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What shows have you gone backstage for?
#25re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 3:26pm
In The Heights
I won lotto!
I got to go on the stage!
Best night of my life!:)
#27re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 4:07pmDoubt, Wicked, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Kiss Me Kate.
broadwayboy522
Leading Actor Joined: 5/6/06
#28re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 4:07pmThe Drowsy Chaperone(The Marquis), Wicked(Gershwin), Beauty And The Beast(Lunt-Fontanne), and the High School Musical National Tour
#29re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 4:50pmOMFG. That is the nicest dressing I've ever seen in my life. Patti LuPone, you diva. LOL. I've been backstage at the Winter Garden in 1999 for Cats. It was the first B'Way show I ever saw and I got backstage. My mom worked her magic for me. I love that woman. I recently just went backstage at the Palace Theatre when I saw Legally Blonde. Standing on that stage looking at those 1000 or so empty seats... omg, it took my breath away. BTW the Palace is really cramped.
#30re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 5:05pm
Kelli O'Hara's dressing room at "South Pacific isn't even close to that size! Wow.
Mike, I've just been lucky I guess. One of the "SpamAlot" actors invited me backstage for that show and then brought me back again when I saw him in "Curtains". I met Tina Maddigan outside the "Wedding Singer" stage door before the show and she invited me to come back after the show. At "South Pacific," a friend brought me back with him when he went in to visit Danny Burstein. When I went back at the "My Fair Lady" tour, it was only because it was ridiculously windy and cold so the stagedoor manager let us wait inside.
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TooDarnHot
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
#32re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 5:30pmMamma Mia with Carey Anderson
#33re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 5:49pm
Legally Blonde (a few times, lol), High Fidelity, The Pirate Queen, Altar Boyz, Zanna, Don't, Grease, and RENT.
musicandtemiror
Leading Actor Joined: 11/14/07
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
#36re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 6:10pmThe Wedding Singer and Grey Gardens.
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
RyToast1
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/07
#37re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 6:12pmCity Center Gypsy, City Center Follies, City Center Applause, City Center Juno, City Center Stairway to Paradise, City Center Face the Music.......
#38re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 6:48pm
"Open the stage door and walk in.
Whether or not you get thrown out is a different story."
Ha, love it! lol
I got backstage at the Broadhurst because I knew someone in Les Miz. She's in a different show now that I haven't seen yet. Maybe when I go to see that one I'll get to go backstage as well. Though I'm not counting on it.
Tom148502
Featured Actor Joined: 5/21/07
#39re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 7:00pm
FLORA THE RED MENACE - Invited by Liza Minnelli
CITY OF ANGELS - Invited by Doug Tompos, a cast member and friend
TITANIC - Invited by Matthew Bennett, a cast member and friend
ELAINE STRITCH AT LIBERTY - Arranged by a friend at the Paley Museum of Radio and Television
#40re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 7:09pm
August: Osage County
Legally Blonde
Spring Awakening
Grease (This time around.)
Mythus
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
#41re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 7:36pmI went backstage at Spamalot, in January '07. Ahhh, it was amazing. I had written a letter to Martin Moran about his book (The Tricky Part), and in his reply he graciously offered to show me backstage if I ever came to see the show. Standing onstage at the Shubert was so bizarre and overwhelming in the best way possible. I even got to shake Marin Mazzie's hand - of course, I was so out of it that I completely forget where I was and who she was. I'm glad, I think, because if I had been fully conscious I probably would've shrieked "YOU WERE MOTHER IN RAGTIME I LOVE YOU."
#42re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 7:37pm
Brooklyn, Wicked (twice), Young Frankenstein. I learned so much at each and I think about my experiences all the time.
#43re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 7:43pmSo, if I went to the Shubert theater, went in the stage door entrance, and did a lap dance or something for whoever, I'd be allowed back there? Right? Yeah, just hope I would get kicked out by a male, because that would be pretty embarrassing having to do one for a female since I'm not a lesbian. Or better yet, I could just tell whoever wanted to stop me that the lap dance is for Tom Deckman. LMAO!!!!!!!!!
#44re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 7:53pm
"Open the stage door and walk in.
Whether or not you get thrown out is a different story."
I have to learn to read the small print at the bottom.
#45re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 7:53pmJersey Boys, Xanadu, and the back alleyway of rent but not backstage.
Cages or wings? Which do you prefer? Ask the birds. Fear or love, baby? Don't say the answer Actions speak louder than words. (Tick, Tick... BOOM!)
i*heart*fame
Broadway Star Joined: 9/15/04
#46re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 7:56pmGrey Gardens, Jersey Boys, Beauty and the Beast, Fame, BKLYN, Little Women.
#47re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 8:00pm
YEARS ago some friends and I went to see a production of Pal Joey starring Dixie Carter and Elaine Stritch.
A couple months before hand my friend had played viola for a production of Cinderella at the same theatre. During intermission he mentioned how easy it was to just walk in the stage door. So after a couple of intermission cocktails we decided we would just walk in and introduce ourselves to Elaine Stritch.
So sure enough at the end of the show we waltzed on through the stage door.. but it was a maze of a place and we couldn't figure out where her dressing room was..
We were lost and it is was SO obvious that we didn't belong there.. FINALLY we hear that distinctive Stritch cackle.
We think.. "Eureka!"
We turn the corner and suddenly this ENORMOUS man blocks us and says .. "Can I help you?
stunned.. I whimpered, "Ah, we are here to see Elaine."
"Does she know you are coming?"
"It's a surprise"
Well.. before you could say "ZIP". He hauled our asses out the stage door and slammed it behind us.
We spent the rest of the night at a bar laughing and laughing about how we came "this close" to meeting the Stritch.
#48re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 8:08pmYeah, I think on my next trip to the city, I'll visit the Shubert and Winter Garden Theater to see how far I can get backstage by offering lap dances to Tom Deckman and Andy Kelso. Should be a blast. :) Maybe they won't arrest me. Haha!!!!!
#49re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 8:11pm
I suggest getting detailed floor plan first.
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