Was there someone famous in the audience at Come from Away on Saturday night?
Was there someone famous in the audience at Come from Away on Saturday night?
Was there someone famous in the audience at Come from Away on Saturday night?#1
Posted: 7/2/17 at 6:23pm
I was at Come from Away on Saturday night. (The show was great!) A few minutes before the show started, there was some cheering in the back of the orchestra and a bunch of audience members were standing up, apparently looking at someone else in the audience. I asked at the stage door, and the cast members hadn't heard about anyone famous being there that night.
I realize that this is a long shot, but does anyone know who the cheering was for?
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Was there someone famous in the audience at Come from Away on Saturday night?#2
Posted: 7/2/17 at 6:26pm
I saw on Twitter that it was Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
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Was there someone famous in the audience at Come from Away on Saturday night?#3
Posted: 7/2/17 at 7:22pm
NO it was Sammy Davis Jr. and Frank Sinatra.
Was there someone famous in the audience at Come from Away on Saturday night?#4
Posted: 7/2/17 at 7:34pm
Emmy Rossum
Was there someone famous in the audience at Come from Away on Saturday night?#5
Posted: 7/2/17 at 7:41pm
stlrod said: "Emmy Rossum
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As Mimi in Rent
Was there someone famous in the audience at Come from Away on Saturday night?#6
Posted: 7/3/17 at 1:09am
CorkySt.Clair said: "stlrod said: "Emmy Rossum "
As Mimi in Rent"
as Celie in The Color Purple
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Was there someone famous in the audience at Come from Away on Saturday night?#7
Posted: 7/3/17 at 1:41am
as Effie inDreamgirls
Was there someone famous in the audience at Come from Away on Saturday night?#8
Posted: 7/3/17 at 6:14am
It was Joe and Mika . . . America's new fun couple.
Was there someone famous in the audience at Come from Away on Saturday night?#9
Posted: 7/3/17 at 9:17am
Apparently from what I've read, the Clintons saw Oslo on Saturday. I do not know if they were at the matinee or evening performance, but I do know that they often did two show days, so perhaps they had seen Oslo in the afternoon and CFA that evening.
Was there someone famous in the audience at Come from Away on Saturday night?#10
Posted: 7/3/17 at 9:27am
That would be interesting....didn't Hillary see it about a month ago?
Was there someone famous in the audience at Come from Away on Saturday night?#11
Posted: 7/3/17 at 11:04am
As far as we could tell the ushers were just getting the audience pumped up. We went to the stage door after and the cast all came out and left pretty quickly (they were going to a Canada Day celebration) which, from my general experience, they usually hang out backstage longer if someone famous was in the audience and is meeting them afterward. The entire cast told us that they'd rated that nights audience top 5 ever, though. The first person who said it I assumed was just having fun but everyone said the same thing independently.
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Was there someone famous in the audience at Come from Away on Saturday night?#12
Posted: 7/3/17 at 11:19am
Yup. I was right, it was Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
This was taken when they arrived hence those cheers. I found it on an audience member's Instagram. 
Was there someone famous in the audience at Come from Away on Saturday night?#13
Posted: 7/3/17 at 11:30am
Wow, they look great for their ages 
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Was there someone famous in the audience at Come from Away on Saturday night?#14
Posted: 7/3/17 at 11:43am
Maybe it was someone "Canadian famous" - like Brent Butt or Mary Walsh or Gordon Pinsent - that only Canadians would recognize.
Was there someone famous in the audience at Come from Away on Saturday night?#15
Posted: 7/4/17 at 3:35am
countrygurl5872 said: "As far as we could tell the ushers were just getting the audience pumped up.
Don't tell me Broadway has gone the way of those dreadful TV audience chat shows and need a warm-up guy to get those women hysterical[patrons].
So ushers have to check tickets/show people to seats/stop picture taking and now start a 3 ring circus before a show begins????
Lordy--thank God for a good book.
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Was there someone famous in the audience at Come from Away on Saturday night?#16
Posted: 7/4/17 at 4:24am
I was at Oslo and Hillary and Bill looked great!
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