Who's been invited backstage? — Page 3

Rathnait, how do you get to go backstage at CURTAINS?
(only cause I'm seeing the show on Wednesday :) )

At Curtains, you whisper a code to the garbage can next to the stagedoor and it opens for you. It changes every week so you might have to ask Rath if it has changed yet, but last weeks was Demonk.

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Yeah, I'm not allowed to grant that kind of information, C.

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everytime i go backstage at a show, famous people are there too. it seems if you are famous at all, you get to go meet the performers in their dressing rooms.

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I went backstage at Wicked. I'd been waiting at the door for Jennifer Laura Thompson before the show, and this stagehand kept coming in and out. Then he asked my mom and me why we were waiting, said she wouldn't be there for a half hour or so, and invited us back stage.

He showed us a bunch of the props and costumes they keep in the wings, described how a lot of the set changes worked, and let us walk out on stage, where we ran into Carole Shelley . . . which was really sweet. It was such a great experience. :)

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Updated On: 6/18/07 at 12:10 AM

Yup, several times. Usually at the request of one of the actors in the production, though I am also backstage whenever I am collecting for the BC/EFA fundraisers and have to pick up the materials.

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before i sleep yea
i dream of being in broadway as a aspiring actress
any advice of how to get these "connections" to go backstage. i would really like to just stand on the stage itself on ANY show. i really wish i had more friends that are involved in theater so just wondering

i got to go backstage at Dirty Rotten Scoundrels because i won a bidding war during BC/EFA money raising season. the show had JUST opened. John Lithgow wasnt getting as many bidders as he wouldve liked for his 3'x4' self drawn portrait of himself (hes also an artist/cartoonist). so he decided to up the anti to invite the winner to his dressing room to not only meet and greet "with a bottle of champagne!" but he would also draw a 3'x4' characature of the winner! My mom bid 700 dollars for me t have that wonderful experience! I got to take a bow on the stage, as the winner. The stage manager snatched me up, and gave me a backstage tour while John and the rest of the cast was changing. While i was checking everything out, Norbert Leo Butz was walking down the stairs, and he recognized me as the winner, and we had a few moments to chat. He said he had to leave to greet the stage door people. Finally John was ready, and I went up there and met his wife in his HUGE dressing room (aparently its the biggest in new york city). He talked to me about my college plans and such for an hour while fashioning the portrait, and my mom chatted with his wife. He was so kind and sweet. I told him how its my dream to be on broadway and he was kind enough to say "well one day maybe this will be your dressing room"! the portrait was finished and we said our goodbyes and he gave me a big bear hug!! i went down the stairs, and the stage manager told me to go out the stage door. the most incredible part was everyone cheered for me because they saw me carrying the huge poster sized portraits and recognized me as the winner. it was like a taste of being a broadway star haha. but even after over an HOUR Norbert was STILL out there... it had begun to rain, and norbert asked me if i was planning to walk to my hotel with the portraits in teh rain, and i said ya and then he offered me a ride in his car that picked him up. i politely told him it was only a couple blocks away, but damn i shouldve taken the ride! OH well. at least my portraits didnt get ruined! (it was getting them back on the plane ride home that was the trouble :) ). haha.

it was such an amazing experience i will never forget. DEFINITELY worth 700 bucks! haha.

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A few friends and I got taken backstage by the doorman at Hairspray. We were just chatting with him while we were waiting; we told him we saw a few celebrities there that night and he asked us if we'd like to see his photos of all the celebrities he'd met while working there. So he brought us inside and showed us his photo album, then he asked if we'd like to see the stage! He showed us some of the sets and let us look inside the star dressing room (it was late so all the actors/crew were gone).

I also worked selling programs at one of the RENT tours when it came through my city. The merch manager knew I was a huge fan of the show, so one day between shows he took me back to see the stage. I knocked the door knocker like Mimi does before "Light My Candle," LOL.

While waiting on the Spamalot rush line one frozen morning, a stage manager came out and asked me and my friend if we needed to use the bathroom. That got us not only backstage, but onstage as well, and a nice little tour of both.

I got to go backstage at Wicked. But that was because I won an auction. It cost me a pretty penny. It was still a cool experience, though. I got to watch a rehearsal where they were being taught the new "Dancing Through Life" choreography, see all the sets/wigs/costumes, and watch them paint Shoshana Bean green before the show. I wasn't supposed to, but I touched every prop, set or costume I could see.

Updated On: 6/18/07 at 08:52 PM

I was very fortunate to have gone backstage on different shows and concerts including cast parties (premier and closing). I thank the wonderful cast members some of which are dear friends and some of which recognized my name due to my support to the production. The parties are the best since I learned fun things that happened before, during, and after a performance. Cameron Mackintosh and Claude Michel are not divas at all. Nic Hytner was also very cordial.

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