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Chita Rivera and The Visit Stage Door
Chita Rivera and The Visit Stage Door
#1Chita Rivera and The Visit Stage Door
Posted: 3/27/15 at 11:17amSo, i know that previews JUST started, but was curious of what Chita's past stage door habits have been. I do know the show had a pre-broadway run- did anybody stagedoor? I saw her in Drood, but didnt stage door. Thanks in advance for the help!
Darreyl with an L!
#2Chita Rivera and The Visit Stage Door
Posted: 3/27/15 at 11:48amshe is 82. in heaven's name leave her alone. please. good grief.
#2Chita Rivera and The Visit Stage Door
Posted: 3/27/15 at 12:00pmWhy do u even post on stage door threads when you have made it clear u hate the whole idea and condemn anyone who does it?
Darreyl with an L!
#3Chita Rivera and The Visit Stage Door
Posted: 3/27/15 at 12:23pm
Possibly for the benefit of people like me, who haven't heard him before.
I can imagine that someone like Kristin Chenoweth, who has just done two exhausting shows, and has another tomorrow, just wants to get home and change her clothes, and try to relax. But leaving the theater there are twenty people who want her to sign their Playbill and she must take a 15 or however minute long detour.
And the nicest are the ones who stay the longest, or who stop to sign at all.
I understand why some people want to have the book signed and want the star to acknowledge his or her existence for 10 seconds. For certain performers I would enjoy it also. But they should come up with an alternative to the stage door.
#4Chita Rivera and The Visit Stage Door
Posted: 3/27/15 at 12:41pmI think you answered your own question. People don't normally post about things as to which they have no opinion, and tend to post about things they feel strongly about. Is that hard to understand? Oh, and by the way, stagedooring is loathesome, but stagedooring an 82 year old who is using her last measure of strength to appear in a strenuous role 8 times a week is despicable. I hope her handlers have devised a way to avoid it without forcing her to remain at the theatre longer than necessary.
#5Chita Rivera and The Visit Stage Door
Posted: 3/27/15 at 12:44pmIt seems like all the theaters have exits other than the stage door so no performer is ever forced to go by a line of waiting fans.
I like a good rhyme more than a good time
#6Chita Rivera and The Visit Stage Door
Posted: 3/27/15 at 12:55pmactually, NJ_BroadwayGirl, most do not, unless you count walking out the main doors, which is no better. At the Lyceum, those are the options, front or back.
#7Chita Rivera and The Visit Stage Door
Posted: 3/27/15 at 1:23pm@OlBlueEyes- It's the fact that Hogan lumps all people who stage door into one narrow category. Also, the language he uses to describe them can be down right nasty. I am certianly not the only one who has called him out on his holier then thou attitude. I fail to see how he could benifit anybody.
Darreyl with an L!
#8Chita Rivera and The Visit Stage Door
Posted: 3/27/15 at 3:00pmCan we stop having the exact same argument on this board over and over and over and over and over? Stage-dooring is not going to stop, and HogansHero is not going to stop speaking out about it. We don't have to drive every stage-door thread off track just because HogansHero posts something about how he doesn't like it.
#9Chita Rivera and The Visit Stage Door
Posted: 3/27/15 at 3:05pmDuring DROOD, Chita went down the line and signed and had any conversation you wanted with her for as long as you wanted. I even saw her giving advice to young actors and telling us all stories about WEST SIDE STORY and BIRDIE. I was amazed at how generous she was with her time.
#10Chita Rivera and The Visit Stage Door
Posted: 3/27/15 at 3:11pmThanks for the info! She seems like an extremely sweet person.
Darreyl with an L!
#11Chita Rivera and The Visit Stage Door
Posted: 3/27/15 at 3:15pmChita is a genuinely nice person and grateful and appreciative of her fans. You should have no problem with her at the stage door if she chooses to come out that way and interact with her fans. They don't make 'em like that anymore.
#12Chita Rivera and The Visit Stage Door
Posted: 3/27/15 at 3:35pmdarreyl, I have not posted on this subject in a long while, but bothering an old woman who might have to miss a performance because of being exhausted from stagedoor nonsense seems even more odious than the run of the mill case. This is not a holier than thou attitude; it is just an attitude about what is right and what is wrong, and about the sense of entitlement people like you have developed and how unfortunate that is. I know the practice is not going to stop, but if one person reads this and thinks about what they are doing and doesn't, that's a better world than existed ante. One step at a time, just like everything else.
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#13Chita Rivera and The Visit Stage Door
Posted: 3/27/15 at 3:41pm
My experience at the Drood stage door was similar to that of Jordan's.
I did not expect her to exit that way and sign, but she did and I was pleasantly surprised. (Of course, I never expect someone to because I know it is fully their choice) Chita Rivera was extremely gracious.
#15Chita Rivera and The Visit Stage Door
Posted: 3/27/15 at 4:00pm
@HogansHero: STOP referring to Chita Rivera as AN OLD WOMAN. It's a virtual slap in the face to a legendary performer who deserves respect and is still going strong and doing what she loves to do: perform and entertain. We should all be so lucky to reach our golden years and still be able to do what we love and have a passion for. Hell, we should all be lucky if we are doing what we love and have a passion for at any stage of our lives. So stop with this utter nonsense. Chita Rivera is just fine and she does not have a problem interacting with her fans. She loves and appreciated the opportunity. She doesn't need you advocating for her in any way shape or form and once again please stop referring to her as an old woman. It's so damned disrespectful.
Updated On: 3/27/15 at 04:00 PM
#16Chita Rivera and The Visit Stage Door
Posted: 3/27/15 at 4:01pm
I totally agree. She is 82 and has just performed for 2 plus hours. Leave her alone when she's trying to get home.
Seriously.
#17Chita Rivera and The Visit Stage Door
Posted: 3/27/15 at 4:02pmActually, the show is only 90 minutes.
#18Chita Rivera and The Visit Stage Door
Posted: 3/27/15 at 4:05pm@ lovebwy: She's 82 NOT DEAD. Again she doesn't need anyone on this board advocating for her. She doesn't have a problem with it so that's that, absolutely nothing you can do about it except maybe GET OVER IT.
#19Chita Rivera and The Visit Stage Door
Posted: 3/27/15 at 4:19pmIt's not like there aren't barricades up ... if a performer's ONLY exit is past fans lined up and they are tired, they can say "so sorry folks I've got somewhere to be." These people are adults who can decide for themselves if they want to stay and interact or go home.
I like a good rhyme more than a good time
#20Chita Rivera and The Visit Stage Door
Posted: 3/27/15 at 4:31pmCarlos-First of all, the lack of respect is being shown by those bothering her, not those calling her an old lady, which she is and which is not disrespectful but factual. There is a this bizarre hagiography that surfaces here every so often holding that "legends" are superhuman. they are not. when she gets home after the remarkable achievement of her performance, those 82 year old bones ache just like your grandmothers do. Performers (most of them) are going to act polite because they don't want threads and articles about how they told the entitled ones to shove it. But I have been with far too many people who have had to endure entitled fans to fantasize that they are happy confronting the stage door gauntlet after busting their ass for a few hours. And that show might be 90 minutes but it takes a lot more than those 90 minutes of work. Respect. Yes, exactly. Think about it instead of yourself.
#21Chita Rivera and The Visit Stage Door
Posted: 3/27/15 at 4:33pmExactly, I don't like the term "Bother" becuase that is not the case- she either chooses to sign or not, it's not a like a person is forcing her or anything like that or chasing her to sign. Get it Right.
Darreyl with an L!
#22Chita Rivera and The Visit Stage Door
Posted: 3/27/15 at 4:36pmAnd you would be the first to post if she did that-up in arms about how nasty she was.
#23Chita Rivera and The Visit Stage Door
Posted: 3/27/15 at 4:43pmYour obsessiveness on this subject is truly pathetic and frankly truly sad.
#24Chita Rivera and The Visit Stage Door
Posted: 3/27/15 at 4:51pm@ HogansHero- How the F would you know? You don't know a damn thing about me. HaHa
Darreyl with an L!
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#25Chita Rivera and The Visit Stage Door
Posted: 3/27/15 at 5:01pm
Met her at the stage door after Kiss of the Spider Woman. Really sweet person. My cousin who lives in NYC used to do theater in the city and she likes to go to the stage doors on occasion to chat with people she's worked with, or whatever, so we went around to the stage door of the Broadhurst, I think it was. Ms Rivera walked up to us, and my cousin told her that I had come all the way from California to see her. She was a very generous, nice lady.
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