Was there someone famous in the audience at Come from Away on Saturday night?

[mikem]

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?

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 7/2/17 at 6:26pm

I saw on Twitter that it was Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.  

[sabrelady]

Posted: 7/2/17 at 7:22pm

NO it was Sammy Davis Jr. and Frank Sinatra.

[stlrod]

Posted: 7/2/17 at 7:34pm

Emmy Rossum 

[CorkySt.Clair]

Posted: 7/2/17 at 7:41pm

stlrod said: "Emmy Rossum 

 

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As Mimi in Rent

[gypsy101]

Posted: 7/3/17 at 1:09am

CorkySt.Clair said: "stlrod said: "Emmy Rossum "

As Mimi in Rent"

as Celie in The Color Purple

Updated On: 7/3/17 at 01:09 AM

[sabrelady]

Posted: 7/3/17 at 1:41am

as Effie inDreamgirls

[nsguy45]

Posted: 7/3/17 at 6:14am

It was Joe and Mika . . . America's new fun couple. 

[RaisedOnMusicals]

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. 

[CorkySt.Clair]

Posted: 7/3/17 at 9:27am

That would be interesting....didn't Hillary see it about a month ago?

[countrygurl5872]

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.

[BrodyFosse123]

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.  

[CorkySt.Clair]

Posted: 7/3/17 at 11:30am

Wow, they look great for their ages .

[SharksVsJets]

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.

[SweetLips]

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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[SmoothLover]

Posted: 7/4/17 at 4:24am

I was at Oslo and Hillary and Bill looked great!