Gifts?
Gifts?
#0Gifts?
Posted: 2/28/05 at 7:26pmHave you ever given a Broadway performer a gift? If so, who and what did you give?
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#1re: Gifts?
Posted: 2/28/05 at 7:27pmit doesnt count as a gift, but more actors than i can count have taken sharpies from me and never gave them back......
#2re: Gifts?
Posted: 2/28/05 at 7:29pmha!
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
Elphaba4
Featured Actor Joined: 1/5/05
#3re: Gifts?
Posted: 2/28/05 at 7:30pm
I bought Idina Menzel a "Wizard of Oz" Christmas ordament of the Wicked Witch of the West melting. I thought it was the coolest thing. I even bought one for myself!
"There will always be women in rubber flirting with me"
~Maureen, RENT
#4re: Gifts?
Posted: 2/28/05 at 7:32pmI haven't, but thought about getting something small and cool for Sutton like a fan book of me and my friends about how we think she's great. And I'm gonna make a thing for Joanna Gleason and Sherie Rene when I see DRS they rock my world!
www.christopherviolett.com
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#5re: Gifts?
Posted: 2/28/05 at 7:34pmI gave Marc Kudisch my flower.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
#6re: Gifts?
Posted: 2/28/05 at 7:35pmaww flowers are nice Matt
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
Born2cthelightsofbway
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/04
#7re: Gifts?
Posted: 2/28/05 at 7:37pmI have given numerous broadway performers flowers.
"You alone can make my song take flight, it's over now, the Music of the Night!!!!!"
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#8re: Gifts?
Posted: 2/28/05 at 7:37pmLOL
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
#9re: Gifts?
Posted: 2/28/05 at 7:41pmi gave jeffrey carlson a life size tootsie roll lollipop, and i gave cheyenne jackson and elvis goody bag. yea but flowers i have given as well and little notes that say how they did great job.
"But I relish every brillant inspired moment. This is who I'm determined to be- an actor/singer/dancer-no, I take that back, this is who I am. These people are my tribe, my destiny. I know it.
-How I Paid for College; A story of sex, theft, friendship and musical theater.
#10re: Gifts?
Posted: 2/28/05 at 7:46pm
Matt! Why on earth would anyone want to deflower Mr. Kudish!? 
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#11re: Gifts?
Posted: 2/28/05 at 7:51pmI gave Jeffrey Carlson a bag of chocolate peanut crisps.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#12re: Gifts?
Posted: 2/28/05 at 8:03pmI think it's so sweet that you guys gave your favorite performers your flowers, also.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
#13re: Gifts?
Posted: 2/28/05 at 8:09pm*giggles*
I want to write music. I want to sit down right now at my piano and write a song that people will listen to and remember and do the same thing every morning...for the rest of my life. - Jonathan Larson. Tick, Tick...BOOM!
whatyouown223
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/4/05
#14re: Gifts?
Posted: 2/28/05 at 8:22pmI gave Kristin and Idina hand towels with hearts on themm...*shrug* maybe they're in their kitchens!
#15re: Gifts?
Posted: 2/28/05 at 8:33pmI gave Michael Berrese my phone number. Now he won't stop calling me! Geesh. Last time I ever do that.
"Y'all have a GRAND day now"
#17re: Gifts?
Posted: 2/28/05 at 8:48pm
Princeton you're a hoot! Maybe I'll give some random chorus member my number. That might be a little extreme. LoL 
www.christopherviolett.com
#18re: Gifts?
Posted: 2/28/05 at 8:55pm
Flowers are the extent of it basically. For one show (Cavalia...not broadway but an amazing show nonetheless), I brought one of the performers a boquet of flowers and I actually got to go up and give them to her during curtain call. She seemed very flattered which made me glad I bought them for her.
I wanted to get something that an "ex"-junkie like him would really appreciate and cherish....it's a brick of heroin shaped like a heart.
-Scrubs
Kicks8567
Broadway Star Joined: 6/15/03
#19re: Gifts?
Posted: 2/28/05 at 9:22pmI used to collect Disney pins and I read that Kerry Butler did too, so I included a couple of princess pins with my fan letter to her.
#20re: Gifts?
Posted: 2/28/05 at 9:29pmSchlomo from the original North American Touring Cast of Fame stole my favorite pen.
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
#21re: Gifts?
Posted: 2/28/05 at 9:32pmI had a hard time wrestling with this idea in the fall. I wanted to give someone a little "going away" gift, and I just had no idea what to get. Not really the kind of guy you could give flowers to, even though that's easy.
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#22re: Gifts?
Posted: 2/28/05 at 9:36pmOther than flowers to a small number of female performers, the only thing I have ever given someone was a small hand written note on a blank note card. I enclosed a picture of the two of us, and actually, I think he *did* read it.
"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL
#23re: Gifts?
Posted: 2/28/05 at 9:36pmI'd have given this *someone* a watch. Maybe then they can get to places on time!
I want to write music. I want to sit down right now at my piano and write a song that people will listen to and remember and do the same thing every morning...for the rest of my life. - Jonathan Larson. Tick, Tick...BOOM!
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