Have you ever met someone at the stage door who later became a genuine friend?
Have you ever met someone at the stage door who later became a genuine friend?
Fiyero13
Broadway Star Joined: 6/28/07
#1Have you ever met someone at the stage door who later became a genuine friend?
Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:28pm
The reason I ask is because it has been discussed that it is the hope of many to get into people's lives at the stage door and hoping to become their friend just because they meet them.
I never stage door with the intention of gaining a friend but thanking them for their performances but I met someone from the touring cast of a show and then talked for awhile and exchanged myspaces, since then we've communicated pretty often
Updated On: 7/3/07 at 01:28 PM
#2re: Have you ever met someone at the stage door who later became a genuine friend?
Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:31pmLaura Benanti is my BFF and always! TWS Forever! Come out of the dumpster, girlfriend! ALWAYS! It is your wedding day! Watch dat music start to play! BFF 'Nanti. Luvs ya, forever and always! Kiss kiss! BFF! TWS Forever!
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#2re: Have you ever met someone at the stage door who later became a genuine
Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:32pmJust ask Margo Channing.
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#3re: Have you ever met someone at the stage door who later became a genuine friend?
Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:33pmWhile there are a lot of people who I met at the stage door who remembered me later and said hello, only once has someone became a friend. I stage doored Seussical trying to get all 43 cast members to sign my poster. I met Eric jordan Young (now in "Chicago") and over the run of the show, spoke with him several times. When he went to Chicago after the show closed, we continued to see each other and are now friends. There are a few I have emailed with but none who I would consider a genuine "friend" just merely acquaintances.
#4re: Have you ever met someone at the stage door who later became a genuine friend?
Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:33pm
honestly, yes, i have.
i will not mention the name, but whenever my family goes to the city, we meet up for dinner or a show (or a both). i wouldnt say were like best friends by any means, but we email and call occasionally to check up. but thats about it.
but actually, we talked before we met at the stage door...yeah. so its not like we just met at the stage door and became buddies :P haha, no.
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#5re: Have you ever met someone at the stage door who later became a genuine friend?
Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:34pm
During Raul Esparza's run in the revival of CABARET, I was waiting outside of the stagedoor for a friend who was also in the show to head out for dinner. He exited before her; started up a conversation about my coat; asked me what I was doing later; this led to us dating for 3 weeks until his wife put an end to it.
#6re: Have you ever met someone at the stage door who later became a genuine friend?
Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:38pm
Yah, I'm totally BFFs with Jonathan B. Wright. He gave me a voluntary y'know, that's how I know we're friends and will be 4eva!
#7re: Have you ever met someone at the stage door who later became a genuine friend?
Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:45pmHonestly, yes, but I'd only really say I was friends with one or two people. There is a big difference between emailing and keeping in touch and seeing each other at stagedoor and being friends. There are plenty of actors who are sweet and keep in touch after they leave a show, or during its run, but I think the difference is more in...can you talk to them about non-theater related things? Do you? Do you talk to them on the phone/can you call them up if you need to chat? Do you hang out outside of stagedoor, on their request and not just yours? I mean, look at your "non-actor" friends, do you treat whatever actor the same way you treat them? Shrug. It's really subjective, but I think it can be done.
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#8re: Have you ever met someone at the stage door who later became a genuine friend?
Posted: 7/3/07 at 1:51pmWeez, Johnathon Groff gave me a voluntary! We should totes have a double wedding.
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#9re: Have you ever met someone at the stage door who later became a genuine
Posted: 7/3/07 at 2:07pmOh, Lord.
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#10re: Have you ever met someone at the stage door who later became a genuine
Posted: 7/3/07 at 2:16pm
BTW, a "friend" is someone who calls you just as much as you call them...
Nothing amuses me more than when I visit a friend after a show, and there is always that ONE person who acts as if they are good friends with them, and when they walk away, my friend will say "I don't even know their name" or "I'm gonna add them to the security list." Good times...
Updated On: 7/3/07 at 02:16 PM
#11re: Have you ever met someone at the stage door who later became a genuine
Posted: 7/3/07 at 2:24pmLBB is my BFF. she jus doent hav my #
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shesamarshmallow
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#12re: Have you ever met someone at the stage door who later became a genuine
Posted: 7/3/07 at 2:27pmI've made genuine friends at the stage door. But they've been fellow fans, not actors.
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#13re: Have you ever met someone at the stage door who later became a genuine
Posted: 7/3/07 at 2:32pmSame here. :) I've met several actors with whom I've become friendly in the "Hey, I've run into you at Starbucks again, what did you get?" way, but not much more than that.
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#14re: Have you ever met someone at the stage door who later became a genuine
Posted: 7/3/07 at 3:06pmOh I thought you meant becoming friends with fans. Oh well. *leaves*
#15re: Have you ever met someone at the stage door who later became a genuine
Posted: 7/3/07 at 3:49pm
I've corresponded with principals from all three casts of Jersey Boys, and met them in person as well with my family after shows and at public appearances. It's basically for the sake of my teenaged sons, of which one is an aspiring actor in HS and thinks that Broadway is a great starting point for anyone interested in making it a career.
We see the 2nd touring cast of Jersey Boys most frequently, since we watch them every time we can and they also recognize us when we see them offstage. At public appearances, Jarrod Spector and Steve Gouveia know my son very well but we don't smother them after a show or in public because we're not groupies, but just run of the mill fans.
I e-mail JLY, Chris Jones, Michael Ingersoll and Christian Hoff just to thank them for their excellent performances and they reply back, but would not go as far as having my kids keep e-mailing them every day because they have their own lives to live. If we bump into them and chat about what's new, that's cool, but we never try to dig into their personal lives.
Acquaintances are nice to have, and having Tony/Grammy Award winning buddies are even cooler!
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#16re: Have you ever met someone at the stage door who later became a genuine
Posted: 7/3/07 at 3:59pmAwwwww. The 2nd national tour are such a lovely group of boys.
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#17re: Have you ever met someone at the stage door who later became a genuine
Posted: 7/3/07 at 4:06pm
i thought this was gonna be a thread about waiting in line for Jersey Boys Rush in San Francisco! i had no idea so many people actually think they can make a friend with someone they just saw ON STAGE!
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#18re: Have you ever met someone at the stage door who later became a genuine
Posted: 7/3/07 at 4:11pmYes.
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#19re: Have you ever met someone at the stage door who later became a genuine
Posted: 7/3/07 at 4:18pmNo.
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#20re: Have you ever met someone at the stage door who later became a genuine
Posted: 7/3/07 at 4:25pmyes.
#21re: Have you ever met someone at the stage door who later became a genuine
Posted: 7/3/07 at 4:26pm
No.
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#22re: Have you ever met someone at the stage door who later became a genuine
Posted: 7/3/07 at 4:32pm
My mother refers to all the actors I've met as "friends".
It's amusing, to say the least.
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#23re: Have you ever met someone at the stage door who later became a genuine
Posted: 7/3/07 at 4:36pm
My mum refers to John Barrowman as "your man". It's somewhat disconcerting when you're flipping through theatre programmes and she suddenly flaps one in your face going "there's your man there", having found a teensy weensy picture of the National's production of 'Anything Goes'. XD
Mums, eh? :3
#24re: Have you ever met someone at the stage door who later became a genuine
Posted: 7/3/07 at 4:39pmYes. Not exclusively at stage doors, but in fan/actor settings that are similar enough. I think the thing about it is that... if you go with as a fan that intention and TRY, it's not all that likely to happen. The friendships I've formed more or less fell into my lap by good fortune; it wasn't like, "OMG I WANNA BE FRIENDS WITH ____." When you get down to it, it happened like any other "normal" friendship -- we were two people who just clicked.
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