What Celebrities Have You Seen at Shows?- Page 6
What Celebrities Have You Seen at Shows?
PlayItAgain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/11
#125What Celebrities Have You Seen at Shows?
Posted: 5/28/12 at 9:34am
Chris Rock at Death Of A Salesman
Stephen Sondheim, Brain Stokes Mitchell & Whoopi Goldberg at Newsies,
Jessica Walters at Sons Of The Prophet
Barbra Walter at the 8 benefit reading.
Henry Winkler at The Columnist
Sharon Gless at Masterclass
defyinggravity2
Stand-by Joined: 1/16/12
#126What Celebrities Have You Seen at Shows?
Posted: 5/28/12 at 9:47amI saw Kristin Chenoweth at SHREK once, and I shouted, "GLINDA!!!!!" (I'm a WICKED fanatic) and it was funny, even she laughed.
yankeefan7
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/14/12
#127What Celebrities Have You Seen at Shows?
Posted: 5/28/12 at 10:13amNever had any luck with seeing celebrities with one exception. Saw Martina Navritolova during intermission of "Phantom Of The Opera" many years ago.
ChildrenwillListen
Featured Actor Joined: 3/12/12
#128What Celebrities Have You Seen at Shows?
Posted: 5/28/12 at 10:15amKathie Lee Gifford and Hoda at Godspell. That was so cool.
NJBway
Understudy Joined: 1/6/12
#129What Celebrities Have You Seen at Shows?
Posted: 5/28/12 at 10:45amShirley Jones was at gypsy when i saw it a row behind me !!!
#130What Celebrities Have You Seen at Shows?
Posted: 5/28/12 at 10:49amJerry Mitchell when I saw Legally Blonde and Phyllicia Rashad (sp?) when I saw The Color Purple early in it's run, you would have thought Oprah herself were there.
sklabam
Stand-by Joined: 11/27/11
#131What Celebrities Have You Seen at Shows?
Posted: 5/28/12 at 12:10pmWas sitting next to Indira Gandhi once, and then realized that it was Deepak Chopra.
willep
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/08
#132What Celebrities Have You Seen at Shows?
Posted: 5/28/12 at 12:15pm
Had forgotten -
David Hyde Pierce, Fergie, and Josh Duhamel at The Merchant of Venice.
ZoeTheGoat
Understudy Joined: 5/9/12
#133What Celebrities Have You Seen at Shows?
Posted: 5/28/12 at 12:31pmI went to Newsies on April 18th and Katie Holmes and her daughter were there. Both left after Act 1.
Smoke bomb!
#134What Celebrities Have You Seen at Shows?
Posted: 5/28/12 at 12:36pm
Valerie Harper sat 3 rows behind me at a matinee of Porgy and Bess last weekend. Then, later that night I past her as I was leaving Once laster that day. She had seen Other Desert Cities that night.
What was interesting was she was just in a ball cap, t shirt, and yoga pants for Porgy, and she was dressed up to the nines at Other Desert Cities.
"Ok ok ok ok ok ok ok. Have you guys heard about fidget spinners!?" ~Patti LuPone
hermajesty
Leading Actor Joined: 9/28/11
#135What Celebrities Have You Seen at Shows?
Posted: 5/28/12 at 1:23pm
Tommy Steele
Cliff Richard
Tom Jones
Alan Rickman
John Barrowman
Michael Ball
All problems are man made and so, can be man solved.
#136What Celebrities Have You Seen at Shows?
Posted: 5/28/12 at 1:40pm
Sharon Gless and Tim Daly at Master Class.
Stockard Channing at House of Blue Leaves
Ben Vereen at Porgy and Bess
Connie Britton at The Road to Mecca
Kurtwood Smith at Death of a Salesman
Judith Light at End of the Rainbow
#137What Celebrities Have You Seen at Shows?
Posted: 5/28/12 at 1:42pmJon Hamm, Sandra Oh, Liev Schrieber, Naomi Watts, Lauren Ambrose, Alan Alda, Sandra Bullock, Sting, Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Rainbowhigh23
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/29/12
#138What Celebrities Have You Seen at Shows?
Posted: 5/28/12 at 1:43pm
Stephen Sondheim at Sweeney Todd - there was a girl in front of my looking to the back of the theater and crying, I asked her what she was crying about, and she said he was in the theater, and there he was.
Arthur Laurents at City Center for Gypsy.
#139What Celebrities Have You Seen at Shows?
Posted: 5/28/12 at 3:40pm
Dennis Franz at Curtains
Valerie Bertinelli and Jane Lynch at Hair
Actually talked with Jane Lynch, she was very nice, this was just as Glee was getting big
Rita Moreno and Nancy Grace at Follies
Candy Spelling at Billy Elliot, she asked me how I liked the show.
Don Rickles and Bob Saget at Bye Bye Birdie (Starring John Stamos). This was the last night of previews and they had a mishap with the set. The show was stopped for about 30 minutes. Bob Saget came on stage and he and John Stamos chatted and tried to entertain the audience. Don Rickles heckled them from the audience!
#140What Celebrities Have You Seen at Shows?
Posted: 5/29/12 at 10:54am
Yogi Berra at Lombardi
Audra Mcdonald at Ragtime Revival
Alan Alda at Grey Gardens
Samuel L. Jackson at Stick Fly
Dolly Parton at Bonnie & Clyde
Constantine Maroulis at Memphis
Savannah Wise at Leap of Faith
At Rock of Ages (different shows)
Taye Diggs
Lea Michelle
John Stamos
Selena Gomez
Alex Rodriquez and Cameron Diaz
#141What Celebrities Have You Seen at Shows?
Posted: 5/29/12 at 12:17pm
During the Clinton presidency, he used to do a theater weekend in NYC, and the shows he was going to see were public knowledge, but not the dates and times for security reasons. We had tickets to see Chicago the Saturday night of that weekend, which was summer 1999 and that morning we received a phone call requesting that we come to the theater early for "security reasons". (they had our phone number through the credit card purchase.) It wasn't hard to figure out the reason for the call.
We arrived, went through a magnetometer and the theater was electric. Everyone took their seats (there were obvious Secret Service around and I'm sure some that were not as obvious). After the house went to half lights, Bill and Hillary came in and took their seats in Row L center, a few seats off the aisle to thunderous applause. We were in Row G, left aisle, and at intermission people on their way to the lobby walked up the aisle and the President shook everyone's hand as they went by. Most people were saying something like, "thank you for supporting the theater, Mr. President" and keep walking.
I decided to see if I might be able to get him to respond to conversation, so as I shook his hand I said, "Mr. President, we have something in common." He said, "what's that?" and I replied that both of our daughters were leaving for college that fall for their first years. He said, "where is she going", and I replied "Smith College" and which time he grabbed Hillary, who had gone to Wellesley (a rival school) and said "His daughter is starting Smith this fall." Finally he said, "Well I hope you are looking forward to it more than I am", and that was it, but it was both touching that he was clearly anticipating missing Chelsea and that he was speaking to me father to father.
So that's an experience I doubt I'll ever forget.
CZJ at opening night party for A Little Night Music, Dec 13, 2009.
flinger072
Understudy Joined: 6/25/10
#142What Celebrities Have You Seen at Shows?
Posted: 5/29/12 at 5:35pm
Alan Rickman (The Diary of a Madman at BAM)
Laurence Fishburne (Speed the Plow )
Tim Robbins/Susan Sarandon (All My Sons)
Chris Noth (Equus)
Paula Abdul (Hair)
Alan Rickman (How to Succeed)
Neil Patrick Harris (How to Succeed)
Liev Schreiber/Naomi Watts (Hugh Jackman Back on Broadway and they drove the price up super high on his tshirt auction for bcefa)
Chris Rock/Bobby Cannavale (Stick Fly)
Russel Simmons/Bob Balaban (Peter & the Starcatcher)
Updated On: 5/29/12 at 05:35 PM
BroadwayMan5
Chorus Member Joined: 3/31/12
#143What Celebrities Have You Seen at Shows?
Posted: 5/29/12 at 6:41pm
This year
Rita Moreno, Linda Lavin at "The Best Man"
Bernadette Petters at "How to Succeed..." (Jonas)
Vincent Katheiser (Mad Men) at "Lonely I'm Not"
Tony Kushner at "Gatz"
last year
Shirley McLaine "Catch Me If You Can"
Rose Burne "The Pride"
Stephen Sondheim, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Modine "Company"
London
Robert Altman, Kevin Spacey "Ressurection Blues"
Nicole Kidman at "Oedipus" (Ralph Fiennes)
Pierce Brosnan at "Filumena" (Judi Dench)
Neve Campbell, Billy Crudup, Derek Jacobi, Kevin Spacey at "A Winter's Tale" (Ethan Hawke, Rebacca Hall)
John Hannah at "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (Brendan Fraser)
Epidavrus Theater, Greece
Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson at "Hyppolitus"
Jeremy Irons at "Winter's Tale" (Hawke, Hall)
Ralph Fiennes at "Happy Days" (Fiona Shaw)
broadwayjim42
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/19/03
#144What Celebrities Have You Seen at Shows?
Posted: 5/29/12 at 9:42pm
Most recently, Victor Garber at the 5/19 matinee of "Death Of A Salesman. Corbin Bernsen was there too.
Papa Jonas, Mama Jonas and Frankie (bonus) Jonas at the 5/19 evening show of "How To Succeed". Frankie was surrounded before the show and during intermission.
Last year (April 23, 2011 matinee, to be exact), my partner, daughter and I saw Darren Criss at How To Succeed. My daughter actually met him at intermission..he was very nice to her, asked her name etc etc...all this months before he was announced to succeed Daniel Radcliffe.
UnderTheHill
Chorus Member Joined: 10/1/07
#145What Celebrities Have You Seen at Shows?
Posted: 6/3/12 at 12:08am
Most recently Joe Torre at Jesus Christ Superstar.
Lily Tomlin at The Divine Sister (who was super nice, and we danced with her leaving the theatre).
Barbara Walters, Michael Musto and Carson Kressley at Chita Rivera: A Dancer's Life.
Philip Seymour Hoffman, David Hyde Pierce at various off-Broadways shows at 59e59, Vineyard, etc...
Sugar78
Swing Joined: 2/9/12
#146What Celebrities Have You Seen at Shows?
Posted: 6/3/12 at 12:34amDolly Parton at Bonnie & Clyde
#147What Celebrities Have You Seen at Shows?
Posted: 7/9/12 at 3:40pm
Last night at DOGFIGHT at 2ST:
-Benj Pasek was on the opposite aisle of row H as me, taking notes obviously
-Marla Mindelle, the day after I saw her in Sister Act
-Andrew Keenan-Bolger
-Alex Wyse
-Nikole Vallins
It was the night to be there!
#148What Celebrities Have You Seen at Shows?
Posted: 7/9/12 at 3:50pm
Jack Black and Diedrich Bader slipped into ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS -- or seat-hopped -- at the end of intermission two Wednesdays ago. Mr. Bader was wearing a suit, and Mr. Black was wearing a t-shirt. My mother stared, and Mr. Black looked uncomfortable.
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FishermanBob
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/9/12
#149What Celebrities Have You Seen at Shows?
Posted: 7/9/12 at 5:09pmSaw Danny Devito and Rhea Perlman at Desire Under the Elms in 2009.
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