Crazy Stage Door Fans

I work at a theatre on 46th street, and every once and a while I walk home down 47th. Last night I happened to be leaving just as Deborah Cox was coming out the stage door after Aida. So I was walking along the sidewalk on the "other side" of the barrier. It was a crazy scene- a bunch of teeny boppers literally screaming when she walked out the door and people shoving playbills at her and forty five year old women from Tulsa who probably don't get to the theatre much,looking star struck and telling her it was the drop dead most amazing thing they had ever seen. After this the argument came back into my head about "Where does an actors job end?" I have always said that I think it's great to sign for fans and be nice, but after seeing what it is really like last night, I think I would be sneaking out that stage door a few times a week.

That is one thing I look forward to in being soley a stage actress. You have your fans who love you, and ask for autographs, but when you are finished signing playbills, you can just walk down the street like a normal person. For the most part, people other than your fans won't even recognize you.

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