Lol, well this was 14 years ago. It was his publicist. This also wasn’t a typical talkback after a performance. It was billed as an evening with Tony Kushner. Similar to what Sondheim use to do across theatres in the early 2000s with the exception of meeting him in the lobby area. The event was maybe 70 minutes. During the talk he discussed signing things after in the lobby, it was also posted everywhere. There was a table set up and his publicist formed the line. I was 2nd in line, very few people, like less than 20. He sat at the table, the line was ready to go and his publicist brought over a local synagogue group of like 10 people…they talked a very long time. After they left the publicist brought an entirely different group, they talked…we all stood in line, the publicist let another group to cut. At this time it was close to midnight and no one from the line was able to get their stuff signed. Kushner got up from the table and said he was done. He said nothing to the 5 or less people that were still in line at that time. The publicist was very sorry and explained the event was over but if you left the stuff with her she would try to get it signed for pickup the following day…
And obviously no one made a scene because we are all freaking adults and Tony Kushner fans but that is the last time I ever stayed in line for an autograph.
And no one was expecting photos as I think this was still like flip phone era. :-) |
