Gone backstage?

[dlthom]

Have you ever gone backstage at a show before? Which ones?

[Popular]

RENT in L.A. (as an usher), and RAGTIME tour in DC and in Chicago a few times when my best friend understudied Sarah.

[greatdct]

Yes.

I've gone backstage at Wicked four times, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels twice, and Avenue Q once.

Later this month I will be going backstage at The Phantom of the Opera and most likely Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I'm sure I'll go backstage at Wicked again, as well.

[Cheno'sBiggestfan]

i might be going back stage to sweet charity this november

[popular_elphie]

Wicked and Hairspray.

[MissElphie]

How do you people get backstage?

[popular_elphie]

For Hairspray: I went on a scheduled trip, and the guy running it knew Joel Vig, who used to play the Principal/Guard and other small ensemble roles.

For Wicked: I run a website for Megan Hilty.

[TobyRagg]

Ragtime, Jesus Christ Superstar, 42nd Street, Titanic, Radio City, The Producers, Spamalot, Beauty and the Beast, Wicked, Les Miserables, The Boy from Oz, Hairspray, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Never Gonna Dance, Chicago. Either you know someone or you can show a lot of intrest to the stage manager or the doorman outside.

[greatdct]

Lots of friends in the casts and luck.

[ckeaton]

Noises Off with Patti and Peter Gallagher.
Friends on the inside. :)

[AndiV]

i really have no desire to go backstage...unless i was visiting a friend or something...

[Hanna from Hamburg]

Beauty and the Beast, when it was at the Palace (friend was a dresser). It was cool to see the wig and costume rooms as well as the SMALL amount of space they had back there. They had to fly most of the set pieces up after they came offstage because there wasn't anywhere else to keep the stuff. Also, because of the castle that was always far upstage when it wasn't in use, they had no crossover space. Therefore, they put a staircase in that went down, under the stage and back up on the other side.

Sunset Boulevard when Betty Buckley was in (another friend was a dresser for that). It was amazing to go onstage and see all the "Norma" pictures and statues that were actually pictures of Betty.

[wonderfulwizard11]

I will be going backstage at Wicked for the Behind the Emerald Curtain tour.

[Popular]

Andi - I'm with you on that one. RENT was for work and RAGTIME was for a friend... if I wasn't supposed to be there or invited by a friend I'd just feel in the way.

[brdlwyr]

Man of LaMancha and Gypsy

[DoogieB]

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Met whole cast and stood on stage.

[YOU_aremyLucky_STAR]

Brooklyn. Met Eden and Karen, and saw the ins and outs of the set. Amazing Experience!

[Cheno'sBiggestfan]

oh yeah and i might be going o do that wicked thingy i might be going backstage for sweet charity for a field trip

[GypsyRoseLee]

I went backstage for The Producers. A family friend was the prop mananger, so he gave us the grand tour. It was really cool, when we went the chorus was warming up.

[ShuQ]

LoL...I've tried so hard to get backstage...written so many letters, but it's never happened.

[Broadwayguy62]

I have been backstage at Good Vibrations a few times, All Shook UP, Hairspray and Little Shop of Horrors. A friend was in the cast of all of them thats how i got back.


all great experiences the best taking my picture with the audrey 2 in LSOH

[nystateomind04]

Got to go backstage at the La Cage revival. It was actually strage how it happened, because I had no idea that I had any connection with anyone in the show (I hadn't been in New York for a year) but it turned out that my High School Senior English teacher knew Ruth Williamson (who played Jacqueline) and she arranged for me to see the show and gave me a tour. I was expecting a surreal experience having never been backstage, but it actually felt very real and exciting, which I think is better than "surreal". The cast were incredibly friendly, including Gary Beach who was sick and was going to be out that night but was still very kind. Ruth Williamson gave a great tour and even better proffesional advice--Really great experience.

[Thenardier]

Well, like, this one time Idina brought me backstage to Wicked. But I totally got into a fight with kristin...so I wasn't allowed back. But

[mizzie]

Once my mother and I were trying to get tickets to Urinetown, and it was really dark, so we accidently walked into the stage dorr instead of the box office door. The people inside were horrified, and got us out pretty quickly.

[luvtheEmcee]

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

Both were really great experiences that I stumbled upon by pure, dumb luck (and knowing some great people), but I could't help feel very self-conscious of where I was, and how out of place I was. That's... their territory. Saw some cool stuff, though. I got to stand on the stage at the Hilton, and it wasn't really something I ever thought I'd feel quite so connected to, given that I'm not an actor, and have never had a desire to be on stage. It was one of the most incredible, overwhelming things I've ever felt, though - to be on a Broadway stage.