Funny stage door stories..

Good job, Mistress. Geeze!

The night I saw it, Kelli was in the process of un-locking her bike from the bike rack down the sidewalk and Matt snuck up on her and started tickling her.

Oooh, a MONTH. That's so long.. *snort* That just means he's had a month to let the obsession fester and grow.

no darling my desire for a boob job came well before I met Matty, sorry to disappoint you.

well, contacts and new clothes to come soon. new job was the bit of info you were missing...

This is more of a cute one , after Christina's first preformance she comes limping out of the stage door hangign on to her hubby for support and makes an announcment. She appologized for her dancing she was like "I don't know how or why but i thought i hurt my ankle".... you all think i am corny now but oh well i laughed!

That story about Matt is hysterical!!!

Well, the story I have is more funny/crazy. Not something that happened to me but something I witnessed.

So, last Summer my friend and I went to the closing show of Fame On 42nd Street at Dodgers Stages. Anyways, after the show was over we made our way to the stage door. There were a few people waiting by the door for autographs and things like that. I noticed 2 girls speaking in Italian and they seemed really excited about getting autographs so I thought that was cool. Now, how she got autographs and pictures is a whole other story LOL!! One of the girls was fine, the other one not so much LOL!! When cast members started to come out she would literally grab them by their arm, ask for their autograph and say, "take a picture with me I'm from Italy" At one point the stage door guy told her to stop and that she can't be grabbing onto to cast members like that. I thought that was bad but oh did it get worse LOL!! When one of the lead cast members came out the girl literally screamed at the top of her lungs. It was very ear piercing LOL!! I kid you not, the way she screamed it was like as if it was Madonna or Britney Spears had walked out of the stage door. The guy that came out was def. caught by suprise because all of a sudden he backed up against the wall with his hand on his chest and he looked scared. He seemed a little hesitant to take a picture with the girl and sign her playbill but he did anyway. Once again the stage door guy told her that she can't be doing things like that or else she would get into trouble. Did she listen ? No of course she didn't. As cast members continued to come out she'd grab onto their arms and continue to say "I'm from Italy take a picture with me" When one of the other leads came out that I was somewhat friendly with the girl right away grabbed her arm. I felt so bad for her, the look on her face I could very much tell she looked scared of the girl that just grabbed her arm hehe... After that I asked her for a picture and gave her a letter and wished her luck with her future projects. She said she couldn't stay long and I'm guessing she either really couldn't stay or just wanted to get away from the girl hehe....

But, yeah that's my story. There are just some things you can't do when you wait at stage door. And screaming at the top of your lungs and then grabbing cast members by their arm and making them come over to where you are is one of them hehe...

i can't say this is funny, but it was supernatural to me at the time. i grew up enamored of the movie JULIA w/ fonda & redgrave and knew every scene by heart. when v. redgrave was starring in ORPHEUS DESCENDING i hung around the stage door one night when it was about 25 degrees out and very windy. i've never been able to hold onto a pair of gloves since my mother stopped putting the adjoining string on my mittens, so i'm always barehanded. on this night, when v. came out i struck up a conversation with her and she invited me into the Russian Samovar -- where she took her supper every night after the show. once inside, i was shaking my hands to get the feeling back. she seized my hands and said "you're ice cold..." and began to rub and breathe on my hands, just as she did in the reunion scene in JULIA when she and jane fonda see each other for the last time in berlin. i think the tears started in my feet and raced up to my eyes like a rod of mercury. i was too shy to say why.

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I was once walking by the stage door after Raisin in the Sun got out. There was a big crowd waiting for Puffy. Debbie Allen was out there, and I was more excited about that. Anyways, these women were standing in the street blocking cars, yelling "Puffy, puffy", and telling cars to F*** off when they honked trying to get through. Anyways, Puffy came out and go right into his car, and the girls got real angry and started screaming louder "Puffy, puffy". I have a funny pic of the whole hoopla.

My favorite happened to me many years ago. I was a big "Jekkie" when J&H opened on Broadway, but the first time I saw the show I missed Robert Cuccioli when he came out the stage door because he took so damn long (supposedly he showered and washed the gel or whatever out of his hair after every performance).

So...a year or so later I was walking from the Minskoff after a performance of "The Scarlet Pimpernel" I had attended and passed the Plymouth on my way to the car, and there was Robert Cuccioli at the stage door signing autographs. I was only like, 15, so I got really excited and ran up to him and blabbered on about how I had seen him in the show before and had waited at the stage door and he hadn't come out and blah blah blah, and asked him to sign my "Scarlet Pimpernel" program. He then said, using his "Hyde" voice, "You want me to sign 'The Scarlet Pimpernel?'" and wrote "I'm not in this show--Robert Cuccioli." I still have it somewhere.