How can you get backstage tours? (Wicked preferably)
How can you get backstage tours? (Wicked preferably)
Nicholas Clar
Understudy Joined: 9/29/08
#1How can you get backstage tours? (Wicked preferably)
Posted: 12/27/08 at 9:35pmWhat with all this bragging... I would like to try and go back stage at some show. Like I said preferably Wicked but is it like invitation only? It seems easy but a few tips couldn't hurt :)
TheCharleston
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/18/08
#2re: How can you get backstage tours? (Wicked preferably)
Posted: 12/27/08 at 9:37pm
Get on your knees and....
say "please" ?
bwaybri2
Featured Actor Joined: 6/11/08
#2re: How can you get backstage tours? (Wicked preferably)
Posted: 12/27/08 at 9:38pm
Its very tough - you either need to "know" someone - or have won a tour -
try writing a letter to someone in the cast - with your email -
you have not because you ask not -
#3re: How can you get backstage tours? (Wicked preferably)
Posted: 12/27/08 at 9:44pm
It's not that hard. Wicked actually offers backstage tours. Most shows don't.
http://www.broadway.com/Wicked-Behind-the-Emerald-Curtain-Tour/broadway_show/518949
#4re: How can you get backstage tours? (Wicked preferably)
Posted: 12/27/08 at 9:47pmyeah, when my friend and I went backstage at the Kennedy Center for Legally Blonde, it was because her boyfriends mom does costuming, so she gave us a tour and all
#5re: How can you get backstage tours? (Wicked preferably)
Posted: 12/27/08 at 9:49pmBehind the Emerald Curtain is NOT a backstage tour. You watch a video from the house & go though a little museum type area. No backstage at all.
#6re: How can you get backstage tours? (Wicked preferably)
Posted: 12/27/08 at 9:53pm
Behind the Emerald Curtain doesn't actually take you backstage.
http://www.emeraldcurtain.com/WhatIs/FAQs.html#Q0
MissElphie
Broadway Star Joined: 4/4/05
#7re: How can you get backstage tours? (Wicked preferably)
Posted: 12/27/08 at 11:51pmI got backstage at Wicked by winning an auction. The only ways I know of are to win a contest or know someone.
ifuweregay93
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/06
#8re: How can you get backstage tours? (Wicked preferably)
Posted: 12/28/08 at 12:57am
I have asked managaers and always found succsess.
Wedding Singer - Unsuccsesful (first preview)
Little Shop - Unsuccsessful (Asked actor)
Spelling Bee - Succsessful (Asked manager)
Drowsy - Success (Manager)
Avenue Q - Unsuccsessful (Asked actor, who said "absolutly not!")
#9re: How can you get backstage tours? (Wicked preferably)
Posted: 12/28/08 at 1:11amI've been backstage at a handful of shows, but never because I asked anyone for it! I think that's kind of rude and frankly a little weird. It's a dangerous workspace, not a playground.
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DefyGravity777
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/28/08
#10re: How can you get backstage tours? (Wicked preferably)
Posted: 12/28/08 at 8:36amI got backstage at Wicked by being at the right place at the right time. I was standing with a friend that one of the stagehands recognized and I went along with them. It wasn't through any of the performers and I would feel really weird asking one of them for a tour. Even though there are some cast members that have done tours if someone asked them.
wicked4l
Broadway Star Joined: 5/19/06
#11re: How can you get backstage tours? (Wicked preferably)
Posted: 12/28/08 at 8:46amIve been backstage at WICKED 3 different times, the first i wrote David Garrison while on Broadway and he took me back after with Kelly Clarkson! Then on tour in Toronto with Alma Cuervo (Morrible) before the show. and then the lovely Melissa Bohon (Glinda Understudy) took me backstage after the show's stop in Buffalo. Just send letters to actors that have friendly reputations, it doesnt hurt to ask just make sure you give email adresses.
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