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How many Broadway people did you meet?

Posted: 6/13/05 at 10:51am

I don't want this thread to be only about actors and actresses you've met on Broadway, but I want it to be other people like composers and musical directors as well.

Well, after the first time I saw Avenue Q, I met John Tartaglia. I met Mark Schoenfeld, the composer/lyricist/writer/creator of Brooklyn before and after the show! I went to a concert at Readers Digest in Mt. Kisco and I met Christine Andreas. I got to have a chat with some of the members of the casts of Peter Pan (1999 revival), The Music Man (2000 revival), and Into the Woods (2002 revival). And I was very close to meeting Kristin Chenoweth backstage at the City Center ENCORES! mounting of The Apple Tree, but since she was on her cell phone, I did not want to be rude. So I have yet to meet her!

"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!" - Jimmy Durante "Breathe from your hoo-hoo." -Kristin Chenoweth

Updated On: 6/13/05 at 10:51 AM

re: How much Broadway personnel did you meet?

Posted: 6/13/05 at 11:59am

I'm changing the topic title of this thread so that people can understand what this is?

"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!" - Jimmy Durante "Breathe from your hoo-hoo." -Kristin Chenoweth

re: How much Broadway personnel did you meet?

Posted: 6/13/05 at 12:12pm

Man of La Mancha - The night before it closed, I stayed behind and got autographs of Brian Stokes Mitchell and Marin Mazzie and talked to them a bit.

The Lost Colony (Manteo, North Carolina) - One night of rehersal, I went there and got to talk to Terrence Mann, who was directing it. He was pretty busy so it wasn't that long.

Fiddler on the Roof - One Saturday before a matinee, I waited by the stage door and got to meet Alfred Molina. Got a picture with him too!

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re: How much Broadway personnel did you meet?

Posted: 6/13/05 at 12:14pm

Stephen Sondheim walked right pass me at Ravinia, but he was in a rush, so I didn't bother him. I THINK I saw Stephen Oremus come out of the Cadillac Palace Theatre (where ASU played pre-broadway) but I wasn't 100% sure. I also think Joe Dalude (Wicked Makeup artist) came out of the Oriental Theatre stage door on Saturday...again, not 100% sure it was him though.

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re: How much Broadway personnel did you meet?

Posted: 6/13/05 at 12:15pm

That's more like it.

"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!" - Jimmy Durante "Breathe from your hoo-hoo." -Kristin Chenoweth

re: How much Broadway personnel did you meet?

Posted: 6/13/05 at 12:18pm

at the dracula closing i met the cast after the show and frank wildhorn before it started. i also saw chuck wagner.

when i saw dirty rotten scoundrels i met the cast (not joanna!!) and i saw Christine Taylor there.

i met bernadette peters after i saw gypsy!

i also met robert lopez and jeff marx after i saw phantom one time. they were at the stage door cause it connects to Avenue Q's.

re: How much Broadway personnel did you meet?

Posted: 6/13/05 at 12:51pm

hmmm the last trip to ny I met the entire cast of DRS backstage, entire cast of chitty (including one very nice man who loved that my sister and i had a tick tick boom playbill- you can guess who)...
at the showbuisness screening, I was sitting next to one of Jeff Marx's friends, and I got to talk with him for quite a bit (I just adore him)
while my sister was talking to Euan Morton...who I eventually got to meet and talk with. I can check that off my things to do before i die list. I am still of awe of that experience. but i won't gush

On other trips I have met and talked with adam pascal twice, entire ensamble of wicked backstage, two different casts of aida, entire cast of cabaret during the closing week, hmmm there's a lot more but i can't really think of any at this moment.

As far as how..lets just say my sister and i have a knack of being in the right place at the right time.....
well my sister does..and i just follow

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re: How much Broadway personnel did you meet?

Posted: 6/13/05 at 1:00pm

After Wonderful Town-I met Nancy Anderson briefly and got an autograph and talked for a bit with Donna Murphy.

After La Cage-Meet and got autographs from Michael Mulheren, who is SO nice and from Gavin Creel. Almost got Gary Beach's but didn't.

After Dessa Rose-Met Norm Lewis and talked with him for a few. ALSO met Stephen Flaherty. Later that week I met Lynn Ahrens as well. And just missed LaChanze, someone occupied her time and then she just disappeared and Rachel looked like she was in a hurry so we didn't stop her.

After DRS-Meet and got autographs from Norbert, John Lithgow(really nice), Gregory Jbara(talked to him and discovered he grew up about 5 minutes away from my dad), and Sherie Rene Scott who is such a sweetie.

After Q-Got Ann Harada and Barret Foa's autographs.

After Little Women-Met Sutton, got an autograph and a pic. Also met Larissa Shukis, Megan McGinnis, Maureen McGovern, and Janet Carroll. Janet and Maureen were a hoot together and Janet also pointed out an interesting typo in the Little Women souvenir program.

That's about it so far. I really wish I could go back to New York this summer, but doubt it's going to happen. But we'll see.

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re: How much Broadway personnel did you meet?

Posted: 6/13/05 at 1:02pm

Ruby Keeler / Alexis Smith / Judith Ivey / Shirley Jones

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re: How much Broadway personnel did you meet?

Posted: 6/13/05 at 1:24pm

Over 20 years, too many.

"You're every gay man's wet dream!" ~ MA

If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...

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re: How much Broadway personnel did you meet?

Posted: 6/13/05 at 1:26pm

That's because you work it baby.....

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Posted: 6/13/05 at 1:43pm

I just met Victoria Clark after Light in The Piazza on saturday night - she's the most gracious young woman - beautiful, charming, takes an interest in her fans. We had a lovely conversation with her and won't forget it for a long while.

"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!" Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!

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re: How much Broadway personnel did you meet?

Posted: 6/13/05 at 1:47pm

Avenue Q - the entire cast (the original cast).

The Frogs - Roger Bart.

The Producers (the tour) - Alan Ruck. He came on our shuttle bus. It was awesome.

La Cage - William Ivey Long (my friend and I went to the fourth preview, and we saw him sitting a few rows in front of us, so we talked to him - and then I pointed out that Jerry Herman was sitting at the end of our row (!!!), but we didn't approach him because we were too nervous), Harvey Fierstein, Gary Beach, Daniel Davis, Michael Benjamin Washington, and one of the Cagelles (we didn't recognize him and we can't read his signature). I think that's it.

Oh, and I met Jacob Brent after he was in CATS at North Shore Music Theatre. So that's...more than fifteen.

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re: How much Broadway personnel did you meet?

Posted: 6/13/05 at 1:57pm

so you mean, only tech people? i guess i don't remember people's titles when they introduce themselves. Plus most people don't say "hi I'm jon smith, the light board operator for Les Miz". That would go in one ear and out the other to me. Guess I'm shallow.

I took a class from Mandy Patinkin.

Christine Andreas complimented my cocktail hat in the ladies john after a workshop she was in.

does Tom Wopat count? i had a call back where i had to sing some duets w/ him.

I'm not gonna list my actual friends who are working on Bwy but not really "names".

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Updated On: 6/13/05 at 01:57 PM

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re: How much Broadway personnel did you meet?

Posted: 6/13/05 at 2:07pm

Oh, yeah, I forgot, I know Merwin Foard (he plays M. Renaud, the waiter, in La Cage aux Folles.) His wife, Rebecca "Becky" Baxter, is my singing teacher.

"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!" - Jimmy Durante "Breathe from your hoo-hoo." -Kristin Chenoweth

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re: How much Broadway personnel did you meet?

Posted: 6/13/05 at 2:40pm

Hahaha that's right Marquise! I do

"You're every gay man's wet dream!" ~ MA

If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...

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re: How much Broadway personnel did you meet?

Posted: 6/13/05 at 2:48pm

Unfortunately no one

but I have met a few famous people not from broadway. I still have tons of time to go meet people!

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re: How much Broadway personnel did you meet?

Posted: 6/13/05 at 3:57pm

Donna Murphy
Shawn Elliott (one or two 't's?)
Cherry Jones
Sarah Paulson
Fran Weissler
Marin Mazzie
Michael Cerveris
Gregg Edelman
Timothy Shew
Joyce Chittick
Peter Benson
Susan Egan
F. Murray Abraham
Betty Buckley
Bebe Neuwirth
Chita Rivera
Darrin Baker
Matthew Broderick
Portia
Robert Clohessy
Tom Alredge
Michael Mastro
John Pankow
Mario Cantone
Julie Andrews
Julie White
Viola Davis
Ben Chaplin
John Lithgow
Some of the Altar Boyz
Jose Llana
Nancy Anderson
Jennifer Westfeldt
Raymond Jaramillo McLeod

Updated On: 6/13/05 at 03:57 PM

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Posted: 6/13/05 at 4:01pm

I've only really ever met Andrea McArdle...I was a huge Annie fan when I was ~ 14 and I cried when I met her. Um...and the man who musicaly directed all of my middle and high school shows played piano or musically directed (I'm not sure which) the Grease revival on Broadway. He was wonderful.

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Posted: 6/13/05 at 4:24pm

wow! for broadway uh...many of them i have met more than once

Norbie Leo Butz
John Lithgow
Greg Jbara
Sherie Scott
Hugh Jackman
Matt Morrison
Marissa Jarot Winouker
David Ayers
Jon Sharp
Jason Wooten
Robert Even
Terrance Mann
James Stovall
Daphne Rubin-Vega
Dick Cavett
Lea Dilaria
Dick Latessa
Luke Perry
Ana Gastayer
Harvey Fierstein
Mary Bond Davis
Stephen Schwartz
Eden Espinosa
Stephenie J. Block

im sure ive forgotten many of them!

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Posted: 6/13/05 at 4:45pm

buffyactsing - I had the pleasure of working with Andrea McArdle and she is a truly wonderful person - really kind and sweet and very talented.

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Posted: 6/13/05 at 5:06pm

i've met the entire cast of Q, Kristin Chenoweth, Adam Pascal, Susan Egan, Norbert Leo Butz, Stephen Schwartz, and a bunch of others.

Also, Andrea McArdle...she is so sweet! She did the makeup and lent us costumes for my school's performance of Cabaret since her daughter goes to my school.

Whatever happened to class?

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re: How much Broadway personnel did you meet?

Posted: 6/13/05 at 5:22pm

ive met the following... (many of which were more than once)

Adam Pascal
Daphne Rubin-Vega
Anthony Rapp
Idina Menzel
Wilson Jermaine Heredia
Kristin Chenoweth
Shoshana Bean
John Jeffrey Martin
Jennifer Laura Thompson
Joey Mcyntire
Matthew Morrison
James Stovall
Kristen Lee Kelly
Kevin Cahoon
Sebastian LaCause
Megan Hilty

hmm I think thats it.. but Im going to DRS next weekend (for my 21st bday!) so hopefully i can add a couple more on the list. :)

*Always be a first rate version of yourself, instead of a second rate version of someone else* -Judy Garland

Updated On: 6/13/05 at 05:22 PM

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re: How much Broadway personnel did you meet?

Posted: 6/13/05 at 5:41pm

Please, I'm also interested in where you met them.

"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!" - Jimmy Durante "Breathe from your hoo-hoo." -Kristin Chenoweth

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re: How much Broadway personnel did you meet?

Posted: 6/13/05 at 5:41pm

Met:
Idina Menzel (right after her Tony win!)
Cheno
Laura Bell Bundy
*The leads of the OBC of Hairspray
*The leads of the OBC of Little Women excluding Maureen + Sutton
Jennifer Laura Thompson

Seen first hand:
Carole Shelley
John Lithgow
Michelle Federer
Norbert Leo Butz
Sherie Rene Scott
Sutton Foster
Emmy Rossum (not Bway but yeah)
Marc Shaiman
Scott Wittman
Celia Keenan Bolger
Dan Fogler
Derrick Baskin
Wayne Cilento
Taye Diggs
Winnie Holzman
Eden Espinosa
Stephen Schwartz

I know there are more Im just trying to think...

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