#1
Posted: 11/15/03 at 9:39pm
Has anyone had any luck in writing a letter to a theatre to one of its stars where you request an autograph or a signed pic of some sort and actually had success?
#2
Posted: 11/15/03 at 9:42pm
Yes =) Kristin Chenoweth sent me a signed picture after I wrote to her at the Gershwin. Go for it =)
*Don't dream too far, don't lose sight of who you are*
#3
Posted: 11/16/03 at 8:52am
I wrote to Harvey when the reviews of Hairspray just came out. He sent me a very nice autographed picture. When I finally met him at the stage door month later, me mentioned that he responded back to every piece of fan mail, saying if "Ethel Merman could do it, so could he."
Later, he also sent a signed playbill as a donation to silent auction for an educational theatre's benefit here in Chicago.
He's a very gracious and passionate man!
Michael
Later, he also sent a signed playbill as a donation to silent auction for an educational theatre's benefit here in Chicago.
He's a very gracious and passionate man!
Michael
#4
Posted: 11/16/03 at 9:54am
I've also recieved a lovely note from Harvey to. I've heard that if you write a letter to the cast of Nine, they'll send you an autographed Playbill.
#6
Posted: 11/16/03 at 11:30am
Bebe Neuwirth (it took awhile, though).
#7
Posted: 11/16/03 at 11:59am
You might also have better luck if you include a SASE (make sure you put the right postage). =)
#8
Posted: 11/16/03 at 12:06pm
Harvey and Matt Morrison have writen back to me. Both have very nice little note's to :). I'm also waiting to hear from a for a few other people who I just recently wrote to.
Grace: My love for you is like this scar (points to elbow) ulgy but permanent!
#9
Posted: 11/16/03 at 5:04pm
I'm waiting for a package from Kerry Butler. I sent my LSOH Playbill and CD liner notes in a SASE for her to sign.
#10
Posted: 11/16/03 at 7:47pm
YES! Howard McGillin (Phantom) wrote me back!! =-D Hes very nice.
"Life will be frozen peaches and cream.
Baby, dream Your Dream" ~ SC
#11
Posted: 11/16/03 at 7:50pm
Realli BrdwyThtr?! i sent a note to anotonio and jane like 2 months ago and never got anything back =( But probably it was my fault cuz i didnt put a self addressed envelope, even tho sutton still sent me sumthin wen i didnt. =| l8r
"Chicago is it's own incredible theater town right there smack down in the middle of the heartland. What a great city! I can see why Oprah likes to live there!" - Dee Hoty :-D
#12
Posted: 11/16/03 at 8:39pm
Does anybody know the adress to the Gerswhin Theatre stage door? I want to send some fan mail to the leading ladies and an ensemble member I admire. Any help would be grateful!
"They hear drums. We hear music."
#13
Posted: 11/16/03 at 8:43pm
PennyLou, I'm very glad they cut that song from Little Shop. Interesting though. Where did you find that?
Updated On: 11/16/03 at 08:43 PM
#14
Posted: 11/16/03 at 8:46pm
I got a short, but incredibly kind letter from Daphne Rubin Vega (I gave that to her in person, though) and I got a 3 paged letter back from Mayumi Ando from RENT.
"I really liked the show--Wish I saw Boy's Night...Am I allowed as I am not a boy anymore:)"-duffyny1
#15
Posted: 11/16/03 at 9:00pm
Elphie- when I wrote to Kristin, I just wrote c/o the Gershwin Theatre and its address and got something back so I know she received my letter. Maybe try that if you can't get the stage door address. =)
*Don't dream too far, don't lose sight of who you are*
#16
First I have to say that I love your icon, WindyCityActor! HR Puff N Stuff. Sure brings back memories.
2nd I have a confession to make. A long time ago Michael Crawford was doing a concert tour here in Florida and it was around Christmas time.
I'm a very shy person (no comments from the peanut gallery, please because it's true. Believe it or not). Well, I wanted to do something special for him and the cast/crew of the show since they were so far from home at the Holidays. I'm a sorry tangle when it comes to making things but I did learn how to make these little crochet ice skate pins (you use a paper clip to make the blade part). Anyway I must have made at least five or six hundred of them.
Then I cross stitched a Christmas card for different people in the show, including Mr. C.
I then put it all in a box and mailed it to the theater care of Mr. C. Mind you this was long, long before the days of anthrax and mail bombings. I didn’t put a return address on it.
I’ve often wondered if they ever got that box or what happened to it. It was more then likely dumped unopened into a trash can someplace but I hope if not that, the pins brought someone a little happiness that year.
D
Posted: 11/16/03 at 9:05pm
First I have to say that I love your icon, WindyCityActor! HR Puff N Stuff. Sure brings back memories.
2nd I have a confession to make. A long time ago Michael Crawford was doing a concert tour here in Florida and it was around Christmas time.
I'm a very shy person (no comments from the peanut gallery, please because it's true. Believe it or not). Well, I wanted to do something special for him and the cast/crew of the show since they were so far from home at the Holidays. I'm a sorry tangle when it comes to making things but I did learn how to make these little crochet ice skate pins (you use a paper clip to make the blade part). Anyway I must have made at least five or six hundred of them.
Then I cross stitched a Christmas card for different people in the show, including Mr. C.
I then put it all in a box and mailed it to the theater care of Mr. C. Mind you this was long, long before the days of anthrax and mail bombings. I didn’t put a return address on it.
I’ve often wondered if they ever got that box or what happened to it. It was more then likely dumped unopened into a trash can someplace but I hope if not that, the pins brought someone a little happiness that year.
D
#17
Posted: 11/16/03 at 9:09pm
Yes, Frances Ruffelle, Adam Pascal and Sherie Rene Scott. But the one person I would have LOVED to get a response from but didn't was Raul Esparza (and I even sent a BCEFA donation check that was cashed) but I still love him! : )
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away."
#18
Posted: 11/16/03 at 11:30pm
" I'm very glad they cut that song from Little Shop." Interesting though. Where did you find that?
robinyc_us, It's at the end of the new LSOH cast CD. Along with a few other cut songs. I really like it I don't know whay but I do.
robinyc_us, It's at the end of the new LSOH cast CD. Along with a few other cut songs. I really like it I don't know whay but I do.
Grace: My love for you is like this scar (points to elbow) ulgy but permanent!
#19
Douglas Sills is another actor who is said to answer most of his fan mail (he did mine!)
Posted: 11/17/03 at 12:20am
Douglas Sills is another actor who is said to answer most of his fan mail (he did mine!)
"My little boy's home from the Big House!" - Angela Lansbury, Blue Hawaii
#20
Posted: 11/17/03 at 12:51am
Early in it's run, my friend and I wrote to each of the six dudes from "The Full Monty." Recieved a headshot and a signed playbill by the six plus the late Kathleen Freeman from Harold Nicholls aka Marcus Neville, a month later.
A bizarre note including references alluding back to his "Menudo" days was included. Yeah.
A bizarre note including references alluding back to his "Menudo" days was included. Yeah.
"SUNY Binghamton, yes. I'm sure getting a degree from SUNY Binghamton is very useful. Normally to get a degree with that kind of credibility you'd have to study in Guatemala or Haiti."
Updated On: 11/17/03 at 12:51 AM
#21
Posted: 11/17/03 at 4:33pm
Thanks Broadway Gal!
I'm sending a letter out to Sutton some time soon and Idina, Kristen, and Derrick Williams on the Ensemble.
I'm sending a letter out to Sutton some time soon and Idina, Kristen, and Derrick Williams on the Ensemble.
"They hear drums. We hear music."
#22
Posted: 11/17/03 at 4:35pm
Some people who dont answer are Manely Pope- at least not to mine of RENT and Justin Johnson who I also wrote of RENT. I gave up after 6 months of waiting and now it has been about a year. O well, I know they have lives but just a little response would literally make my life!
"They hear drums. We hear music."
#23
Posted: 11/17/03 at 4:56pm
I didn't write to a theater he was performing at, but I got a very gracious letter with autographed headshots from Anthony Crivello.
"You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" --Family Guy
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
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"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
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#24
Posted: 11/19/03 at 11:44pm
I received a very nice note for Jennifer Gambatese of Hairspray recently. She was very fast with a response and very nice in the note. Also she definitely gets bonus point for neat legible handwriting it's which is more then I can say about my own handwriting lol.
Grace: My love for you is like this scar (points to elbow) ulgy but permanent!
#25
Posted: 11/19/03 at 11:54pm
I wrote a letter to Chita Rivera after seeing Nine and received a very sweet hand-written letter back in about 2 weeks.
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