What Gifts Have You GivenTo A Favorite Broadway Artist?

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I've never really understood giving the casts of shows gifts, although I think people who do put a lot of thought into them. Maybe I'm just not that imaginative. I could see making a card or something if a performer moves you.

I mailed my holiday cards from NYC and had one left over, so I left it with someone working at the stage door of the Hilton for Megan Mullally. It was basically me thanking her for coming to the stage door when she didn't have to and making my trip extra memorable and telling her what a big fan I am of her - not just on W&G but also SMP and her talk show and her other various roles. It was entirely unlike me and I can't help thinking that maybe it was a little weird.
Then again, maybe she gets things like that all the time.

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If I have taken a picture with an actor that I like a lot, and I see them perform again, I have given them (on occasion) a copy of it with a note on the back of it.

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I have given a Cookies By Design bouquet and also an Edible Arrangements bouquet. You can google both of those names if you want to know more about them.

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I gave Hugh Panaro a small plush wolf on the first night of "Lestat" previews.

During a talk at the stage door before he left "The Phantom of the Opera," he'd made a passing reference to the wolf hunt scene in the Rice novel. I remembered the conversation when I saw some toy wolves in a souvenir shop in Montreal so I got one for him.

A couple days after I gave him "Little Gray Buddy," I heard that he brought it to rehearsals, swapped it for the life-sized wolf prop, and did the whole "wolfkiller" scene over this tiny little plush toy.

I sent a birthday card and a christmas card to JLY.

My sister gave JLY a bag of green MM's(his New Year's Resolution last year was to eat more greens and he does love chocolate).

To say thanks for the backstage tour, my mom made JLY an Irish soda bread.

Was that the same little plush wolf that made it onto the Broadway.com videos Lestat did? If so, very cute!

Let's see. My friend and I gave JLY a small scrapbook of things regarding Bellevue/Omaha, Nebraska... since he lived here for part of his childhood and did a lot of theatre around here. He really loved it and it was a lot of fun to make.

At the closing show of The Wedding Singer, I gave Kevin Kern some poker chips and cards. I realize he probably already owned them, but eh... I thought it was a fun little gift since he and half of the cast played poker pretty much whenever they weren't actually performing, lol. I also gave Kevin a card when he left Altar Boyz.

I gave Scott Porter a "Kiss Me, I'm A Pirate" shirt while he was still in Altar Boyz. That's an inside joke for most of the old Altarholics...

And I think that's it.

I almost forgot something else.

Back in July, my friend Jaimie and I went to see Grey Gardens together and we picked up really cute leopard jewelry since we know Christine Ebersole loooves leopard. She looked like she was going to cry when we gave her the jewelry.

One of our friends saw the show a few days later, and Christine was wearing the jewelry:



That's the earrings and necklace we gave her.

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