Famous people who you saw at a broadway show
Famous people who you saw at a broadway show
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#0Famous people who you saw at a broadway show
Posted: 6/17/06 at 9:05pm
What famous people have you seen at a b`way show?
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
#1re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show
Posted: 6/17/06 at 9:21pm
When I was in New York a couple of weeks ago, the guy that plays Hurly on "Lost" sat two rows behind me. He left during intermission, however.
EDIT: Sorry!!! That was at Sweeney.
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Updated On: 6/18/06 at 09:21 PM
mijofly19
Broadway Star Joined: 6/14/05
#2re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show
Posted: 6/17/06 at 9:24pmThat would be Jorge Garcia. What show was it at?
missyrose87
Stand-by Joined: 2/4/06
#3re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show
Posted: 6/17/06 at 9:29pmI sat next to Pierce Brosnan when I saw the Wicked tour in LA last June
#4re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show
Posted: 6/17/06 at 9:29pmI saw Susan Haskins of Theater Talk and Katie Couric at The Drowsy Chaperone in early May.
#5re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show
Posted: 6/17/06 at 9:34pmI saw Alfie Woodard at a performance of THE PRODUCERS.
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mint0621
Broadway Star Joined: 10/10/04
#6re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show
Posted: 6/17/06 at 9:35pmI saw Jason Mraz at DRS last year.
broadwaybaby086
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/06
#7re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show
Posted: 6/17/06 at 9:38pmI saw John Kassir (from Reefer Madness) and Ashley Williams at The Wedding Singer in May. And I saw Christine Baranski, Jeff Blumenkrantz (famous to some of us, :o) ) and Katie Couric at a few broadway-inspired concerts.
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#8re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show
Posted: 6/17/06 at 9:42pmAlan Thicke at DRS and when I was at the stage door after the same performance, Gene Wilder and his wife walked out.
<--- the set of A Midsummer Night's Dream that I was assistant stage manager for during the 2007 season at the STNJ outdoor stage.
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miss pennywise
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/04
#9re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show
Posted: 6/17/06 at 9:44pm
So many famous people in audiences over the decades, too many to list.
But at one show in the 70s, both Henry Kissinger and Mohammad Ali were in the same audience I was.
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withoutlove78
Featured Actor Joined: 7/13/05
#10re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show
Posted: 6/17/06 at 9:45pmJesse Martin at Color Purple.
#11re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show
Posted: 6/17/06 at 10:02pm
Julia Stiles when I saw 3 Days Of Rain
And not me but when my parents saw Wicked they sat right behind Rosie O'donel (sorry if I butchered her name....long day)
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#12re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show
Posted: 6/17/06 at 10:05pm
Fran Drescher's parents at 700 Sundays
Victor Garber and Craig Bierko at Caine Mutiny Court Martial
Christine Baranski at Doubt
Harris Yulin at Shining City
Mia Farrow and Marissa Tomei at Rabbit Hole
Phil Rosenthal and Monica Horan at The Odd Couple
David Hyde Pierce, Michael Stuhlbarg, Zeljko Ivanek at As You Like It
Eric Idle and Mike Nichols at Spamalot
Updated On: 6/17/06 at 10:05 PM
timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#13re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show
Posted: 6/17/06 at 10:09pmLea Thompson was a few rows behind me when I saw Avenue Q. She used to be famous.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#14re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show
Posted: 6/17/06 at 10:13pmPaul Newman and Joanna Woodward at Seascape
#15re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show
Posted: 6/17/06 at 10:27pmI saw Johnny Depp, Laurence Fishburne, and the lead singer of Counting Crows at Sweeney Todd all in the same night.
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#16re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show
Posted: 6/17/06 at 10:29pmI sat next to Hunter Foster when I saw WIcked in the Summer of 'O4, a couple of days after he had finshed his role in Little Shop.
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"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
#17re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show
Posted: 6/17/06 at 10:33pm
Paul Newman- Pajama Game
Liam Niesan (SP?) - Phantom of the Opera
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#18re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show
Posted: 6/17/06 at 10:36pmThis has been discussed to death, please do a search.
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#19re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show
Posted: 6/17/06 at 10:42pmHugh Jackman and Halle Berry were sitting a few rows from each other, though many from me, at DRS October. Saw Hugh backstage afterwards, he looked really happy to be there again. Angela Lansbury was at The Drowsy Chaperone when I saw it a couple months ago.
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#20re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show
Posted: 6/17/06 at 10:44pm
People don`t like using search to post one thing on a dead board!
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
#21re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show
Posted: 6/17/06 at 10:55pm
I met Bernadette Peters when I saw The Glass Menagerie last year 
she sat 2 rows in front of me
#22re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show
Posted: 6/17/06 at 10:59pmBoth Peewee Herman and Judi Dench were at Spamalot one of the nights I went. It was during BC/EFA and they were offereing a picture on stage with the full cast in costume for $300... Judi Dench did it. :P
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#23re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show
Posted: 6/17/06 at 11:03pm
Mike Nichols and Diane Sawyer at THE DROWSY CHAPERONE
Anthony Hopkins and Billy Joel at HAIRSPRAY
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#24re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show
Posted: 6/17/06 at 11:40pmMary Martin, Ethel Merman, and Cole Porter at the opening night of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Pipe Dream. Loretta Young at The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd, Ivana Trump at Buddy, Joan Blondell at the opening night of Me and Juliet, Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn at A Chorus Line, Lena Horne at Jerome Robbins Ballets USA, Carol Channing at Bring in 'da Noise-Bring in 'da Funk, Kaye Ballard at The Saint of Bleecker Street, Noel Coward at Mary Martin's Peter Pan, Tennesse Williams at Tallulah Bankhead's performance of A Streetcar Named Desire,Hermione Gingold at The World of Suzie Wong, Batty Comden and Adolph Green at a revival of On The Town, the Fade-Out Fade-In tryout in Boston, and a preview of A Doll's Life in NYC, Tammy Grimes and Al Capp at many shows in Boston, Shirley MacLaine at Redhead, Garson Kanin at the tryout of Come On Strong in Boston, Merle Oberon and The Duchess of Windsor at Lorelei, Elizabeth Taylor at Richard Burton's Hamlet, Sammy Davis at Dreamgirls, Betty White and Peter Marshall backstage at Elaine Stritch at Liberty, Harold Arlen and Liza Minnelli at the closing night of Judy Garland at Home at the Palace, Liza Minnelli at the Sail Away concert at the Weill Recital Hall, Walter Cronkhite at Dracula, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. at 42nd Street, Gene Hackman at City of Angels, etc.
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