Ever have someone be rude at a stage door?- Page 5

[Tom5]

Posted: 8/8/18 at 8:26pm

I can guarantee that there are more than a few actors who will not do Broadway because they don't care to run the gauntlet night after night.

[MannPhan24601]

Posted: 8/8/18 at 8:38pm

Sarah329 said: "I saw Kinky Boots today and there were so many people that kept asking “Oh when is David Cook coming out? I’m his biggest fan?” and one girl even seriously said that she wasn’t a fan anymore, all because he didn’t come out after a matinee on a 2 show day. Personally, I believe it’s fine to ask a security guard if an actor comes out or is coming out, but I think it’s disrespectful to ask castmates. Imagine saying hi to fans and instead of them being thankful for you coming out, they ask for someone else. Maybe that’s just my opinion?

Just because you’ve been a fan since the beginning doesn’t make you entitled to meeting them!!"

LOL.David always says that he never comes out on two show days (And he did his weekly radio show today ) That fan should be following him on social media /interviews 

[msmp]

Posted: 8/8/18 at 8:46pm

Skip23 said: "Not rude, but....

Celeste Holm would only give an autograph if the signee gave money to her for Unicef.



Wonder if Unicef ever saw the moolah?

My guess is yes; this wasn't uncommon once upon a time. During WWII and the Korean War, Mary Martin only signed autographs (by mail, at least) if people sent in a donation for the USO.

 

[BroadwayRox3588]

Posted: 8/8/18 at 8:58pm

Sarah329 said: "I saw Kinky Boots today and there were so many people that kept asking “Oh when is David Cook coming out? I’m his biggest fan?” and one girl even seriously said that she wasn’t a fan anymore, all because he didn’t come out after a matinee on a 2 show day. Personally, I believe it’s fine to ask a security guard if an actor comes out or is coming out, but I think it’s disrespectful to ask castmates. Imagine saying hi to fans and instead of them being thankful for you coming out, they ask for someone else. Maybe that’s just my opinion?

Just because you’ve been a fan since the beginning doesn’t make you entitled to meeting them!!"

I've heard horror stories about Cookies in the past. It seems that some of them still haven't learned.

[yankeefan7]

Posted: 8/9/18 at 12:49am

"Next to Normal: 

Had great experiences with the cast, but Ben Stiller was in the audience and stage doored with the rest of us non-famous people...really cool guy!"

Alice Ripley was fantastic to my oldest daughter at the stage door when we saw "Next To Normal". She noticed my daughter's NYU bag and then started talking to her about college and theater. The stage door was not crowded that night (early in the shows run) and she must have spent 10-15 minutes talking to us.

 

[Lauren2]

Posted: 8/9/18 at 12:52am

I had a really rude lady at Harry Potter. I got there right after it was over and got a spot at the front. The Harry Potter stage door is really long so people don't need to piling on top of each other, but this night people did. This lady with her daughter was behind me and was yelling at me and calling me names because she wanted her daughter to go to the front. There was no room next to me on either side and it was already getting crazy. Than I had someone else I met at the stage door take photos of me with the performers. This lady was so rude that she kept putting her daughters poster that she wanted signed in front of my face and in front of the camera when I was with the performers. And the funny thing is her daughter got all the photos she wanted and got like the 5 different things they bought signed so there was no need to act like that.

[mailhandler777]

Posted: 8/9/18 at 1:02am

Last night David Cook got an autograph from Carrie St Louis at the Kinky Boots stagedoor...haha. It's on her Instagram story.

[disneybroadwayfan22]

Posted: 8/12/18 at 6:35pm

The PRETTY WOMAN stagedoor has been one of the rudest of my life.

So Samantha and Andy couldn’t do it because they had an event to go to. Samantha ran to her car, but she waved to everyone.

Meanwhile, someone caught Andy sneaking away from the door. B/c people are rude, EVERYONE LITERALLY STOPS HIM AS HE WAS GETTING INTO HIS CAR! The poor guy looked so nervous.

Dear people: If an actor is seen sneaking out from the stagedoor, YOU DO NOT STOP THEM. They CLEARLY don’t want to be there for a reason and they don’t give you a right for a selfie and a autograph.

[natashalost]

Posted: 8/12/18 at 6:41pm

I already posted this in another thread but I thought it would be fitting here:

I went to see [Boys in the Band] recently and had a good time at the stage door. I don't normally post when I see people acting weirdly at the stage door but this has to be one of the weirdest experiences I've had so I thought I would share. 

When I went to the stage door there was this fan behind me, and it was very clear she had seen the show, and been, to the stage door plenty of times (she remembered the security guards by name and they remembered her too) but was here again tonight. She was pressed up against my back, as it was pretty crowded, and was literally shaking. She had several bags she was digging through to find whatever she had and was dropping things everywhere.

When each actor came out she gave them a photograph of her and the actor, that she had personally signed for them, and asked if they could sign a larger photo of the two of them. Then she had her Playbill from this particular night and another pride playbill for them to sign. Additionally, she would ask everyone if they remembered her and then recount some story of her previous encounters with them, some stayed and listened but others quickly moved past to get to other fans. And she was screaming the entire time.

She was also talking to the security guards, referring to them by their first names, and asking them to pass things along to the actors when they came out.  

I've seen people do this sort of thing for one individual actor at shows but she did this to literally everyone. It was upsetting because I wanted to just say something quickly to a few of those who came out but she took the time away from everyone around us. No one else got time to talk because of her. But the show was fantastic and I'm happy that while the stage door experience wasn't my favorite thing in the world, the show definitely was!

Updated On: 8/12/18 at 06:41 PM

[Speed]

Posted: 8/12/18 at 7:09pm

No one is admitting what this is all about. People stage door because THEY WANT TO BECOME FRIENDS WITH THE ACTOR(S). Or they even want to date one. Talking to them at the stage door makes you feel like they're your friends and that's what you want. Saying "I want to thank them for their performance" is BS. The standing ovation you gave them has already expressed that.

Second of all, no actor is "the sweetest person ever" because they'll talk to you. You are not experiencing real life with them.

Truth.

That said, I'm a well known actor and I like talking to my fans and I have become friends with some of them.

[Sarah329]

Posted: 8/12/18 at 8:49pm

The Anastasia stagedoor can be absolutely awful at times, but Christy Altomare is the sweetest person I’ve ever met. She takes so much time to talk to everyone, usually she comes out last so everyone can take pictures, always loves gifts and art, and makes sure to sign everyone’s playbills. I gave her art I was working on for a few months and she was tearing up and gave me a few hugs.

[oncemorewithfeeling2]

Posted: 8/12/18 at 9:47pm

Speed said: "No one is admitting what this is all about. People stage door because THEY WANT TO BECOME FRIENDS WITH THE ACTOR(S). Or they even want to date one. Talking to them at the stage door makes you feel like they're your friends and that's what you want. Saying "I want to thank them for their performance" is BS. The standing ovation you gave them has already expressed that.

Second of all, no actor is "the sweetest person ever" because they'll talk to you. You are not experiencing real life with them.

Truth.

That said, I'm a well known actor and I like talking to my fans and I have become friends with some of them."

THIS IS SO TRUE AND NEEDS TO BE POSTED ON TUMBLR AND IN PRINT FORM AT MANY STAGE DOORS.

[JayElle]

Posted: 8/15/18 at 11:28pm

Speed wrote, "///People stage door because THEY WANT TO BECOME FRIENDS WITH THE ACTOR(S). Or they even want to date one. Talking to them at the stage door makes you feel like they're your friends and that's what you want. Saying "I want to thank them for their performance" is BS....Second of all, no actor is "the sweetest person ever" because they'll talk to you. You are not experiencing real life with them. 
...That said, I'm a well known actor and I like talking to my fans and I have become friends with some of them...."

Well Speed, identify yourself b/c your posting is just BS.  I have no interest in becoming friends with any actor, much less dating one. For the few times I did SD, I did say "Thank you, Mr. X or Ms. Y for your performance and your kindness to take the time to meet with us today."  That is called manners and respect in case you never heard of the terms.  And yes, I have met some "kind actors," who were kind enough to put up with the most incredibly rude, self-absorbed, disinterested people I've ever seen.  I've never asked for a selfie. I never asked anyone to sign multiple copies of junk including Playbills so I could sell them online.  

I lived next door to Sylvester Stallones' father for years and never felt the need to be authenticated by that individual.  We are all folks on this earth.  So I don't know what cretans you've encountered, but your reality isn't mine. I love the shows and I respect the performers. And no, I don't expect them to "be my friend." That's what we all have Mr. Rogers for...a neighbor and friend, even if in memory.

[JayElle]

Posted: 8/15/18 at 11:32pm

Okay Once More With Feeling....They (actors) all want to talk with you?  Duhhhh..... Zach Quinto and Jim Parsons didn't SD for the entire run except for the first and last weeks.  And no, they didn't want to talk...they wanted to get the hell out of there b/c of crazies on the line. Parsons and Quinto both snuck out the front door to avoid all.  Only the same 5 of 9 cast members would come out religiously.  You could ve started a new psych ward with the folks on that SD line.  These actors have reason to fear the crowds, and when the Boys in the Band did SD, they did it with a fast and fury.