Stage Door Dramas

I will say, and credit to Rukaya, that is one of my favourite photos ever! I love it! 😊

In the last 24 hours these girls have found out about Lucie in Waitress and now Waitress is their favorite show so should Lucie do the West End run we are set for similar behavior.

I must admit I've done that before. Just once. I wanted to meet Michelle Visage and it was my only chance, as I had everything booked and wasn't willing to pay for this again. But I'm a drama-free, respectful stagedoorer.

Somebody needs to write a book.

I've never seen Six, Heathers, Bat or Jamie but I knew who it would be before searching. There can't be so much smoke without fire. But they certainly aren't the only ones. They are not all female either!

It's very rare for performers and shows to call out people so it must have got to a very bad level for that to happen.

I know of a fan who got so obsessed with an actor, she befriended his friends on social media (they later blocked her when they realised), started holidaying in the village he lives in when he was not touring, and one day he went to the supermarket across the road from his house, guess who happened to be in the car park?

When she posted the pic from the car park online her own friends started questioning if it was actually coincidental.

Anyway I’m forging ahread with my campaign to BAN stage dooring. I’d do this for all troublesome shows, i.e “Jermie”, Wicked, Heathers (if it ever darkens our doors again) and anything containing Miss Carrie Fletcher so thats Cheerleader and Les Mis off the menu too.

And I don’t mean some half arsed ban, I mean doors closed, sign up saying “No cast signings” and everyone leaves the theatre by different exits. 

I know some of the cast enjoy this stuff but they’ve just been applauded for three hours and really don’t need any more adoration, and the people who want to intereact with them can do it from behind their keyboards. 

Yep, it spoils it for the majority who know how to behave properly but it sounds like it’s already being spoilt for everyone by the minority anyway.  

I always think of this when I think of stage dooring . . 



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I never used to do it, but now I go for a quick thank you and hello to performers I love, and always for Blood Brothers. I don't even ask for pics or autographs, and if there are other people there, especially if they are friends/family of cast, I stand back until I'm greeted.

I never demand a conversation, I know they've got cars to fetch, public transport to catch, they're tired etc. So if it's a quick hi, that's fine by me.

I don't really like stage-dooring because no matter how kind the performers are, I always feel like it's a really weird and artificial encounter. I like having books signed by authors though (and have occasionally cornered playwrights and composers to get their signatures on my books), so I get the impulse. It's just about having a moment of connection where you get to say "I appreciate you", they get to say "I appreciate your appreciation", and the autograph is both a souvenir of and a tangible goal for the meeting (imagine if we didn't do autographs, and stage-dooring was literally just about having a brief awkward conversation with no clear "well, you've signed that, that's a good indicator that our interaction has concluded, let's get on with our nights" moment!).

You don't have to understand it yourself, you don't have to want to do it yourself even if you do understand it, you don't even have to therefore condone the people who take it way too far and just won't let the moment come to an end, but it does happen and it does mean something to the people who do it. Live and let live, unless they're taking it way too far, in which case live and let live unless you have an opportunity and/or some standing to say "you are making people uncomfortable, please dial it back".