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Posted: 2/19/07 at 10:37pm
I was just interested in any rude experiences people had had at the stage door, not so much with actors (I know that thread's been done) but with stage door managers, bodyguards, etc.
I went to The Apple Tree this past Saturday evening and my friend and I went to the stage door with our playbills and our Wicked Grimmeries. We were the first couple of people out there so we were directly up against the barricades. When the stage door manager walked by us he saw the book and asked if they were personal pictures for Kristin to sign. We said they weren't personal pictures, just the Grimmerie and he told us Kristin was only allowed to sign playbills and posters from the show, which we said we understood. After about 10 minutes he walked by us again and saw that our Grimmerie were still in our hands. He then told us that she wouldn't sign them and if we didn't put them away he would pull us out of line. We told him we understood that she wouldn't sign them and he just kind of looked at us and walked away. Several minutes after that Kristin's bodyguard/driver/whatever walked out to start her car and the stage door manager motioned him over, pointed to us and whispered something to him. On his way back from starting the car the bodyguard came over to us and told us to put the Grimmerie's away because Kristin would only sign items from the show. We told him that the manager had already told us this several times and that we understood. By this time we were getting pretty perturbed because we weren't arguing or trying to make trouble, we were just standing there and agreeing to do what they said yet they kept hounding us about it. When Kristin finally did come out and made it over to our side I asked if she could sign with a silver pen I had brought since the playbill was black and I thought it would look nicer than the black pen she was signing with. Her bodyguard looked at me and said she had her own pen she would sign with, so I said that was fine. He then looked at me and my friend and said pretty rudely that he knew we didn't approve but that's the way things were done. We hadn't even said anything about the pen comment, we were fine with that and my friend told him so and he looked at her and said "I know what you're thinking." So needless to say, out stage door experience was kind of ruined by those guys and their attitudes. I understand that they deal with crowds of people every night, but that doesn't warrant being rude to people who are complying with what they're being told and who aren't even arguing with them or causing trouble.
As a side note, Kristin and Brian d'Arcy James couldn't have been nicer. She did acknowledge that I had my Grimmerie with me, which was nice and she seemed genuinely happy to be interacting with her fans. He was kind enough to go inside and get me another playbill because mine got smudged after he signed it and because I let him use my pen to sign other people's playbills since he didn't have a pen with him.
I went to The Apple Tree this past Saturday evening and my friend and I went to the stage door with our playbills and our Wicked Grimmeries. We were the first couple of people out there so we were directly up against the barricades. When the stage door manager walked by us he saw the book and asked if they were personal pictures for Kristin to sign. We said they weren't personal pictures, just the Grimmerie and he told us Kristin was only allowed to sign playbills and posters from the show, which we said we understood. After about 10 minutes he walked by us again and saw that our Grimmerie were still in our hands. He then told us that she wouldn't sign them and if we didn't put them away he would pull us out of line. We told him we understood that she wouldn't sign them and he just kind of looked at us and walked away. Several minutes after that Kristin's bodyguard/driver/whatever walked out to start her car and the stage door manager motioned him over, pointed to us and whispered something to him. On his way back from starting the car the bodyguard came over to us and told us to put the Grimmerie's away because Kristin would only sign items from the show. We told him that the manager had already told us this several times and that we understood. By this time we were getting pretty perturbed because we weren't arguing or trying to make trouble, we were just standing there and agreeing to do what they said yet they kept hounding us about it. When Kristin finally did come out and made it over to our side I asked if she could sign with a silver pen I had brought since the playbill was black and I thought it would look nicer than the black pen she was signing with. Her bodyguard looked at me and said she had her own pen she would sign with, so I said that was fine. He then looked at me and my friend and said pretty rudely that he knew we didn't approve but that's the way things were done. We hadn't even said anything about the pen comment, we were fine with that and my friend told him so and he looked at her and said "I know what you're thinking." So needless to say, out stage door experience was kind of ruined by those guys and their attitudes. I understand that they deal with crowds of people every night, but that doesn't warrant being rude to people who are complying with what they're being told and who aren't even arguing with them or causing trouble.
As a side note, Kristin and Brian d'Arcy James couldn't have been nicer. She did acknowledge that I had my Grimmerie with me, which was nice and she seemed genuinely happy to be interacting with her fans. He was kind enough to go inside and get me another playbill because mine got smudged after he signed it and because I let him use my pen to sign other people's playbills since he didn't have a pen with him.
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