Les Miserables Pre-show SDing... — Page 2

Yeah i suppose you're right...i've just heard all these stories about how she goes out of her way to stop and talk...and when she kept walking after I acknowledged her...I was just surprised. But you're right..she was going in not coming out. Although, I don't really buy that many performers are all that focused or nervous coming in off the street to do a show they do 8 times a week. Idk, that's just me.

Ha, I'm sorry you found my comments as an "attack."

KQuill: Thanks for the stories. Unfortunately you are right, Daphne did not hear good comments very often. A friend of mine complimented her performance after a show and her response was a sad, "Thank you for saying that."

If it makes you feel any better, she was pretty under the weather from January right through her last performance. So while it may have just been that she was trying to get in to work, its also possible that she wasn't feeling well and just didn't have the energy you have heard she usually has. I've seen her go totally out of her way to spend time with fans, and I've seen her just go down the line on auto-pilot signing things. Usually she is extremely friendly (and warm and fuzzy, as you put it, lol) but we all have our days.

Now Jenny . . . lol, I'm surprised you even got her to sign anything! I saw the show five times before Daphne left and never once saw Jenny stop to sign anything for anyone (not saying she never has, just that I never saw it).

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See, I was sure someone must have. Truth is I saw her duck and run a few times and just never bothered to stop her. Figured if she wanted out that badly I wasn't going to be the one to stop her.

When you saw her did she start signing on her own, or did someone "grab" her? Was she pleasant?

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Oh, and as for my previous story about Sutton, I then asked her if she'd be coming out the stage door after the show (Because I didn't currently have a camera...), and she kind of shifted awkwardly and said "No, i've got to get over to Spamalot... its my husband's last day!"

Its not that I don't believe her, its just that i'm sure she would have had time... I was there on BC/EFA fundraising day though, so I don't know how many actors actually came out of the stage door... many of them were sprinkled through the lobby holding the buckets for money. (I paid $20 for a polaroid with Beth!)

PS~ I actually saw Sutton at the Spamalot stage door back in August, but I was afraid to stop her... she looked like she was doing her best to avoid people like me. She swooped in out of the darkness of Shubert Alley and into the stage door, swifty as ever!

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good to know, thnx lol

"I find it quite rude when an actor or actress refuses to sign autographs. To me, it's part of their job, to support the people who so support them."


Actually, it's not part of their job. Yeah, you can argue that they wouldn't be anyone without their fans, and they should sign yada yada yada, but it's all a matter of personal preference. Their job is to give you a performance. Some people are shy and reserved. It doesn't mean that they're rude. And above all, remember that they are HUMAN. They have good and bad days just like anyone else and may choose not to sign on a particular day b/c they are just ready to go home from work. Think about it...you're leaving work, tired, probably hungry and maybe ready to just go to bed. But all of a sudden, you walk out of your office and there are hordes of people wanting something from you. You're off the clock. Are you obligated to stay there?

NJRae - I asked her if she'd mind signing an autograph.

Yankeefan: Lol, now why didn't I think of that?

Diva: You took the words right out of my mouth.

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Diva~ It's not for the ocassional person having a bad day, I have stage doored for "Coast of Utopia" many a time, and a few of those, Billy Crudup rushes quickly out, head down, and turns the corner. However, on most of the occasions, he is a sweetie, signing and chatting with everybody. The people that bother me are repeat "offenders" so to speak, such as Sutton, who continue to deny and neglect their fans, and it's pretty obvious she is not a shy person. I can understand the quick-run somenights, especially for example on weekends or Fridays, but otherwise, and I know they are human, but really, most every working human works a few minutes of overtime every day. Can't they just afford a few with the people who just spent $100 to see them?

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Jenny Ducked and ran when I was at Les Miz too... But I Politley said, "excuse me, Miss Galloway, could you sign this for me please?" (giving her my playbill and a marker) and she obliged...

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I don't know what people are talking about. I got Celia, Ali, Megan, Lea, Jenny, Adam, Drew Sarich, Gary, Kyle Liya Goldstein, Brian D'Addario, Blake Ginther, Haivland Stillwell, and Nikki Renee Daniels to sign a window card, and none of them gave any trouble.