#76
Posted: 10/16/05 at 9:24pm
Oy...I went to the evening show on 10/15 and let me tell you the lobby scene was not so pretty. There was a decent sized crowd there and like it even looked like it was going to be somewhat organized. There was a pathway and everything. And then I saw all these people with Rent and Wicked stuff which like...I personally would never bring stuff from other shows but whatever. But then there were like all these homemade poster and such. SO then she comes out and freaking high pitched screaming, shrieking stuff goes on and I just cringe. The the mob happens....crowding around her. She signed...and took pictures if you asked and had the camera ready. And like you had to ask to even take pictures OF all the actors not even with them. But yes she did take pictures with people and sign. Things werent THAT bad at first but then it was just out of hand. People were yelling to her and waving stuff around her face and she looked so frazzled and sketched out. She had that look...like she had those wide eyed deer in headlight eyes that she gets when shes freaked out or scared...like she had at some of the Wicked stage doors that she DIDNT have at Ptown when people werent freaking out and such.
Worst part is, as she tried to leave, the mass of people pushed after her down the stairs and out the door where she was kind enough to stop and sign and take some more pictures. Then, surrounded by Public Theater staff, she began to go down the street where the people FOLLOWED her to the point where they were brisky walking down the street, one of the people from the theater had to flag down a cab and they got her in it QUICK. It was crazy...she seemed so like scattered and freaked out by the time she made it halfway through the lobby it was not cool.
Idina was more than gracious with everyone, signing stuff and taking pictures and people were STILL mobbing her like crazy and thorwing stuff in her face and such....it was ugly
Worst part is, as she tried to leave, the mass of people pushed after her down the stairs and out the door where she was kind enough to stop and sign and take some more pictures. Then, surrounded by Public Theater staff, she began to go down the street where the people FOLLOWED her to the point where they were brisky walking down the street, one of the people from the theater had to flag down a cab and they got her in it QUICK. It was crazy...she seemed so like scattered and freaked out by the time she made it halfway through the lobby it was not cool.
Idina was more than gracious with everyone, signing stuff and taking pictures and people were STILL mobbing her like crazy and thorwing stuff in her face and such....it was ugly
