I'm really really late on this, but I just became infatuated with these boards, and am now going to post (don don don).
I was there... well obviously. Third row, center, and yeah, I did fangirl at the beginning of the show. I was talking so fast that you couldn't understand it if you slowed it down a million and two times, but the second the show started, I calmed down. You don't want to hear a long rant about how wonderful everyone is (because you know), so I'm going to cut to the party.
I was very VERY dissapoitned with my two friends, who are, there's no other way to put this, crazy, annoying Adam fangirls, and they were in the group jumping down everyone's throats at the door. I tried to walk around, see if I could see any newer cast members, Victoria Lencock, Al Larson, etc., and did get to, eventually, but they kept dragging me to the door. It was quite annoying. Then they started b*ching and asking everyone (and I mean EVERYONE) if Adam was going to be there. I ran away. Seriously, RAN, for my life.
There were mobs around all the cast members, and I really get why a bunch of them didn't show. They took my two autograph card-y things and got them signed and dragged me over when we took a picture with Daphne (who I said sorry to, she was SO sweet about it). I was walking around the area where Anthony's mob was, when this girl was screaming crying when she got up to him "OHMYGOD IT'S ANTHONY *cry*". The one hilarious story I heard is from Adam fangirl #2, when Wilson left his original mob, he said "I'm going to the bar, 'cause this boy needs a drink!"
Oh, Wilson, I feel yah.
I did get to tell Gwen Stewart that she was brilliant ('cause she is) when her smaller mob went away from her. And I did get to tell an extremely drunk Matt Caplan that I was sad he was leaving soon, but I didn't go crazy.
I'm really ashamed of some Rentheads. It's not about Adam, or Jesse, or Anthony, or Idina. It's about love damn it. So who gives a damn if Adam didn't sign your little card that you spent two hours making on the computer? You just experienced one of the most amazing events in Rent history... can't you appreciate that?
Anyway, I've been trying to block out all the negitive feelings I've been having about this, and just appreciate it, like I said, so I'm not a crazy hypocrite.
Chopstitute