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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2017 13:30:14 GMT
With all this talk about people sending gifts it occurs to me that it might be fun to send weird gifts anonymously to random people. Not weird in the sense of creepy, but incomprehensible: a neatly gift-wrapped light bulb, a windscreen wiper, or a mug containing a collection of USB leads. Something to make the world just a little bit stranger.
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Post by lovingtheatre2k17 on Jul 14, 2017 16:05:58 GMT
I am a fan of Carrie, however I feel as though she is getting a little defensive on twitter and should calm down and not respond when people tweet her rubbish about now coming to stage door. She is however, happy to meet her fans, but some people are taking it too far with the treatment they are giving her for not coming to stage door and the presents they are giving her, although I know she can't exactly control that. Welcome to the forum! Whats the most extravagent present you've seen or heard of Carrie being given? Any goss?  Most of the gifts she posts about being given seem to be token gifts, but she has been given onesies, large value gift cards and a slab of chocolate with her headshot on it before apparently. |
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Post by rockinrobin on Jul 14, 2017 18:13:34 GMT
Onesies?! Dear God.
While I can imagine giving someone chocolates if one really has to bring/send a gift (WITHOUT headshot) - I absolutely cannot imagine myself giving anyone a onesie, let alone my favourite actor! That's beyond creepy.
On second thought, I would pay a lot to see him wearing one...
*Scrolls through eBay*.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2017 18:16:33 GMT
hehe we were trying to come up with a comedy gift for a colleauge who is leaving today and a onseie was actually suggested (and vetoed!!)
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Post by Kim_Bahorel on Jul 14, 2017 18:42:09 GMT
With all this talk about people sending gifts it occurs to me that it might be fun to send weird gifts anonymously to random people. Not weird in the sense of creepy, but incomprehensible: a neatly gift-wrapped light bulb, a windscreen wiper, or a mug containing a collection of USB leads. Something to make the world just a little bit stranger. Someone gave Adam Linstead rosemary |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2017 16:41:35 GMT
That's what was semi-done for Daniel Radcliffe in R&G Are Dead at the Old Vic. Wasn't a "sit at a table a sign" situ, but it was a meet and greet in the foyer, separate from the stage door. No extra cost, just had to show your ticket to prove you did actually see the show. A friend of mine got inside without a ticket (wrong, I know). |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2017 18:34:05 GMT
With all this talk about people sending gifts it occurs to me that it might be fun to send weird gifts anonymously to random people. Not weird in the sense of creepy, but incomprehensible: a neatly gift-wrapped light bulb, a windscreen wiper, or a mug containing a collection of USB leads. Something to make the world just a little bit stranger. I think everyone should put in 50p and then we can have a vote on who gets the bizarre gift, and what they get  I've been tempted to send Jackie Hughes a gift wrapped jar of Nutella with a note saying "I'm sorry your fanbase are so f**king weird". |
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Post by d'James on Jul 15, 2017 20:17:12 GMT
We should give them Theatreboard merch!!!!
(Merch corrected to mercy on autocorrect - make of that what you will.)
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 15, 2017 20:56:17 GMT
Ok so, appropriate stage door gifts would be
'Jax' - Nutella.
Kerry - A scrunchie
Imelda - Ear plugs.
Amber - Nurofen cold and flu
You get the idea, over to you.
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Post by d'James on Jul 15, 2017 20:58:18 GMT
I get the first and last, why he middle two?
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Post by LaLuPone on Jul 15, 2017 21:00:05 GMT
I get the first and last, why he middle two? The scrunchie I'm guessing because Kerry's a fidgeter like with the famous hair tucking in Wonderland. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2017 21:02:48 GMT
David Suchet did this in Sydney a few years ago. There wasn't a huge crowd, but we had to wait outside and then we invited inside individually to a small vestibule for a photo/auto or just a chat. He was very charming and didn't rush us at all, actually taking an interest in our conversation. David has always been a class act, despite being a big star for a long time, he will always try to engage with fans when he can. I've seen a lot lesser stars than David having much bigger egos. |
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Post by d'James on Jul 15, 2017 21:09:14 GMT
David Suchet did this in Sydney a few years ago. There wasn't a huge crowd, but we had to wait outside and then we invited inside individually to a small vestibule for a photo/auto or just a chat. He was very charming and didn't rush us at all, actually taking an interest in our conversation. David has always been a class act, despite being a big star for a long time, he will always try to engage with fans when he can. I've seen a lot lesser stars than David having much bigger egos. He used to shop where I worked, very unassuming and normal. Unlike a certain member of Blue I could mention. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2017 21:15:02 GMT
Carrie to be fair has asked fans not to bring presents to the stage door. I'm sure she appreciates them but if she is on tour she can be away from home for a few weeks so it creates extra luggage for her and she may not have time to go through them. Fans have always brought gifts to book/record signings over the years so she'd get a lot there.
The gifts I've seen performers really like are when someone perhaps gives them a copy of something they were in years ago or something they may have been after. I've known people sometimes see old images of themselves and ask for a copy etc.
Many years ago a late friend of mine at Malvern Festival theatre gave a copy of a poster from over 60 years earlier to the legendary Yehudi Menuhin. Lord Menuhin had performed with Elgar there when he was a child prodigy and this was a poster of the concert. Yehudi was so excited to see this he insisted the gentleman come inside and watch him rehearse as a thank you. He then sent out an assistant to buy a frame for the poster and was seen leaving the theatre after the concert proudly carrying the framed poster.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 28, 2017 19:50:39 GMT
^^ someone must have told her to put a sock in it then. Or a teapig. Or a cuddly toy.
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Post by Kim_Bahorel on Jul 29, 2017 12:56:25 GMT
I did a search through twitter found a guy that posted long thread about AF stage door on Sunday. What ever you feel about CHF I feel really sorry for the rest of cast & crew
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Post by longinthetooth on Jul 29, 2017 14:47:25 GMT
Mm, not sure about this. I have been to Stage Door several times (at different shows and for more than one person), and, if anything, the crews have sometimes shown "disrespect" to those waiting outside, by looking at us as if we were dirt.
I am no spring chicken, certainly not one of CHF's blog followers, and always wait quietly for the person I want to see. If someone else comes out, and I am not a fan, I don't see the point of pretending I am and getting in the way of someone who is.
If I were a member of the backstage crew, it wouldn't bother me in the slightest if someone said "Nope! Nobody!" The audience haven't come to see me!
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 29, 2017 15:07:24 GMT
I went to Carrie's twitter to see if there was anything about THE stage door again. There wasn't but there was this enticing invitation to participate in an all day Q&A.
She then answered 20 of the questions and completely ignored the other 260.
I mean, I don't expect her to sit there on her phone all day answering inane questions about her hair, but she did offer!
Funniest thing was that even when its clear shes stoppoed playing, the kiddies keep on asking. Lol.
Still, it's all profile init. She's not daft!
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Post by Kim_Bahorel on Jul 29, 2017 15:21:37 GMT
if anything, the crews have sometimes shown "disrespect" to those waiting outside, by looking at us as if we were dirt. I have seen this happen. I have watched a crew talk & laugh at people waiting outside a show before. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2017 16:21:23 GMT
She then answered 20 of the questions and completely ignored the other 260. To be fair, some many most nearly all of the questions people ask in online Q&As are either unbelievably inane, numbingly stupid or disturbingly insane. |
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 29, 2017 17:06:12 GMT
What on God's sweet green earth is a "Watch Me Wednesday"?
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Post by lovingtheatre2k17 on Jul 29, 2017 17:21:18 GMT
What on God's sweet green earth is a "Watch Me Wednesday"? A video she makes on her YouTube channel every Wednesday and she vlogs her day/week |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 29, 2017 17:22:51 GMT
What on God's sweet green earth is a "Watch Me Wednesday"? When it comes to self promotion the woman is a machine. |
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Post by longinthetooth on Jul 29, 2017 17:59:04 GMT
Also, her character in the show is Wednesday Addams.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2017 1:12:29 GMT
I've often seen people thinking backstage staff are members of the cast despite them wearing a theatre sweatshirt/t-shirt, also musicians carrying instruments being asked after musicals. So I can understand staff who just want to get home getting annoyed, often they may be waiting for a taxi/Uber and crowds can make this harder.
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