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What shows have you gone backstage for?
keen on kean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/06
#50re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 9:52pmThe point, of course, is not to GET backstage but to be WELCOME backstage.
#51re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 10:13pm
Exactly keen on kean.
I'm not encouraging ANYONE to do what we did.
While we weren't ashamed, embarrassed or embittered by what happened (we actually had fun trying), we learned our lesson.
That's why I don't stage-door. I leave actors alone to go home in peace after a hard nights work.
As I truly think everyone else should do.
What great ones do the less will prattle of
Updated On: 4/9/08 at 10:13 PM
#52re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 10:22pmDirty Rotten Scoundrels and Wicked
"Everytime you step on that stage it is somebody's first Broadway show and somebody's last Broadway show. Make it count."
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#53re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 10:24pm
The Producers (Stadlen)
Darling Of The Day
Bent
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#54re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 10:25pmOh, I know. :) That's why I thought of giving a lap dance to people. I mean, who can resist that? LOL! Totally kidding.
"I don't want the pretty lights to come and get me."-Homecoming 2005
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#55re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 10:28pm
As long as you are over 18, honey.
two words: James Barbour
What great ones do the less will prattle of
#56re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 10:36pm
Three times...
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Imperial)
Les Miserables (Imperial)
Spring Awakening (Eugene O'Neil)
#57re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 10:45pm
"Oh, I know. :) That's why I thought of giving a lap dance to people. I mean, who can resist that? LOL! Totally kidding."
If that doesn't work you could always try baked goods. No one can resist baked goods.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#58re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 10:49pmPhantom and Jersey Boys (both at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco)
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viola13
Broadway Star Joined: 1/17/07
#59re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 10:55pmMary Poppins, A Chorus Line, Company, and the "wall" at Rent.
#60re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 11:02pmMamma Mia!
"In theater, the process of it is the experience. Everyone goes through the process, and everyone has the experience together. It doesn't last - only in people's memories and in their hearts. That's the beauty and sadness of it. But that's life - beauty and the sadness. And that is why theater is life." Sherie Rene Scott
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#61re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/10/08 at 1:24amJust out of curiosity, are most people more interested in meeting the cast or seeing the stage/physical aspects of the production up close?
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
ErinDillyFan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/06
#63re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/10/08 at 8:41am
The Lion King
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
I have been back stage at Carnegie Hall up to the conductor's dressing room on the 7th? floor. The elevator is slow. I rode up with Jeff Koons.
Updated On: 4/10/08 at 08:41 AM
#64re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/10/08 at 8:51am
"If that doesn't work you could always try baked goods. No one can resist baked goods."
Eris, you don't think the spring awakening kids have done that already?
<-- Gwen Stewart, SOLoist at the last show of RENT
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!)
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!)
broadwayjim42
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/19/03
#65re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/10/08 at 10:53am
Fifth of July--I was reviewing the show for my college newspaper, talked to Richard Thomas briefly and he invited us in for a closer look at the set...all I remember are the scrambled eggs.:
Hairspray--My ex-wife used to work with the sister of CJ Hardy Philip, who's been in and out of the show as a swing and dance captain, and a brief backstage tour was arranged. My kids and I got to sit inside the big hairspray can and see a lot of the set pieces very close up. I also wandered out on stage and immediately got told by some disembodied voice to get off it.
#66re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/10/08 at 12:03pm
I forgot to include "Hairspray."
Some friends and I saw the show and stopped to say hi to Tommar Wilson. He invited us backstage and we had a great chat in the wings, plus my friends took photos in front of the giant hairspray can.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#68re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/10/08 at 12:17pmSad
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!''
Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
#69re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/10/08 at 12:34pmI wanted so badly to get a picture of me in "The Chair" with the record.
He's a faker, and you've been taken in by his con. And in doing so, you are enabling him. He is doing more damage to aspergers than papa's words ever could. -Chane/Liverpool on me having asperger syndrome.
#70re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/10/08 at 1:21pm
I know Mary Louise Wilson and was invited backstage after the performance of GREY GARDENS. I had a note from her to show to the stage door guy which he checked out, particularly her signature. Then he called her dresser who came down to escort us to her dressing room. She was very gracious and funny too. On the way to her dressing room we walked by all of the cat food tins which were part of the set.
I wonder if GREY GARDENS will ever go to London or at least tour. What a show.
"Madam Rose...and her daughter...Gypsy!"
Zeitoujo
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/3/06
#71re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/10/08 at 1:47pm
Chorus Line 
"Those You've Known And Lost Still Walk Behind You"-Spring Awakening
#72re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/10/08 at 2:19pmHow did YOU out of all people pull that off?
He's a faker, and you've been taken in by his con. And in doing so, you are enabling him. He is doing more damage to aspergers than papa's words ever could. -Chane/Liverpool on me having asperger syndrome.
#73re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/10/08 at 2:23pmJust DOUBT--the ex's sister is good friends with Heather.
#74re: What shows have you gone backstage for?
Posted: 4/10/08 at 2:24pmLittle Women, Les Mis Revival, The Little Mermaid and Curtains. I thought that the Little Mermaid would be amazing to go backstage at but it was not that exciting. I was disapointed by it. The sets were just kind of cramped and it just lacked the backstage magic that most shows have.
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