Running into Broadway stars on the streets of NYC- Page 4

[AC126748]

Posted: 7/14/10 at 4:01pm

I live in Hell's Kitchen. Basically, I can't swing a dead cat without hitting a chorus boy/second male lead/downtown cabaret regular.

[shrekster224]

Posted: 7/14/10 at 4:59pm

On the street, not many. I've seen Janet Dacal walking with Andrea Burns, and Ryan Duncan and some other Shrek cast members when that was still on broadway. I've also seen Matt Doyle and Krysta Rodriguez.

When I went to La Cage, i was surrounded by Lucy Liu, Bernadette Peters, Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith, and Teresa Giudice from the Real Housewives haha.

[AC126748]

Posted: 7/14/10 at 5:07pm

She was probably dragged there by her husband, Joe, who's not gay BTW...

[thenewmoon]

Posted: 7/14/10 at 7:11pm

Jerry Mitchell in Starbucks.
Jackie Mason twice, in two different restaurants having a post-show nosh.
In a star-gazing coup, both Bruce Vilanch and Jeff Goldblum in the audience of one of the last previews of "Sweet Charity." I had just seen Vilanch in "Hairspray" in LA, so I got up the nerve to tell him how funny he'd been, "even from the back row of the balcony," -- which got a big laugh. I made a comedy writer laugh! So cool!

[BroadwayGuy12]

Posted: 7/14/10 at 9:38pm

I saw Stark Sands on his cell phone outside of the Helen Hayes today. That's the most recent one. I have plenty more, too many to list here.

[Overkill]

Posted: 11/19/10 at 10:28am

While living there in 2006, I saw a few:

Jerry Mitchell walking through the 42nd Street subway.

Matt Caplan in the same subway with a guitar strapped to his back.

Josh Strickland was walking down the street, starring in Tarzan, heading to the theatre. We (my mom and I) had a friend in the show, so we knew him, but of course he didn't know us. He was on the phone walking by when we made eye contact with him. And we didn't realize it until he awkwardly said "...Hi guys...?" that we were just STARING at him. I felt horrible. lol

Saw Matthew Broderick walking down 47th.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 11/19/10 at 10:33am

I passed Sean Hayes a couple of weeks ago on 42nd street. He looked good, much better out of that awful PROMISES, PROMISES makeup that tries to make him look like a plasticine 25-year-old.

[sally1112]

Posted: 11/19/10 at 10:53am

While enjoying a few cocktails with my traveling companion on our summer trip to NYC we were seated at a fabuolous little gay tavern discussing Spring Awakening, which we had just seen and getting a heads up on LuPone's Gyspy, which we were seeing that night, when who walks by the window but Mary Louise Wilson, who we had just seen last night in Grey Gardens.
I ran out for a closer look, but didn't want to be too stalker/tourist, so I just let her walk past me, with her lunch in her hands, I am assuming on her way back to the theater.
The experience made me want to move to NYC that day!

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 11/19/10 at 11:15am

This one wasn't exactly a "run-in," but a few years ago, after seeing URINETOWN at ATA just a few weeks before it exploded on Broadway, we chatted up some of the cast afterwards. If you've ever been to ATA, you'll know that its size makes bumping into the actors inevitable if you stick around for longer than 5 minutes after a show. Anyway, we talked with Hunter Foster and Ken Jennings for a bit (Mr. Jennings was a particular thrill for me, and I say this as someone who doesn't get starstruck).

But as we were leaving out the front door who did we walk right into but John Cullum, who, it turns out, was heading in our direction. So, we walked some blocks with him to his subway stop before parting ways. What a gracious, congenial, and easygoing guy he was, and so excited about doing the production and so genuinely interested in getting people's feedback. Good stuff.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 11/19/10 at 11:41am

I ran into Patti LuPone with my segway. It was right after they turned the theater district into a pedestrian mall. I went zooming down Broadway and she was just aimlessly walking around like tourists do. When she got up off the pavement, she ran after me screaming.

[JasonM12480]

Posted: 11/19/10 at 12:05pm

I've passed by Kristin Chenoweth on the street, seen Victor Garber, almost ran into Bebe Neuwirth (literally) coming out of Actor's Equity, saw Ana Gastayer and Molly Shannon having dinner at Westway Diner, and Christopher Fitzgerald, and a host of others. Rule of thumb? Make a mental note, think "How cool is that?!", and don't approach them if you don't know them. They're just regular people like anyone else :)

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 11/19/10 at 12:09pm

"They're just regular people like anyone else."

Lunacy!

[newintown]

Posted: 11/19/10 at 12:13pm

Too true - I'll never forget the words of advice I received on my first visit to NYC decades ago - "A real New Yorker doesn't visibly notice celebrities."

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 11/19/10 at 12:18pm

^Totally true. Or in my case, doesn't notice at all.

[rmusic11322]

Posted: 11/19/10 at 12:48pm

As I was dropping off a letter at the Promises, Promises stage door, Kristin Chenoweth was walking in with her dog. So cute! :)

[musicman_bwayfan]

Posted: 11/19/10 at 1:23pm

I saw Sutton Foster + Katie Finneran yesterday.

[mc1227]

Posted: 11/29/10 at 7:54pm

I have seen several stars, mostly around theaters. Jeremy Irons having dinner at the next table at Angus McIndoes. I've seen Jackie Mason and Jerry STiller (not together) walking down 43rd St. I've also seen Judith Light buying tea at the Acorn theater during intermission. Matthew Broderick unlocking (or locking) his bike in front of the Triad Theater. I've also seen SJP sitting behind Scott Wittmann and in the same row as Ron Rifkin at The Starry Messenger. Jerry Seinfeld and his wife coming out of the American Airlines theater a year or two ago.

[kchenofan]

Posted: 11/29/10 at 8:07pm

"I saw Sutton Foster + Katie Finneran yesterday."

Were they together?

/off-topic Katie must be really pregnant now, isn't she? Third trimester?

[ahhrealmonsters]

Posted: 11/29/10 at 9:32pm

Does it really count if you see them walking by/in/out of the theatre where they work, or even in the Times Square area? I've seen people in SoHo, the West Village, UWS..

[wexy]

Posted: 11/29/10 at 9:40pm

Friend just texted me 15 minutes agothat she ran into Kelsey Grammer, the fiance and couple of dogs near Lincoln Center

[Eris0303]

Posted: 11/29/10 at 9:55pm

Make a mental note, think "How cool is that?!", and don't approach them if you don't know them. They're just regular people like anyone else :)

Unless they look like someone you know then it's okay. :)

Roger Bart kinda looks like this kid Chris I knew when I was in college. I saw Roger walking toward me and my friend outside the Hilton and I started to veer towards him saying to my friend "Hey, that's Chris". Then I realized it wasn't Chris but Roger Bart and I veered away. Unfortunately, Roger saw the veering and was looking at me. I was trying to tell my friend "hey, that's Roger Bart" without looking like I was. We passed each other and when I turned around to look he was turned around looking at me. It was one of the funniest/most awkward celeb encounters I've ever had.

Sadly enough something similar happened later the same day with Michael Rosenbaum.