Creating a survey in regards to Stage Dooring (for the Actors)

Hi there, I am in the midst of putting together a program about stage dooring and wanted to create 2 separate surveys to send out to (1) fans like yourself and (2) actors on Broadway. I am currently working on the second and trying to come up with a few questions to ask in the surveys. Here is what I have so far and would LOVE to hear if there is anything you’d like to know from the actors perspective of stage dooring.

Thanks for your help and I’ll post again when I create the survey for all of YOU to fill out!

• What is one of the most unique fan requests and/or fan gifts you’ve ever received?
• Do you have any pet peeves about the whole stage dooring experience? Ex: Do you mind selfies?
• Do you remember the first time you stage doored as a fan?
  

Updated On: 11/6/17 at 04:24 PM

I like "the stage door experience"

Stage dooring (for better or worse) has become a part of common usage. That's how words come into being....by being used. It would be wrong to use it in an essay or published work, but in this case? Totally acceptable.

Oy this is bringing up my biggest pet peeve of this board...a grammatical error doesn't invalidate someone's logic. It can hurt their credibility, yes, but it has nothing to do with an argument at hand. You know what Stage Dooring is. Just because it's not in the dictionary doesn't mean it isn't vernacular.

JSquared2 said: "Let me write Page One for you

"DOOR" IS NOT A VERB!

You're welcome.



"

You mean you can't just verb a noun?

Now, getting back to the actual post....

JBroadway said: "Forgive me if I'm wrong, but the way you phrased that post made it seem like you're allowing you're distaste toward the practice to influence whether or not you think it should be a word, which doesn't really make sense. Your dysentery pun is clever, but it doesn't really serve to negate anything I said, so I'm not really sure what to make of it.

And what's so grotesque about making a noun a verb? It happens all the time. People "skateboard" to work, and "winter" in the Hamptons, and "sandwich" between two people, and "flat tire" someone when walking in front of them."

OK, two things: Of course language flows, and nouns become verbs all the time!I don't think it's inherently grotesque to turn a noun into a verb, although it can be irritating based on personal preferences (like all things!). But I do think in this case, it legitimizes the increasing grotesqueness of the experience at the stage door.

Of course, it really will depend on how many working actors s/he actually gets to respond. W/o a reasonable sample, there isn't much to be gotten.

uncageg said: "Maybe ask how they feel about "fans" showing up with items to sign other than Playbills or programs from the show they are currently in. There are people who do not see the shows but show up to get bags full of items signed. I know of some actors that will not sign these items knowing they may show up on ebay."

This comment reminds me of when I stage flores Dear Evan Hansen and Michael Park called out someone doing this. I remember a lot of people thought he tweeted negatively about stagedooring due to how fans were allegedly acting but in my experience he seemed genuinely happy with the enthusiastic fans and only upset when he noticed someone hopping down the line to repeatedly get things signed, so I feel his tweeted comments were more likely aimed at these people.

In the same vein as your question, but different, I'm curious, actually, as to how actors feel about fans who did not come to the show at all in general. As well how other fans feel about that.

"Oy this is bringing up my biggest pet peeve of this board...a grammatical error doesn't invalidate someone's logic. It can hurt their credibility, yes, but it has nothing to do with an argument at hand. You know what Stage Dooring is. Just because it's not in the dictionary doesn't mean it isn't vernacular. "

It really amazes me how people on here seem to get so bothered by these type of mistakes made by total strangers. If you get the point of what they are trying to say is it really that big a deal if they made grammatical error.

I’d like to ask the actors how they feel about the fact that people sell items they sign at the stage door or via fan mail.

edmundog2 said: "I can't believe people are actually arguing over whether verbing nouns is a legitimate linguistic construction. "

You can't? Have you ever hung out with copy editors? We're the worst.