Stage Door Dramas

What actors are tweeting? Because from what I've seen it's literally only Carrie Fletcher CONSTANTLY going on about it and and causing sh*tstorms on Twitter (literally 3 seperate time this week alone) and other actors jump in her defense (Chitty actors/ Nadim Naaman etc) but it's always in reply (direct or not) to something she initiated.

If her fans are that crazy- just stop stage dooring. She claims it's because she's a Youtuber so she has it worse than everyone else and that no one suffers from it as much- that's the reason she seems to talk about it more than any other performer. Are you meaning to tell me that when Dan Radcliff/ Tom Hiddelston/ Benedict Cumberbatch/ Sheridan Smith/ David Tennant/ Cathrine Tate, etc etc etc (litteraly huundreds of other well known performers)even Kerry Ellis/ Rachel Tucker and those Wicked bunch- don't have crazy stage door experiences? that people dont tweet them they are dissapointed when they don't exit through? I've never seen ONE of those SHAME the (truthfully- rude- but what can you do) audience member for it and go on tangent after tangent after tangent.

If her fans are THAT crazy- maybe something in her manner/ videos/ personality encourages that kind of behaviour subliminally. But girl really needs to give it a break- there are bound to be downsides to your job and you have to have some kind of grace about it I think...

I could be wrong, maybe there are others who make public their concerns with it- but I do follow a bunch (not her suprisingly- but actors keep re-tweeting her "gospel") and have only seen it in relation to her.

(And no of course I am not even implying she has to go through stage door, or that tweeting dissapointment at actors not doing so in any way a respectable thing- but it's not that big a tragedy recieving those tweets- and obviously her tangents aren't working)

I often wonder if they're really fans if they can turn on their idol so quickly.

I've told the story before, I'm sure, but the one time I met someone I was a fan of, I froze and mispronounced my name so the person had to double check with me what I'd said. Since then I don't try to meet people and just thank the ones I've really liked on Twitter.

Oh my God, I hate her so much.

It's not just Carrie, there's been lots of times recently when people have said that couldn't come out between or after shows for whatever reason (not that they should have to explain) and have then been bombarded by tweets from people outside who make out that this decision has caused them some kind of mental breakdown, destroyed their life etc etc.

Although where Carrie goes wrong, in my opinion, is that she keeps fueling the fire about the stage door by keeping responding to negativity rather than ignoring it , then complains when people come back to her about it. Her tweets can sometimes come across as being very rude,  no matter how many xxxxs she puts after them.

Someone needs to tell Carrie: 'Never explain, never apologise'.

There does seem to have been a massive rise in the "more deserving than you" fans recently: the sort who have seen the show many times and think this entitles them to exclusive access to the cast and the right to shove non-fans out of the way. I don't remember seeing or hearing about that until about ten years ago. It used to be that the regulars would stand back and let the one-timers go first because the regulars could always come back another time. There was none of the selfishness there is today.

Carrie Hope Fletcher needs to stage door at a show featuring John Barrowman to put her experiences into context. Those ladies are on fire! They would rip out your throat with their bare hands and tie it round your waist like a belt if they thought you were closer to La Barrowman than they were.

Something I've been hearing of and seeing more of is people going to the stagedoor when they've not even been to see the actual show. I saw this in a video on youtube from the Harry Potter stagedoor and Noma did brush it off with a joke, but I think you could tell that she thought it was a bit strange I suppose, and that for some very commercial shows people go to the stagedoor to get the photo so that they can be seen being seen with the most popular actors of the present.

Fisher is being a bit of an attention seeker.

But stage door fans can be terrifying. One David Tennant fan came to the stage door every single performance of Richard II (and goosed him, once). There were Whovians hanging around the Court even during rehearsals for Matt Smith's play, before they'd even arrived!

I remember at Coriolanus they instituted a rule of no ticket, no autograph. So you'd find fans waiting outside the theatre when the audience let out asking people if they could please have their used ticket.

I believe that Hiddleston finally gave up on stage dooring when he realised that people were giving the Donmar staff grief. He's always had a reputation of being very accommodating, which had raised expectations considerably. Sadly, if you're a celeb you are better off being ruthlessly arbitrary and inconsistent about stage dooring/giving autographs, so that people appreciate that if they get a autograph/selfie they are very lucky, and don't expect it as a given.

What's goosing?

There was a funny play on TV a couple of years ago about a group of people who waited at stage doors. One of then used to give notes to the actors on their performances and one was a stalker. I forget what it was called but it was very funny and slightly alarming.