Disney Article On The Stage Door Experience

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 5/29/08 at 1:24am

The Stage Door Experience

By Dana Torres

Going to see a Broadway musical is a special experience. For many, half the fun is what happens after the curtain goes down. It's a tradition for fans to gather around the Stage Door after the show to get a glimpse of their favorite stars. If they are lucky, they may get an autograph or have the opportunity to chat with someone like Sierra Boggess, who plays Ariel in Disney's The Little Mermaid.

"We just wanted to tell Sierra how much we loved her performance," said Beth Looser, visiting from Houston.

Read on...
Disney Article On The Stage Door Experience

[blaxx]

Posted: 5/29/08 at 1:40am

Never thought that Disney would encourage their performers to stage door.

[broadwayrob]

Posted: 5/29/08 at 7:37am

What I love about this article is that it mentions a lot of other main actors in the show with the exception of Sherie.

I thought that was interesting

[winston89]

Posted: 5/29/08 at 9:01am

I am not supriesed to hear that Disney is encouraging their performers to stage door. They want the fans to enjoy their experence at a Disney show and they feel that meeting the actors will be a great way to end a disney on Broadway experence.


Besides, wasn't it in Annalisa van der pol's contract with Disney when she was in Beauty and the Beast that she would sign after? It was clear that she didn't want to do the whole stage door thing by the way she acted each and every time.

[broadwayfan7]

Posted: 5/29/08 at 9:03am

Thanks for posting that!

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 5/29/08 at 9:04am

When I even suggested this concept I was raked over the coals on this board.

[winston89]

Posted: 5/29/08 at 9:10am

What were you raked over coals about? Was it the fact that Disney encourages stage dooring or is it that they had it in the contract of one of their actresses that she would sign and take pictures after a show?

[jordangirl]

Posted: 5/29/08 at 9:14am

Wait, I'm confused. I thought Anneliese kept telling people it was in her contract that she did NOT have to sign. At least that's what some people on here were saying.

[scot]

Posted: 5/29/08 at 9:20am

Yes some actors are all smiles
and enthusiastic about the masses
at the stage door...
but there are some that don't like it
and make their 'tude about it very
obvious. I know a few.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 5/29/08 at 9:37am

Why can't just watching the show, taking part in the ritual of theatre, be enough?

[acrocksyo]

Posted: 5/29/08 at 9:39am

That "article" was just an ad encouraging people to go see Disney shows with the hopes of meeting someone at stage door. Lame!

[Anakela]

Posted: 5/29/08 at 10:41am

That "article" was just an ad encouraging people to go see Disney shows with the hopes of meeting someone at stage door. Lame!

Well of course it is, it is an article about a Disney show that is posted on the Disney website- I find it a lot less lame than that Ashley Brown/Mary Poppins paid advertisement that they have running in Playbill that is mocked up to look like a legit Playbill article- now *that* was lame.

[Fosse76]

Posted: 5/29/08 at 10:54am

"That "article" was just an ad encouraging people to go see Disney shows with the hopes of meeting someone at stage door. Lame!"

I agree. The few times I have waited for a friend of mine to come out through the stage door, I only saw Sierra sign two or three autographs with very little contact with the person before jumping in her car.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 5/29/08 at 11:58am

""We just wanted to tell Sierra how much we loved her performance," said Beth Looser, visiting from Houston."

I think they misspelled her "last name"

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 5/29/08 at 12:26pm

That's what I thought too.

[JRybka]

Posted: 5/29/08 at 1:27pm

I think that the majority of the actors and actresses truly are happy to have fans waiting at the stagedoor. When they leave the stagedoor and no one is there THEN they should worry about it.

Having met many of the actors and actresses at the stagedoor 99% of them have been very gracious.

THE BEST:
LINDA EDER (Who during a cold snap stood outside with us for 20 minutes while waiting for her car service to show)
DEBRA MONK (Who gave me the biggest hug when I told her my drag persona is taken from her Steel Pier charactor)
BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL (who let me hold his dog after a performance of Ragtime)
PETULA CLARK (who made me cry in a good way when I met her after Sunset Boulevard and hugged me and patted my back and then handed me a klennex so I could wipe my tears so I would not be red eyed for our picture together)
SIERRA BOGGESS (who made my partner's day when it was his birthday and we saw the show and she signed a picture saying Happy Birthday to My Prince Mark... Eric Who? Love Sierra)
THE WHOLE CAST OF WITCHES OF EASTWICK (who literally hung out with us after the show to talk about it... there were like 10 of us and we chatted for about an hour)

[KirbyCat]

Posted: 5/29/08 at 4:42pm

Yeah... They also did that *article* thing in Playbill with Sierra Boggess and The Little Mermaid

[winston89]

Posted: 5/29/08 at 7:32pm

My personal view is that no one is forcing the performers to sign. If they want to sign great if not not. But, they shouldn't choose to do it and then have an attitude about doing something that they aren't forced to do.

And jordangirl, if I recall I think the conversation about Annalisa Van Der Pol signing at the stage door went something like this. Someone said that Disney put it in her contract and that they were paying her to do it because just like in this article they wanted to create more of a Disney experience of having the actors interact with the fans. However, one or two people said that equity wouldn't allow something like that in her contract because her contract with the show should basically say that she will do the show and nothing more. I recall that that's how the story went. I don't know for sure if it was in her contract or not.