| Many More Encounters (long) | |
| Last Edit: BroadwayTonyJ 11:05 am EDT 05/21/18 | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 11:02 am EDT 05/21/18 | |
| In reply to: Ive only had 3 encounters - dramedy 04:59 pm EDT 05/20/18 | |
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| It probably depends on where you stay in New York, how much you walk around the neighborhoods, how early you get to the theater before a show and what your routine is, and how often you do rush lines, but I've literally crossed paths with dozens of actors, directors, playwrights, and politicians over the years (1989 through today) in New York, London and Chicago. I've even been seated in the theater (or at a table or in the same booth) next to people as diverse as Joe Mantello, Hal Prince, Donna Murphy, Victoria Clark, Ali MacGraw (twice on the same trip), Kitty Hart, Seth Rudetsky, Matthew Morrison, Michael Park, and probably others I've forgotten. Joan Rivers literally bumped in to me at the Broadhurst for 700 Sundays -- my partner and I were in standing room -- and gave us both a piece of red string licorice to munch on. Before a show, I was joined for a cup of coffee on different occasions by Edward Albee and Pamela Myers. I encountered both Chita Rivera (in Chicago) and Bernadette Peters (in New York) when they were walking their dogs -- Chita's little puppy kept jumping on my partner's leg so she let him hold the dog for a bit. I met Hugh Jackman once when he was jogging with a friend of his. I ran into both Michael Urie and Tom Wopat when they were riding their bikes -- Urie wears a helmet and Wopat does not. I spoke to both Neil Simon and Elaine Joyce in the lower level of the Friedman when I was there to see The Assembled Parties. Last year on the same trip I ran into both Michael Bloomberg (lower level of the Shubert) and Chuck Shumer (at LaGuardia). And then there was the time last spring when Michael Faist and his girlfriend were out very early one morning (probably around 6:00 AM) and kept walking past me and a bunch of my friends who were in line for standing room at the Music Box. I was first in line and I got the impression that he wanted to talk to me -- eventually he whispered something in his girlfriend's ear, she came up to me and asked me if I wouldn't mind talking to her boyfriend because he wanted to ask me about something. He was pretty shy and incredibly polite -- he even introduced himself. I said, "Dude, I know who you are -- I caught your show off-Broadway last year and I've even seen an interview of you on TV." He wanted to know why so many of us were lined up that early when the box office wouldn't be open for another 4 hours. So I explained to him about how standing room works. |
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