Famous people who you saw at a broadway show — Page 6

Saw Vanessa Williams at Tarzan. We were sitting next to Chicken Little (forgot his real name) from American Idol... that was within a month of him being booted. He was pretty nice. I felt like a bodyguard with all of the little girls coming down to see him during intermission. They were all on top of me trying to get to him.

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Jerry Seinfeld at Monty Python's Spamalot.

Bette Midler at 'Hairspray'

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Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates were at the Sweeney revival when I saw it in August.

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I saw Lea Michele at Grey Gardens

Lucas Grabeel of High School Musical fame at Spring Awakening. Poor guy was sick with a cough (it was in December, and it was raining) but he was still very sweet to everybody who saw him.

I saw Jane Fonda and Eve Ensler (they were together) at "The Little Dog Laughed".

And I sat right next to Celeste Holm and her young husband at Mickey Rooney's show (not on Broadway, but exciting nonetheless).

Updated On: 4/3/08 at 01:27 PM

Ethel Merman at Coco
Lucille Ball at They're Playing Our Song
Lauren Bacall at Company (Roundabout revival)
Hal Linden at Shenandoah
Henry Fonda at Applause
Barbara Walters at The Producers
Bette Midler at Martin Short's show (she was the "guest")
Donna Murphy, Donna McKechnie, Victoria Clarke at Gypsy (City Center)
Bernadette Peters at A Chorus Line
Joel Grey at Next To Normal
Lucie Arnaz at Some Men
Gilda Radner and Mary Tyler Moore at Pirates of Penzance (at the Delacorte)

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Anthony Quinn at Some Men Need Help (he asked me where the bathroom was)
Liza Minelli and Andy Warhol at the same performance
Ethel Merman at Torch Song Trilogy -- she looked very unhappy with the show but went backstage anyway to tell Harvey Fierstein how much she didn't like it (he tells the story on himself). Everyone in the Little Theatre (Helen Hayes now) was trying to look nonchalant as they tried to peek at Ethel but the look on her face would have discouraged anyone.
George Bush, Sr. and Barbara Bush at The Producers
Johnny Mathis at Black and Blue
Thomas Dewey at Major Barbara
Maurice Evans at something I don't remember the name of
Walter Matthau at Long Day's Journey Into Night (Jack Lemmon version)
Rosalind Russell at Ages of Man (Gielgud one-man show)
Helen Hayes at Smile -- she autographed the program for me, which still hangs in a place of prominence in my apartment

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Updated On: 4/3/08 at 02:05 PM

Sam Waterston at Cymbeline
Baryshnikov at the Beaumont (I'm pretty sure it was one of the parts of Coast of Utopia, but definitely it was at the Beaumont in any event)
Robert Sean Leonard at Company
Kristen Johnson at the Atlantic Theatre (a production last season, possibly the Voysey Inheritance)
Neve Campbell at Rent (back when Party of Five was still on the air!)

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When I went to see Lennon, Yoko was sitting a few rows behind me. No matter what people think of the show, that was surreal.

I also met Boublil and Schonberg at the final performance of Pirate Queen. There was a crowd of people at intermission getting autographs so I thought, what the heck? It was a total Christmas Story moment though. I was speechless. "Football...what's a football?" LOL

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Updated On: 4/3/08 at 04:14 PM

When I saw "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," Boom Boom from "Welcome Back Kotter" was there.

One night at Encores--Sweet Adeline, I believe--I saw both Betty Comden and Kitty Carlisle Hart.

THAT was New York.

I peed next to Bob Fosse at the old Broadway Arts rehearsal studios, cigarette dangling from his lips as he stood at the urinal, deep in thought, but I've told that story before.

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