saw Sutton Foster and Christian Borle at Taboo.
I saw Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft at Thou Shalt Not.
...aside from opening nights where I've seen people those are all I can think of right now.
Back to the question of "special treatment" - celebs call (or more likely have their assistants or publicists call) and get house seats. Full price. Unless it's opening night and they're invited, of course.
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