Crowds at Stage Door

[AnothaPartofMe]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 5:47pm

Based on your own experience, when is it best to get to an uncrowded stage door? And which shows have the least crowd? Each time I've waited, it's been a weekend show and crowded, plus I also waited for Hugh Jackman on the second to last day of BFO's closing and Wicked on a Saturday day.

Also, has anyone met Wayne Brady before or after CHICAGO? How is he at the stage door?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 5:54pm

As a general rule, it's probably best not to go before a show. Wicked is always, always really crowded. Aida was nuts toward the end.... I hated that. It totally depends on the show. Last Winter, Avenue Q was really quiet - you could get inside to where the stage door actually was. Now there are barricades and you can't.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 6:01pm

wayne is very nice....he gets there an hour before the show and leaves at 10:20, as soon as its over.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 7:03pm

That's kind of sad that people know the exact time that actors get to a show. If I were Mr. Brady I'd be a LITTLE scared. That's probably nothing compared to Idina - people probably know her entire morning routine by now and when she's due for her period. Haha.

I stopped waiting at stage doors - the last one I waited at was NINE at the final performance of Antonio, Jane, Chita, etc. That production of NINE is one of the most moving things I've ever seen, and by that time I had seen the show so many times that I couldn't not thank them all and meet them again. But wow - the people outside that day might beat out the currect Wicked stage door-stalkers. My shoes got all scuffed up and I practically got trampled. I don't understand how people can act like taht.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 7:05pm

munkustrap -

at chicago, the guys who work there told me that wayne gets out at 10:20. when i saw it with him at a matinee, he came in around 1.

for the idina thing, there was an article about her daily routine in the NY Times a few months ago

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 7:09pm

I was joking - more or less. And i wasn't talking about Idina's getting ready to PERFORM routine. I was joking, again, way to get sarcasm, I was saying that people are so absolutely NUTS that they probably know Idina's exact car, lisence plate, what time she wakes up, what shampoo she uses, and pointless ****. And I wouldn't be surprised if people hadn't run after her car before. That's all I was saying. Sarcastically.

[JaYdOgSoN]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 7:14pm

wayne was extremely nice. i saw him before the show as he went in, he stoped and signed even thou he was on his cell phone.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 7:16pm

i know you were being sarcastic....i just wanted to clarify what i was saying so nobody would think that i have this stuff memorized (tho for the most part i do, since i collect playbills and autographs). the most mobbed stage door ive ever seen was wicked, but boy from oz is tied for that.

[Plum]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 7:17pm

If you don't want crowds, wait until those nice 0 degree nights in the winter. :) Of course, then the actors might not stick around long, either.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 7:18pm

For some reason, I love waiting at stage doors when it's really, really cold out. Just dress warmly.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 7:18pm

You wanted to clarify that so people wouldn't think you had times memorized.

Ok.

Then in the next sentence you say you DO have them memorized because you collect autographs.

Am I missing something...

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 7:23pm

i standby what i said.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 7:24pm

You sound like George Bush.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 7:26pm

::Bush is only for now::Bush is only for now::Bush is only for now::

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 7:29pm

I'm speechless I can't even think of anything to write, because obviously nothing will generate a comprehensive response from you.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 7:34pm

To read more incomprehensible sayings, I suggest you go onto the White House's website and search under "George W. Bush."

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 7:34pm

Better yet, go to google.com and type "worst president," then click on IM FEELING LUCKY. It's quite amusing.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 7:38pm

at first, i thought that was sarcastic...then i actually typed it. that made my day, munk.

[andyf]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 7:42pm

Hahahaha, the picture really just makes it that much better.


It's like someone set off the BatSignal or something.

"WORST PRESIDENT??? RIGHT HERE!!"

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 7:43pm

Exactly. I honestly hope he's assassinated. Can I say that on here? Well, I just did.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 7:45pm

everybodys got the right to their dreams

[LyTeMyCanDyI]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 7:51pm

"I'm speechless I can't even think of anything to write, because obviously nothing will generate a comprehensive response from you. "
You've got no idea, munk, no idea!

[Mythus]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 7:52pm

Yankeefan, I'm listening to that right now. Everybody's got the right to some sunshine! Not the sun, but maybe one of it's beams...

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 8:00pm

mythus, u have no idea how much it irks me off that i went to the bathroom during the electrocution scene and missed it. assassins was great.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 11/7/04 at 8:01pm

Don't worry, you didn't miss anything. He just sat there in a chair. It was lame.