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

[zepka102]

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show#125

Posted: 3/22/08 at 2:36pm

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.

::bust a move::

[MuppetManiaMan]

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show#126

Posted: 3/22/08 at 4:25pm

I saw both Victoria Clark and Jeff Goldblum at "Spelling Bee" about 2 years ago.

[footlights2]

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show#127

Posted: 3/22/08 at 5:57pm

Jerry Seinfeld at Monty Python's Spamalot.

[Princeton78]

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show#128

Posted: 3/22/08 at 6:24pm

-Glenn Close at Company
-Paige Davis and Leon Hall at 110 in the Shade
-Oprah, Gayle King, Michael Lipton, Joel Grey, Elizabeth Ashley, Mike Nichols, Diane Sawyer, & Elaine Stritch among others at Three Days of Rain
-Gavin Creel at Drowsy Chaperone

"Y'all have a GRAND day now"

[WickedBoy2]

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show#129

Posted: 3/22/08 at 6:31pm

Bette Midler at 'Hairspray'

A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!'' Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'

[winter_sky]

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show#130

Posted: 3/22/08 at 6:34pm

Jeff Goldblum at Spring Awakening
Alec Mapa at Next to Normal
Conan O Brien at The Apple Tree
Um, Lindsay Lohan's mom at Legally Blonde

[givesmevoice]

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show#131

Posted: 3/22/08 at 7:02pm

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

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

[Chenofan #1]

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show#132

Posted: 3/22/08 at 10:48pm

2 out of the 3 times I saw In The Heights before bway, I saw two people. I sat right next to Stephen Schwarts the first time, and saw Amanda Bynes the second. I saw Andie McDowell at Legally Blonde, Lucy Arnaz at Xanadu, I know I saw a lot of others, but I can't think of them now.

And.....SCENE!

[kikki327]

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show#133

Posted: 4/3/08 at 12:56pm

I saw Lea Michele at Grey Gardens

[BkCollector]

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show#134

Posted: 4/3/08 at 1:14pm

I saw next to Jessye Norman during a performance of The Search for Intelligent...in the Universe.

I remember because Lily Tomlin was sick and you could hear she had a cold. Ms. Norman and I had been chatting before the performance started (I felt bad for whoever was sitting behind her, she's HUGE!) and when Tomlin stopped to walk offstage for some water, she turned to me and said "I wish I could do that on stage"

I almost cracked up.

[Unknown User]

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show#135

Posted: 4/3/08 at 1:18pm

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.

[Jonny boy]

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show#136

Posted: 4/3/08 at 1:24pm

I saw Vanessa Williams at The Wiz in La Jolla

[RobinM]

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show#137

Posted: 4/3/08 at 1:27pm

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

[Ole Chum]

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show#138

Posted: 4/3/08 at 1:34pm

i have insane luck in this department.

i cant even keep track of how many bwaycelebs ive seen but the biggest heavy hitters:

- Al Pacino (next to me) at Long Days Journey Into Night
- Nicole Kidman a few seats away at Sweeney Todd
- Harrison Ford at RENT
- Steven Spielberg at Rock N Roll
and my favorite:

- sat next to Monica Lewinsky at TickTickBoom

[WestVillage]

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show#139

Posted: 4/3/08 at 1:35pm

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)



Updated On: 4/3/08 at 01:35 PM

[dna3003]

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show#140

Posted: 4/3/08 at 1:52pm

Liza Minnelli at Grey Gardens (I asked for a photo with her outside at intermission, she gave me a hug instead)

Judy Collins at Elaine Stritch At Liberty At The Carlyle opening night

[Ed_Mottershead]

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show#141

Posted: 4/3/08 at 2:05pm

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

BroadwayEd

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

[broadwayjim42]

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show#142

Posted: 4/3/08 at 2:16pm

John James (Dynasty) with his kid at Beauty and the Beast

Laura Bennett and Patricia Heaton (and husbands) at The Little Dog Laughed

Andrea Martin and Nathan Lane at Xanadu

Goldie Hawn, Kate Hudson, Victor Garber seated in front of and behind me at Encores "Lil Abner" in '98.

Mario Cantone at The Women--in the same cheap balcony seats as the rest of us)

I'm sure there are others, but my favorite is the most recent...John Waters at "August Osage County." I actually grew some nads and said hello, that I was a huge fan and immediately ran back into the theatre. He was very sweet about it.

ETA...Arthur Miller at the 1985 revival of "Death of A Salesman." He autographed the copy of the play I had with me.
Updated On: 4/3/08 at 02:16 PM

[vinnylin]

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show#143

Posted: 4/3/08 at 2:30pm

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!)

"This is wanting something, this is reaching for it, This is wishing that a moment would arrive. This is taking chances, this is almost touching, what the beauty is." --The Light in the Piazza

[DMsquared2]

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show#144

Posted: 4/3/08 at 3:13pm

The lead singer from Counting Crows at the revival of The Glass Menagerie with Jessica Lange.

[amalou]

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show#145

Posted: 4/3/08 at 4:14pm

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

"But I can tell you that Raoul, who was so handsome in "The Phantom," is now a drunken wreck."

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

[lstbutifulgrl2]

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show#146

Posted: 4/3/08 at 4:14pm

Tyra Banks and Jesse McCartney (not on the same night) at RENT
Cynthia Nixon at ITH

"Sometimes on the strip, the dreams you come in with, ain't the dreams you leave with" ~Rock of Ages
"I'm a butterfly, trivial and small, and in the greater scheme of things, I don't mean much at all." ~The Story of My Life
"Forget Regret, or life is yours to miss." ~Rent

[Calvin]

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show#148

Posted: 4/3/08 at 5:12pm

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

[bertandrew2]

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show#149

Posted: 4/3/08 at 5:18pm

Wow...so, so many over the years. Some that come to mind include...
Andrew Lloyd Weber at Baz Lurhman's La Boheme
Comden and Green at Bells Are Ringing
Martin Short at Spamalot
Bob Fosse at Dancin' (and also at the movie All That Jazz)
Lemme think who else..

[PalJoey]

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show#150

Posted: 4/3/08 at 5:27pm

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.