Funny stage door stories..

[thespian geek]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 2:15am

Okay, so what's a funny stage door story you've got? Either one you've heard or one that actually happened to you. I'm going to post one my friend Jo told me about involving her friend Jessica and Matt Morrison.

So her and her friend Jessica went and saw Light in the Piazza last week. They were outside getting their stuff signed by Matt. Jessica had a broach on her tank top, but it was pinned like right between her boobs. Anywho, this is how their conversation went:

Matt: "That's really nice." (Gesturing to the broach)
Jessica: "Oh, thanks! I got it at Disney."
Matt: (Looks at the broach a little closer) "That's Sleeping Beauty, isn't it?"
Jessica: "Yeah."
Matt: (Goes back to signing her Playbill) "Oh, and just so you know, I wasn't looking at your boobs. Though those are nice, too."
Jessica and Jo and everyone else there: "........."
Matt: "..And I'm shutting up now."


I just thought that was too priceless not to post.

[tmz814]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 2:18am

hahaha... that is hysterical. I can totally see him saying that. lmao

Updated On: 8/25/05 at 02:18 AM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 2:18am

I'm laughing so hard!

[way_to_spend_the_day]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 2:27am

Mine might not be as funny, but maybe interesting....

When I went to see Little Women in previews I got the whole cast to sign my program except for Maureen and Sutton. Well, everyone was getting their playbill signed and Danny Gurwin (who I am obsessed with) walked by quickly without anyone noticing until the little girl next to me asked, "Were you in the show?" and he said he was and turned around to sign all the playbills. Then Christian Boyle (Sutton's boyfriend) walked by and into the stagedoor, bringing her some food (I went to a matinee) and he stayed and talked to us for a while about Sutton. Then Hunter Foster walked out of the stagedoor! He wasn't recognized but then someone said, "That's sutton's brother" I immediately turned around and chased after him. I asked him to sign my playbill and he said something like, "You want me to sign the Little Women playbill?" I was so excited and giddy I just giggled and said it didn't matter. That was the highlight, getting Hunter's autograph, which is simply, Hunter. As if all that weren't enough, John Hickock and I talked about how we were from the same area. Then Bruce Vilanch walked out of the stage door!!! It was just a star-filled playbill signing and I told everyone I talked to for weeks afterward....

Posted: 8/25/05 at 2:33am

oh matt...

[thespian geek]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 2:39am

I nearly pissed myself laughing when Jo told me that. What made it so much funnier for me though, was that that's totally something I'd do. Especially that "And I'm shutting up now" bit - I say that... a lot. LOL

[Thenardier]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 2:41am

HAHAHA!

Well, he walked out and "fake" slapped Kelli's derriere.

That's when I realized I envy him.

[Phantom2]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 2:41am

You can blame Mistress for Matt's obsession with boobs.

[thespian geek]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 2:42am

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.

Posted: 8/25/05 at 2:45am

oh...yeah... its all my fault, he hasnt seen me in over a month... haha.

[thespian geek]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 2:46am

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

[Phantom2]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 2:48am

So, is that why you want to get a boob job so he can't miss you?

Updated On: 8/25/05 at 02:48 AM

Posted: 8/25/05 at 2:55am

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

[Phantom2]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 2:57am

New hair, new boobs...have you reinvented yourself?

Posted: 8/25/05 at 2:59am

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

[TabooPhan1]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 3:03am

Mine's kinda funny, I guess. My mom gets jealous of me because I'm always telling her about the famous people I meet in the city, but she doesn't go in very often, so she's never met anyone. I decided it would be nice for her birthday to take her to see Wicked. While we were sitting there, she saw an ad in the playbill for Sly Fox, and mentioned how much she loved Richard Dreyfuss. After the show, we walked down a few blocks, but realized we needed to get over to times square, so we turned down the nearest block. She nudged me and said, "Hey, there's the theater where Sly Fox is playing!" She was very excited, and having a great time. We were passing by the theater, watching the giant group of people at the stage door, apparently waiting for Dreyfuss, when all of a sudden a door opens literally right next to us, and out walks Richard Dreyfuss! We stopped dead in our tracks and gawked as he walked by, smiled, and said, "Hello!". My mom just stared in disbelief as he passed, the crowd turned (as a whole) and chased him down the street. That's one of the more interesting experiences of mine, other than when Harvey said he'd marry me, and upon seeing a picture I drew of him and Mr. Latessa that said, "You're Timeless to Me!", touching my cheek and calling me a sweetheart! I melted...

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 5:00am

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!

[elphieisperky]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 8:45am

I don't have any funny stories, I wish I did! But when we saw DRS last night, Sherie came out and signed autographs, and while everyone was drowning her with, "Oh, you were so good, you're amazing," she said she had to get back home to her sick baby. I felt kind of bad that we were holding her up, when she looked a little anxious. Then she said the cast was a litte under the weather, and my mom was being a germ freak because we lent her our pen.

[NYCBWAYFan24]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 10:38am

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...

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 10:49am

That story about Matt is hysterical.
I don't really have any funny stories, but here's a somewhat-funny one:

When I saw Little Women back in Feb., Danny GUrwin came out the stage door and was signing playbills, with Megan McGinnis right behind him. He signed mine, and then went on to the next person, and dropped the girl's playbill. Megan saw, and she kind of bopped him on the head and went "*gasp* Danny!" It was cute.
Then...
Everybody had basically left, except for me and my mom, this other girl and her dad. wE were waiting to see if Maureen McGovern would come out. wE had been waiting a really long time, and it felt like 20 below zero, we were freezing.The other girl wanted to go knock on the door and ask if Maureen was coming. I was right by the door anyway, because I was at the end of the barricade, and she went around the barricade to knock on the door. As soon as she had raised her hand to knock, someone started BARKING. Barking and very convincingly sounding like a large dog. We both flipped out. 'Twas very funny. It wasn't a dog though,a s soon as we left we saw the guy come out and take the barricades down.

[Garland Grrrl]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 10:58am

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.

[jonartdesigns]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 11:59am

a couple involving me;

when i went to see the oklahoma revival, being 16 at the time and meeting jessica boevers i literally stood there for like 5 minutes goiung "i...i...i...uhhhhh...i...uhh" it was rather embarassing but my family still howls when its retold.

when i saw millie my mom and harriet harris made fun of some kid due to this conversation;

kidto my mom) hey can i use your pen?
my mom: (waits a beat)...no
kid:oh...ummm
harriet: its for me dear, and unlike him i won't steal it

and then walking down to the block i see john tartaglia and jennifer barnhart (mind you this was about a week after Q won the tony), and i stopped them and went "can you sign me....oh hell *pulling out millie poster* this?" so john, who was on the phone goes "holy **** someone knows me... i gotta go" and signed followed by "avenue q" and i of course told him he got robbed (which he thanked me for but sighted that we both knew that he had no chance) and got jennifer to sign too.

sadly neither of mine can top some of the ones mentioned already but theres my 2 cents

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 12:03pm

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.

[Up In Lost]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 12:08pm

I have a funny story involving Darren Ritchie, and Kerry Butler, but I'm too lazy to type iut just this second. Rofl. Nice, I know.

Edit: Now that I ate a Milky Way...

So, I t was Kerry's last show of Little Shop, and me being a ding-a-ling, had to go to both shows that Sunday. Trust me, it would have been fine if I only went to the night show, but my mom didn't realize there was one, and got tickets for the afternoon show, but then I was like, "But!" And yeah, she got another set for the night show, figuring she'd just swap them with our ticket guy (WHo ROCKS by the way) for the afternoon tickets. BUT! I wanted to go to both, so she let me. Lol. Yeah, Little Shop twice in one day. ANYWAY! Between shows, I was wand(I think it's on 8th) and I found ering around 52nd with my mom, and we happened on that little deli thing on 8th (I think it's on 8th) and found these really cute, colorful flowers. So, of course, I had to get them for Kerry. So, we went back to the theater and figured maybe we'd catch her on the way in, or something. So we were hanging by the planter thing near the stage door, and Darren Ritchie ecomes out, and we kind of just wait a little longer, and he's just standing there, hanin'. Lol. So my mom asks if Kerry was in already, and he goes, kind of curtly,"Yes, and she won't come down, she's already in her make-up." And I was like,"Tell her her stalker is here." She he looked at me like I had three heads, and called upstairs, and LITERALLY said, "Kerry, uh, your stalker is here?" And Kerry came right down!Then, I THINK it was the same night after the show, I was standing at the stage door, waiting for my dad to come around with the car, and Darren walks out, is signing and chatting, and he takes my Playbillm looks up at me and shakes his head and actually nicely said, "DOn't you think you have neough of these?"

ROfl. Yeah. Aw, I miss Little Shop. I know not everybodyloved it, but it was fun. It was a year on like, Monday?Sadness.

Updated On: 8/25/05 at 12:08 PM

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 2:50pm

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.