#1
Posted: 8/12/11 at 3:54pm
anyone wonder if broadway actors watch there bootleg shows on youtube? lol
actos actually watch there bootleg shows?
#2
Posted: 8/12/11 at 4:01pm
Oh yes. On chance occasions, they actually put them on their websites.
#3
Posted: 8/12/11 at 4:02pm
Yes, they do. Not all, but many. A friend of mine who was in a show that closed quickly and was never recorded told me that he was grateful his show had been bootlegged, since that might be the only way people could be introduced to it.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
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#4
Posted: 8/12/11 at 4:07pm
I've heard stories of actors who talk to people about their bootlegs at the stage door or actively go searching for recordings of themselves, but I don't know how much truth is in that
#5
Posted: 8/12/11 at 4:08pm
THEIR
GAH!
GAH!
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#6
Posted: 8/12/11 at 4:10pm
Barcelona--there is lots of truth in that.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#7
Posted: 8/12/11 at 4:11pm
Some do, some don't. I actually know some that get copies from fans directly.
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#8
Posted: 8/12/11 at 4:12pm
I used to hear that the Spring Awakening actors would actively discuss bootlegs with fans at stage door.
#9
Posted: 8/12/11 at 4:36pm
AH! I have a little story about this! After the first time I saw Young Frankenstein in San Francisco, I had a chat with Joanna Glushak. I told her that she was by far my favorite performance of frau bleucher. she asked if I saw Andrea Martin and I responded "........bootlegs.." under my breath. She looked around,leaned in, and said: "me too." Funny stuff.
#10
Posted: 8/12/11 at 4:43pm
Yes... they... do AND appreciate them as much as all of us do.
Marissa Jaret Winokur was quite vocal about giving her understudy the then brand-new bootleg video of HAIRSPRAY so she could learn the show instead of having to learn it sitting in the audience.
Also, Katie Finneran is grateful that someone 'captured' her final performance in PROMISES, PROMISES as it is the ONLY record of her in the show playing Marge with her growing pregnant belly.
Marissa Jaret Winokur was quite vocal about giving her understudy the then brand-new bootleg video of HAIRSPRAY so she could learn the show instead of having to learn it sitting in the audience.
Also, Katie Finneran is grateful that someone 'captured' her final performance in PROMISES, PROMISES as it is the ONLY record of her in the show playing Marge with her growing pregnant belly.
#11
Posted: 8/12/11 at 5:15pm
While not as common with the videos, many audios are the results of tha actors themselves. How else do you think soundboard recordings happen? They are certainly not the result of a random audience member asking the board op if they can plug into the system.
#12
Posted: 8/12/11 at 5:23pm
A certain famous bootleg of Carrie was filmed by an actor in the show. He set up a camera before the house opened, but the battery died after the first act, and thus we have the incomplete bootleg of Carrie on Broadway. While Patti LuPone has yelled at people for taking pictures, I've heard that she h as looked up videos of herself performing. Krysta Rodriguez once talked about watching the bootleg of the final performance of Good Vibrations, but she didn't go on for that performance.
#13
Posted: 8/12/11 at 8:39pm
On YouTube, I've seen many comments by actors, thanking the uploader for putting a certain bootleg clip on there.
#14
Posted: 8/12/11 at 9:00pm
I'm sure I would if I were them.
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#15
Posted: 8/12/11 at 9:47pm
Of course, they're not ALWAYS on board. There's also the exact opposite...
#16
Posted: 8/12/11 at 10:02pm
I have to wonder how she came across that clip if she's so against people filming her performances.
#17
Posted: 8/12/11 at 11:18pm
I posted on Twitter that I had gotten a copy of a recent Broadway show, and one of the actresses DM'ed me and asked me if I could send her a copy. And she's a fairly well-known one at that. We talked about bootlegs for a while, and turns out she has a fairly large collection herself.
#18
Posted: 8/12/11 at 11:46pm
Can we take a moment to talk about how current bootlegs are illegal and looked down upon, yet, for instance the original Follies footage is 'classic' ?
#19
Posted: 8/13/11 at 12:19am
I can speak from experiance that they certainly do appreciate it- atleast the ones i have encountered. When i wrote to Linda Hart, Isabel Keating and Ashley Spencer i sent them all bootlegs of Hairspray. When i met them at the stage door they were all sooo greatful and thanked me for send them to them. They told me that it was the only way they could actaully see themselves in the show and it helped perserve their memories of the show.
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#20
Posted: 8/13/11 at 2:17am
I've been asked by an actress if I know where I can get my hands on audio or video of specific performances. It was her older work though. I think a lot of actors appreciate that it is being preserved.
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#21
Posted: 8/13/11 at 2:27am
In regards to the SA cast openly talking about it at the stage door I can add some truth to that. When I saw the show, I talked with a specific actor about how I was used to watching the show at the Atlantic and about all the changes and I guess i referenced a video they hadnt seen and I directed them how to get it. I think like any actor, they get curious and want to see their work.
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#22
Posted: 8/13/11 at 2:56am
Can we take a moment to talk about how current bootlegs are illegal and looked down upon, yet, for instance the original Follies footage is 'classic' ?
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#23
Posted: 8/13/11 at 9:57am
Without the origin theatrical bootleggers, we would have no Shakespeare!
#24
Posted: 8/13/11 at 10:02am
While not as common with the videos, many audios are the results of tha actors themselves. How else do you think soundboard recordings happen? They are certainly not the result of a random audience member asking the board op if they can plug into the system.
Many boots I've seen appear to be shot from the house camera...would that be a similar situation, too?
Many boots I've seen appear to be shot from the house camera...would that be a similar situation, too?
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#25
Posted: 8/13/11 at 10:21am
as someone with many actor friends, many of whom have been on Broadway (past and present)--the vast majority of them do--at least my friends, anyway! I've provided many a friend with many a bootleg 
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