Famous people who you saw at a broadway show- Page 2

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 6/17/06 at 11:40pm

Does Baz Luhrmann count if I saw him at La Boheme, when he was working?

[singingshowgirl]

Posted: 6/17/06 at 11:52pm

Kristin Chenoweth when I saw Caine Mutiny

not sure if this person counts as famous since i don't know her name, but when i saw gypsy, i was seated right by the woman who played Ross and Joey's girlfriend who was a palientologist towards the end of Friends.....

[best12bars]

Posted: 6/18/06 at 12:04am

Okay, this is no joke...

At a performance of Lily Tomlin's "Search..." back in the late '80s, I watched the following people attend a performance and saw them each exit the stage door, one by one, after congratulating Lily on a job well done. To this DAY, I can't figure out if they all just rang each other up and said, "Let's all go TONIGHT."

Katharine Hepburn
Barbra Streisand
Meryl Streep

It was like staring at Mount Rushmore. And there weren't that many people hanging around. Maybe ten total.

As they all walked by me, gawking at the stage door (and I almost dropped my Playbill twice), there were about 30 photographers that all came out of the woodwork and began snapping shots of them frantically. Apparently, someone had tipped them off that it was "celebrity night" at Tomlin's show. Ms. Hepburn took a nosedive into her limo and made a fast getaway. She was wearing a black sweatshirt and blue jeans. No joke. Meryl and her hubby, dressed a bit more upscale, smiled and walked down the street together. I couldn't believe how beautiful she was in person.

I'm not usually the "star struck" type... but I will never forget that night as long as I live.

[broadway_show_fan]

Posted: 6/18/06 at 12:42am

When I saw DRS at the January 7th mat (the day before John Lithgw left, but Parlato went on), John Stamos and Mary Stuart Masterson were in Row J-ish center. I went backstage afterwards with Greg Jbara and was just THIS close to Uncle Jesse!

[CurtainUp]

Posted: 6/18/06 at 12:54am

Best12, that's incredible! Anywho, my parents got a drink at the bar before "After the Fall" and we spotted Kitty Carlisle Hart. She's beautiful! I forget what show, but Robert Goulet walked out of a stagedoor - I think it was after "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."

[broadway_show_fan]

Posted: 6/18/06 at 1:03am

They're not all really famous to the outside world but famous to us Broadway people maybe...

I also saw the Actors' Fund perf of Doubt. I had just seen All Shook Up that matinee and then Sharon Wilkins sat two rows ahead of me. I saw her walk in and there was a crowd of ASU people - Justin Bohon and Julie Reiber and Michael Scott and few more that I didn't see until later, namely Cheyenne. After the show, I waited by the stage door and Bebe Neuwirth came out. =D What a fantastic lady.

[ChildofDestiny]

Posted: 6/18/06 at 1:20am

I was seated next to Rosie the night Madonna saw Taboo! They held the curtain for her...

[broadway_show_fan]

Posted: 6/18/06 at 1:23am

ooooh ChildofDestiny I <3 them both!

[Jim Wazzle]

Posted: 6/18/06 at 1:53pm

Not on Broadway, but during the first tour of Wicked in Los Angeles, I saw Kristen Chenoweth and talked to her a bit. She told me it was her first time watching the show and that it was a really good show. I thought that was funny. She's too cute.

[ljay889]

Posted: 6/18/06 at 2:00pm

Ben Vereen at Sweet Charity.

[renthead333]

Posted: 6/18/06 at 2:02pm

Al and the host of Family Feud at Wicked on Broadway.. haha

[broadwaybaby77]

Posted: 6/18/06 at 2:02pm

Similar to Jim, in London (not on broadway), at "Whistle Down the Wind" we saw Andrew Lloyd Webber and at "Billy Elliot" we saw the Queen of England. Actually, she sat six rows in front of us.

[JustABroadwaybaby2]

Posted: 6/18/06 at 2:05pm

Joan Rivers at Spamalot last year, buying something. She cut in front of us as I was trying to buy a Killer Bunny, only to find that it cost thirty bucks.

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 6/18/06 at 2:07pm

I sat behind Rock Hudson at a performance of "Sunday in the Park with George" and, when I saw Barbara Cook at Michael's Pub, Alan Jay Lerner and his wife were in the audience.

[algy]

Posted: 6/18/06 at 2:15pm

Ok, maybe stupid question (blame the fact that I'm in the UK)

Do celebs pay for their tickets? Do their "people" call the theatre and get comps (house seats maybe)? Or do they use Ticketmaster/Telecharge like normal people?

[Mills]

Posted: 6/18/06 at 2:43pm

This might mean nothing to you as it's a bit UK-centric I think, but here goes,
Matt Lucas (Little Britain) saw an amateur production of Merrily We Roll Along when I did. I was just queueing up to get a ticket, just looking around, then all of a sudden I realised I was standing next to Matt Lucas. Totally unexpected, particularly as it was a small theatre, and an amateur prod.

Brian May at WWRY, but that's another work related one.

Also, points for lamest 'celebrity', I once saw a BB contestant at Chicago. Oh yes. I'm cool. *cough*

[algy]

Posted: 6/18/06 at 3:15pm

(London) I saw Barbara Windsor at Chitty. The wig was incredible!

[alwy15]

Posted: 6/18/06 at 3:30pm

i sat down the row from hillary swank when i saw avenue q. and that same performance, trey parker and matt stone were seated behind me. i called practically everyone in my phonebook.

when i saw pacific overtures, i walked out of the theater alongside candice bergen.

a friend of mine sat next to tom hanks at fiddler on the roof.

[Kitzarina]

Posted: 6/18/06 at 4:20pm

I sat a few rows in front of Jim Carrey at "Urinetown."

[jaesdare]

Posted: 6/18/06 at 4:31pm

I saw and spoke to Sidney Poitier and Emily Skinner at Purlie. I saw David Zippel at Awake and Sing!

[jaesdare]

Posted: 6/18/06 at 4:36pm

I saw and spoke to Sidney Poitier and Emily Skinner at Purlie. I saw David Zippel at Awake and Sing!

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 6/18/06 at 5:13pm

Yoko Ono, Tom Skerritt, and Jeffrey Jones at the final performance of Dance of Death (Yoko cut me in line for the sink in the bathroom).
Yoko Ono and Lindsay Lohan at Lennon.
Nathan Lane at Fiddler on the Roof and Hairspray.
Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft at The Tale of the Allergist's Wife.
Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn at Wonderful Town.
Hunter Foster, Jen Cody, and Stephen Sondheim at Spamalot.
Jane Krakowski somewhere - I don't remember which show it was.

I'm sure there are more - I just can't think of any.

[Eileen2]

Posted: 6/18/06 at 5:53pm

Barry Mannilow at Chita Rivera; A Dancer's Life - I also saw numerous famous faces coming out the stage door afterwards.

Barbara Walters & Matt Damon at The Boy from Oz

Bernadette Peters was supposedly at The Pajama Game when I was on Friday, but I didn't see her in person.

[overthemoo28]

Posted: 6/18/06 at 6:15pm

To answer algy's question (which is not actually stupid at all), producers set aside a certain number of house seats and celebrities have their people call and they get to purchase these house seats.Sometimes they get comped in (it's up to the producers) but generally they purchase their seats.

[smashingasian]

Posted: 6/18/06 at 9:58pm

This technically isn't a show on broadway (it used to be) but at our school's musical Seussical, my friend's grandpa was in the audience. Her Grandpa is Philip Bosco! After the show, he congratulated us... even techies like myself haha