Stagedoor Experiences

Laura Bell was a sweetie when I met her after LB. It was even raining and she took the time to take pictures with everyone in line. (can't say the same for Natalie Joy Johnson tho who just ran straight for the limo waiting for her).

Please, please, someone find or resurrect the "MISTER PIZZA MAN!!!!" story. I can't find it.

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Search. The search feature is your friend. Im not going to search for you because it's something you should have done yourself but there's LONG ass thread about this already.

Yeah, Im taking up the resident bitch role today.

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Thanks lizzie! Sorry I'm new to this whole forum thing I didn't even know where to begin. and thanks CJR, for your friendly, non-pretentious reminder about the search feature!

I really enjoyed talking to Noah Weisberg from Legally Blonde at the stage door. That guy talked forever! He really seemed to appreciate the audience. He asked me and my friends where we were from, what we do, why we were in the city, etc. Such a nice guy!

When I did the Legally Blonde stage door I thought Natalie Joy Johnson was very nice and posed for pictures, signed playbills, and talked to the fans. Laura Bell Bundy on the other hand...while she posed for photos and signed playbills, she didn't really talk and wasn't very personable.

The ENTIRE cast of Spring Awakening is so pleasant to talk to. Every one of them stop to actually talk to you. I joked around with Jonathan Groff and had a nice conversation with him and John Gallagher Jr.

I loved John Tartaglia when I met him after Avenue Q. It was snowing outside and once he found out I was from Texas and wasn't used to the freezing cold snow he rubbed me warm...literally...and posed for a photo with me. He was so sweet.

Just a list of people I've enjoyed at the stage door:
Joey McIntire
Kristin Chenoweth
Stephanie D'abruzio (sp?)
Lea Salonga
Norm Lewis
Sierra Boggess
Mary Testa
Andrea Martin
David Hyde Pierce
Bernadette Peters
Hank Azaria
Sutton Foster
Jennifer Hope Wills
Jennifer Laura Thompson
Adam Pascal
Stephanie J. Block
Matt Doyle

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I am not the biggest Spring Awakening fan but I think Jonathan Gallagher is one of the nicest performers I've ever met. He's so generous with his time and very fun to talk to.

I also think memorable stage door experiences would include Sutton Foster outside YF. She was lovely.

My avatar (Christine Ebersole) is a delight, it goes without saying.

I also found Michael Cerveris and Donna Murphy to be lovely.
dancing-thanks for reminding me-Drowsy's cast is always very nice. They seemed to love what they were doing and were very personable.

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Updated On: 12/6/07 at 12:43 PM

I met both Idina Menzel & Helen Dallimore last October in london and they were nice to me.

Ahhh the "stage door" experience.

I don't understand why people think they are "entitled" to an autograph or to be so-and-so's BFF cuz they're their #1 fan.

Perhaps one night Bernadette is free after the show and people will have good experiences in getting a picture or autograph...however perhaps the next night she has to run to her limo because she has a meeting with her agent? A friend who's in town? A producer offering her her next job? She's sick and needs sleep?

If you're so desperate for the autograph...there is an excellent tip in Seth Rudetsky's book "The Q Guide to Broadway" regarding stage dooring.

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Nikki Snelson is always a pleasure at stage door. She is honestly one of the friendliest people and one of the sweetest...a lot of the LB cast is. Also, I found Norm Lewis to be extremely personable and I agree with everything said about him above. Man, that guy is talllllll.

When it was around, the whole [tos] cast was also so sweet and great to talk to.

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I fully get that it's up to the actor if they want to sign things, and I totally respect that. I make it a point to have something to say specifically about the show besides the standard "Great show" or whatever. Keep it brief. And always please and thank you. :) Courtesy and respect goes a long way. Pretty much everyone has been nice or at least polite (one notable exception who will remain nameless but who seemed royally pissed I wasn't trying to fall all over him). But a few stand out in the exceptionally awesome category.

* Everyone in The Vertical Hour was fantastic to me. :) From Julianne Moore to Rutina Wesley. EVERYONE in that cast rocked.

* Vanessa Redgrave didn't always come out, but she was more than gracious the night The Year of Magical Thinking closed, taking time to talk with everyone who had waited. (We had the bonus of Joan Didion coming out as well...though considerably earlier than Vanessa.)

* Beth Leavel is always awesome and wonderful.

* The whole cast of 110 in the Shade ~ especially Steve Kazee and Audra McDonald.

* And at A Moon for the Misbegotten Eve Best was always extremely gracious, even when she was in a hurry to get somewhere.

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Updated On: 12/6/07 at 03:28 PM

I haven't stage-doored alot of shows because most of the time I went with school trips and they wouldn't let you stay (boo on them, first off. lol)

My favorite stage door experience was defintely Spring Awakening though. The cast was amazing and so nice and talkative. John Gallagher Jr is one of the sweetest guys I've ever met. I saw SA the Wednesday before the Tony's, so everyone was buzzing with excitement, wishing people good luck and asking about their performance. It was great. :)

I also loved the Avenue Q stage door, back in fall of '05. Barrett Foa was very nice and was really funny too. There wasn't alot of people at the door, basically just me and my group of friends and like 2-3 other groups. The entire cast came out and signed and posed for pictures with everyone, chatting and laughing with us the entire time.

Joey McIntyre was also really sweet at the Wicked stage door, posing for SO many pictures and signing like a million autographs. The stage door was swamped that night, as I saw Wicked during Idina and Joey's last week there. Idina never came out, but oh well.

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That's a good question amoni.... does anyone know?

Updated On: 12/6/07 at 06:13 PM