How to Succeed Stage Door

Well I saw the show on it's second or third preview, so Daniel may have been getting notes, or something else, but he took a good 30-40 minutes for him to come out. That said, he was nothing but kind and gracious when it came out, and signed as many things as he could.

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Saw How to Succeed and waited for Daniel Radcliffe last Friday June 3, and it took him about 45minutes to come out of the stage door. He was indeed very kind.

TIP: A lot of people get shy/starstruck so it gets pretty quiet while everyone extends their playbills to get signed. but if you talk to him, he talks back. I totally regret not telling him he was great that night.

And if you want a good chance of being at the front of the barrier, LEAVE BEFORE they start doing their bows.!

I was there last Saturday. Each side of the barricade had about 65+ people, and there was another 75+ people across the street. There was maybe 5 people in front of me to the barricade (I was about 5 people deep, whichever sentence seems to make more sense to you!). Most of the actors from the show skip it. Rose (20 min?) signed the first row and left. Christopher and John (25 min?) signed a lot (if you held your playbill out, they would reach for it and sign it). Daniel (35-40 mins?) signs those along the line and a few if passed up (A very nice gentleman took my playbill from my outstretched hand, passed it forward, and placed it right under him, so it did get signed!).

All that being said, it was hectic and crazy. For most people, this is probably their first and only stage door experience. The barricade opposite me, for example, rushed the rail when Daniel came out and you could hear some girls screaming "You're suffocating me!" Luckily, my side exchanged glances and someone stated "Let's be the sensible side that doesn't do that!" There is lots of screaming, cameras flashing, and marriage proposals shouted. Seriously. I'm glad I went, and that it worked out that I got the three main guys to sign it, but I wouldn't do that stage door again! :)

Hope that helps!

The day I went, not only did this group of girls leave the show before they even got to BROTHERHOOD OF MAN, but they told the cast that they did! Ugh that disgusted me.

Thanks everyone, sounds like I should just skip it. I would never leave before their curtain call (they just performed for me, I can stand there and clap for them) and I doubt I would have the patience or the time to wait behind all the people who got there first. The same thing happened when I saw A Little Night Music with Bernadette, the entire front line of people hadn't seen the show. Fortunately, it was my birthday that night and that and the fact that I came all the way from Oregon caused people to take pity on me and let me move to the front :)

Not to thread-jack, but I just saw tonight's performance of "Brotherhood of Man" on Letterman, and they did fantastic. On "The View" a few weeks ago, the energy sucked and Daniel and the rest of the guys seemed winded...or tired...or...maybe it was too early in the morning for them, who knows. But at that viewing I thought, "THIS is what everyone's speaking so highly of?"

Either the cast was having a bad day on "The View," or someone saw that video and sharpened things up a bit. Tonight was much improved over a few weeks ago. I hope the entire show is like that. Going to NYC in a month or two and hope to see it along with a few others we're going to check out!

(And now back to your regularly-scheduled stage door thread... :)

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Went to the stage door twice when I was in the city two weeks ago. Saw the show Saturday night and by the time I was at the barricade I was about five rows back.

If you are seeing an evening show on a day that also has a matinee performance, there are going to be people that come back before the show is over to stand on the "Day of Show" side. Be prepared.

What we did to get the Radcliffe autograph... sort of worked out perfectly. We saw Book of Mormon as our Sunday matinee. Starting at two, ended with enough time to get to the stage door there (everyone came out and were awesome) and to make our way to How to Succeed with about 40 minutes in their show left. Went to the other barricade and were able to get a Cast Album cover side as well as a Playbill.

Sooo, ways to do it. I'd just plan to get there early after a different performance, so you can fully enjoy the show and not be disappointed when you see the barricades completely full as you walk out of the theater.

GOOD LUCK!

I know the Hirschfeld and Broadhurst are owned by different people, so the security personnel are different, but it sounds like they should do what they did at Equus. There, before Radcliffe came out, the security guy said nicely but firmly over and over again that if people started pushing, the signing was going to stop. People heard it. There was a little pushing, but nothing like the chaos it sounds like is happening at How to Succeed.

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Found out today that Daniel doesn't come out after matinee's and the guard was pretty much inviting people to come back at 11pm. Only a few people came out in fact

We got Tammy which was our goal for the day.

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Several girls were running out before curtain calls and I was tempted to trip them as they ran by.

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