I go to the stage door, and I just commune.
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Many other shows had barred stage-door handshakes and hugs and asked performers not to touch the Playbills they were signing before the Broadway League issued its recommendation for an end to stage door activities.
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IRVINGTON Irvington Stage Door Reading Series: An Afternoon of One Acts.
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I go in by the stage door; I'm happiest that way.
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Everybody wants to tell you their story at the stage door.
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Bill also talks about sliding under the stage door like Indiana Jones.
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After the show, I did the stage door and signed for everybody.
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I get handed at least a peach or two almost every stage door.
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Bridges enters the stage door of the Met for the final dress rehearsal.
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Garry hired a 'stage door manager,' who was actually a champion chess player.
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Many shows announced a suspension of the stage door tradition on social media.
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Fan art handed to the cast at the stage door lines the stairwell backstage.
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Suddenly, the stage door swings open and four men walk calmly to the stage.
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Meanwhile, girls desperate to bed him formed a disorderly queue at every stage door.
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Somebody the other day, at the stage door, asked, 'Is it an intentional Potter reference?
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On the couch was a piece of fan art he had received at the stage door.
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Other recent "Glass Menagerie" revivals have cast actresses who can leave Laura's limp at the stage door.
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"I remember this young Palestinian girl ran into my arms at the stage door, thanking me," he says.
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But fans are still mobbing the stage door, because they think they know who Mr. Radcliffe really is.
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To prepare, she watched films that Mr. Mills said his mother loved, like "Stage Door" and Humphrey Bogart movies.
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He entered the theater through the stage door, and once inside, Jeter greeted a few people and signed in.
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"All right, love you ladies!" he called out, and braved the coterie of autograph hunters waiting outside the stage door.
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Carrying a hat box, he was heading through a stage door at the Wolf Trap performing arts center in Virginia.
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He was so struck by an actress in the cast that he went to the stage door seeking an autograph.
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And at the stage door when I do a play, the fans that come and see me are mostly female.
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But the correct response from a news outlet is: Don't let the debate-stage door hit you on the way out.
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He also didn't view dancers as a dating pool and hang about, lovelorn, like a Stage Door Johnny from vaudeville days.
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Posters on either side of the stage door advertised her tour through Canada, where she spent her formative years, and California.
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Grammy: Do be a dear and leave the Lin-Manuel's Grammy at the stage door to pick up after the cast's performance.
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No speeches were given on stage or addresses made to the adoring fans waiting for autographs at the stage door by Miranda.
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They booked a hotel near the theater where the show is playing so Lucy could wait outside the stage door each night.
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That's certainly true of the two central couples — former showgirls and their stage-door Johnnies — whose toxic marriages are soon laid bare.
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After wandering for a while, I found myself standing, in a small crowd, near the stage door at Radio City Music Hall.
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We finish the stage door at midnight and it's kind of hard to unwind, so I'm not usually up before 11 a.m.
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As I got across the stage, I was close enough to the stage door to hop up while the shooters were reloading.
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I love walking into the stage door, and I love saying hello to everyone as I make my way to the dressing room.
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I look in every direction, at the street names, at the awning over a restaurant, at a sign above a theater's stage door.
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I'd just come out of the army with 30 other hopeful young actors playing stage-door Johnnies in a film called Trottie True.
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She said that as Beck entered the stage door, she tossed the documents at his feet and announced that he had been served.
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"The movie really freed me," he said by the stage door, wearing a red sweater with a pair of earbuds around his neck.
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Mr. Nézet-Séguin left the stage door 14 hours after his arrival, signing a couple of autographs for die-hard Wagnerites waiting outside.
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The Broadway League, the industry's trade association, discouraged the common practice of actors greeting fans at the stage door for pictures and autographs.
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During World War II, Ms. Perry helped found the organization behind the Stage Door Canteens, where stars waited tables and entertained service members.
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According to the spokeswoman, a handful of masked protesters attempted to force their way to the stage door, prompting the police to intervene.
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In an attempt to cheer up customers, the cast of the musical "Come From Away" performed a song in front of the stage door.
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Egos were checked at the stage door as superstar after superstar hit the stage to perform hits of their own and sing along covers.
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The stage door of New York City Ballet is where dancers find fan mail, extravagant bouquets and the occasional request for autographed toe shoes.
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After the show, I went around to the stage door, and Hope came out, a Cadillac waiting to take him to the Cornhusker Hotel.
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"I get handed at least a peach or two almost every stage door," Hammer told Stephen Colbert on his recent stop on The Late Show.
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A small stage door down a narrow side street opens into the cavernous space, split across two floors, connected with a spiraling art deco staircases.
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Even though I often interview Broadway artists and see over 200 shows each year, I can still be a giddy fan at a stage door.
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"As an added precaution, we are highly recommending that all stage door activities be eliminated for the time being," the league said in a statement.
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"My disguise," he said, explaining that he hoped to get out of the theater without being recognized by any fans waiting by the stage door.
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We are responsible for their safety, health, well-being from the time that they walk into the stage door until the time they walk out.
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As the doorman at the stage door, Mr. Gonzalez makes sure things go smoothly when the cast exits to the swarms of fans awaiting them nightly.
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Lauren had her face autographed by the cast at the stage door and posted a photo of it on Twitter, which made a splash among fans.
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Ms. Atwell's mother took her to plays from the time she was 4, and they would wait afterward at the stage door to thank the actors.
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Whether you're a stage door regular or an occasional theatergoer, these shows will make you feel as if you've got the best seats in the house.
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CreditCreditDevin Yalkin for The New York Times The actor Stephen Payne first shuffled through the stage door of a Broadway theater more than 30 years ago.
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I put every cast member's face on a candle and carried them to the stage door, and I learned some sign language to interact with the cast.
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Ms. Anelli was a Renthead who saw that show more than 50 times, and befriended one of its stars, the actor Anthony Rapp, at the stage door.
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Ms. Creore's inspiration had been her volunteer work at the Stage Door Canteen, the American Theater Wing's wartime setup in a theater basement on West 44th Street.
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Whether you're a stage door regular or an occasional theatergoer, these six podcasts will make you feel as if you've got the best seat in the house.
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City Kitchen "Tonight, I'm dining on pheasant bordelaise with peach fuzz dressing," said Ginger Rogers's character in the wisecracking 1937 movie "Stage Door," ridiculing snobbish fancy food.
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When it came time to perform my Swan Lake number, I realized that I just had to go for it and leave my insecurities at the stage door.
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BroadwayCon, scheduled to feature such stars as Lin-Manuel Miranda ("Hamilton"), was the brainchild of a fan and an actor who met years ago at the "Rent" stage door.
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Afterward, in the pouring rain, hundreds and hundreds of fans filled West 46th Street, waiting for Mr. Miranda to emerge from the stage door at the Richard Rodgers Theater.
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As he was leaving to tour out-of-town with fellow drag performers in the troupe, he explains, his parents arrived early at the stage door to say goodbye.
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"We are highly recommending that all stage door activities be eliminated for the time being," the Broadway League, a trade organization representing producers and theater owners, said on Tuesday.
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It's hard to tell, actually, why Louise even goes out with Harry after he waylays her at the stage door of her show, where she is in the chorus.
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When he spoke about meeting a teenage girl with a terminal illness at the stage door in London — with her crying parents filming the encounter — Boyle began to tear up.
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But it wasn't until all the little girls showed up at the stage door, dressed in pink and green, that I realized this was bigger than just our little show.
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The way she treats all of her staff members, her employees, her friends … On days when I don't feel like doing the stage door I'm like, 'What would Taylor do?
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"Last night, standing in the stage door with my brothers for life— John and Dave —after filming the last episode of the 5th and final season of Fuller House," he wrote.
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It was him, a baby faced and smiling fan meeting Sutton Foster at the stage door during her Tony Award-winning run in "Thoroughly Modern Millie" more than a decade ago.
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The musical, based on a young-adult novel , arrived on Broadway with a mob of online superfans, who now swarm the Lyceum stage door each night to take selfies with Roland.
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More important than that were the fans who would wait at the stage door—Johnny knew those were the most important fans who were going to bring other kids along with them.
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In July, Hammer admitted on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert that he was repeatedly asked to sign a certain item outside the stage door of his Broadway play Straight White Men.
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On Monday night, Periscope shared interviews with the cast before the preview show, released an exclusive track ("Only Us") and got up close and personal with the actors at the stage door.
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He was supposed to fly to Manchester, England, this week to inspect a mock-up version of a stage door planned for a new theater that his company is constructing in Manhattan.
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Because all three were performers, I nicknamed the loft and its inhabitants the Footlights Club, in honor of Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman's 1936 play, "Stage Door," about aspiring actresses boarding together.
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From there we walked to the stage door of La Scala — a theater where Mr. Incontri often spent matinees in his childhood — to be met by Paolo Besana, the opera house's communications director.
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While Davis was in hair and makeup, I was directed to wait in her double-wide trailer, which was docked in the corner of a parking lot, thirty feet from the stage door.
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A few years ago I waited at the stage door to meet Daniel after his phenomenal performance and he was kind enough to speak to me giving me much needed wisdom for the future.
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Sedaris's description of his last encounter with Tiffany — beautifully lobbed at the reader from left field — describes her waiting for him at the stage door after one of his rock-star-like literary entertainments.
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Happy Presidents' Day, on which we honor the birthday of George Washington here at Cooking by posting this clip of Christopher Jackson singing the national anthem at the stage door of "Hamilton" in 2015.
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Outside the "Hadestown" stage door, a few minutes before curtain on a recent evening, Chavkin bumped into Anaïs Mitchell, the show's thirty-five-year-old writer and composer, who had flown in from Vermont.
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When I saw the show a second time recently (I loved it even more), I saw Ms. Altomare's effect on other audience members, young and old, who waited to meet her at the stage door.
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A father who is a huge fan of "Be More Chill" made this charcoal portrait of me and lacquered it and sent it with his daughter, who gave it to me at the stage door.
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The scene is a staple of Broadway: After a show ends, its most ardent fans gather at the stage door, hoping for an autograph, an Instagrammable photo, or even a conversation with their favorite star.
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"When I used to stage-door, in 1991, it was just me and a homeless person, and the only place I could talk about it online was with whatever bulletin board there was," Mr. Davenport said.
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He and Harvey [Korman] toured for ten years doing this two-man show in theaters all across the country, and he was always surprised that there were standing ovations and crowds around the stage door, entrance and exit.
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NETWorks, a major touring company, eliminated the practice for its shows around the country, while on Broadway, the musical "Hadestown" announced last weekend that for the next 30 days its cast would not appear at the stage door.
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Since that day, everyone involved in the production has had many wonderful experiences to cherish — from the performance when we hosted President Obama and the first lady to the heartfelt stories we hear from theatergoers outside the stage door.
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Ms. Creore moved to New York City in 1937 and lived at the Rehearsal Club, the West 53rd Street boardinghouse for young actresses made famous by the 1936 Broadway play "Stage Door" and its film version the next year.
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The book is a behind-the-stage-door dive into the ephemera of a woman who ritualistically kept virtually everything — every ticket stub, every dry cleaning receipt, every Polaroid from a wardrobe fitting — from her half-century-long career.
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He worked as a model for figure-drawing classes, befriended the conductor Artur Rodzinski (Moondog would stand outside the stage door at Carnegie Hall, waiting for the musicians to arrive), and began attending rehearsals of the New York Philharmonic.
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He famously discouraged female dancers from marriage and from having children; he insisted that their boyfriends leave them at the stage door — not enter the theater — and that dancers wear different perfumes so that he could easily identify them.
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The actor stopped by The Late Show where he shared with host Stephen Colbert that fans of the Oscar-nominated movie have been showing up to the stage door of Straight White Men — the Broadway play he's currently performing in.
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Ms. Maslany crosses the street to meet Mr. Goldwyn, they talk and kiss, and then, following the camera crew, walk down a cleaned-out and re-lit maintenance alley along the side of the theater until entering via a stage door.
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The theater industry had been hoping to avoid mass closings, taking steps to reduce the risk of infection by adding hand sanitizer dispensers, more frequently cleaning seats, barring backstage visits and stage door interactions and even soda refills in used cups.
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Either way, the message to bouncers all over the world is clear: that mild-looking seventy-four-year-old standing outside the stage door might be Paul Simon, in which case he is certainly not as mild as he looks.
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If I manage to gather up the courage to wait at the stage door for Gillian (in my head, she's "Gillian"), I'll be joining the ranks of innumerable other fans at innumerable other productions waiting for the chance to connect with innumerable stars.
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His S.U.V. pulled up outside the stage door at the Beacon, and he hustled from the car through a metal detector—it beeped but went unheeded—and onto a narrow escalator that took him up a few floors, to the green room.
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A given otokoyaku may have a fan club of more than a thousand women, lined up at the stage door in matching scarves on her performance days and, in extreme cases, packing bento boxes for her and chauffeuring her to her acting classes.
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The sight of Mr. Shinners at a Yamaha grand piano behind the plate-glass windows of a former bank branch on 0003th Street and Broadway, within view of the stage door of Carnegie Hall, is drawing a stream of listeners for short doses of Bach.
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Stage management sent me a little note a few days before the show that told me what stage door to arrive at, and said when you read a question, feel free to answer it, and if a word is written in all caps, stress it.
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Two girls who had been standing there since midway through the second act (they came in from Long Island because they'd heard he comes to the stage door on Sundays) cried as they told him they'd seen the show three times and they loved him.
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But when it was adapted into a Broadway musical in 2006, the only riots that occurred were the ones at the stage door, where fans clamored to meet the show's glamorous young cast (including Glee's Lea Michele, Hamilton's Jonathan Groff, and The Newsroom's John Gallagher Jr.).
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It had been a slow trip, more than a half-hour just to get across the Williamsburg Bridge and up to the ABC studios, where a small group of his devoted fans were waiting outside the stage door for him to arrive and administer hugs and selfies.
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Read more: Harry Styles just dropped a sexually-charged music video for his first new single in 2 yearsAccording to Reed, Lambert gave him instructions to meet Styles for the first time following a show at Hammersmith Apollo in November 2017, telling him to come to the stage door.
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"At the end of the day this is so important for the people like my daughters," said Scott Mestan, 49, a restaurant equipment manager from Texas, who scored a stage door photo of his children with Zachary Noah Piser, who played the role of Evan Hansen on Tuesday.
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Western viewers will detect resonances of "Stage Door" and "The Way We Were" in the story, which largely focuses on the disdainful treatment received by the newcomer He Xiaoping (Miao Miao), a girl from a poor background who's been recruited by the heroic, idealistic Liu Feng (Huang Xuan).
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This would ordinarily not demand much comment — and a good thing, since I'm not qualified to provide it — but the lavish black confection that Ms. Fleming wore in the first half seemed downright dangerous, catching on the stage door at her entrance and causing a misstep as she walked on.
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Walking out into the cool night air, pushing past the people crowded near the stage door to catch even a glimpse of the show's cast as they exited, I felt as if I had been sitting on the floor of the ocean and needed to take my time breaking the water's surface, lest my body depressurize.
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But the handful of "Rentheads" who slept by the stage door overnight, seeking cheap tickets to that show two decades ago, have become the 50,000 people who tried to win a digital lottery for $10 "Hamilton" tickets, causing a website crash that forced the show to return to drawing pieces of paper from a pail outside the theater.
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It was just after noon, hours before she would slip into the stage door of the American Airlines Theater and begin the process of becoming Kate Keller, the mother at the spiraling center of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons," a role that has earned Ms. Bening her second Tony nomination — and first for best actress in a play.
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Crossing the street to the BAM opera house while a moody Velvet Underground song plays, Aziz Ansari tentatively pokes his head past the stage door at the start of his new special, "Right Now," then walks in to a roaring crowd and tells a story about a guy confusing him for Hasan Minhaj, another Indian-American comic.
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Early in the opener, a Milwaukeean with "a fairly decent life" is murdered by his "fairly decent wife," and soon the rich are gobbling all the extra fries as the rest of us hoard canned goods; in the one after that, a bemused tale about a stage door clicking shut transmutes into a meditation on the rage of everyone who'll never get a wristband.
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In a promotional video, Mr. Terfel spoke about his excitement at returning to the Met: "I can tell you, hand on heart, when I walk through that stage door for a first day of a new production, I am as excited as a little kid in a candy shop, and yet I am as nervous as I was singing Figaro in 'Le Nozze di Figaro' for the first time at the Metropolitan Opera."
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She still often travels to see friends perform, like the pianist Emanuel Ax and Yo-Yo Ma. (Ma, who was close with Mister Rogers, played cello for him over the phone toward the end of his life, John Rogers said.) Jim Rogers, who lives just outside Pittsburgh, said that his mother attends the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra so often that if she stands by the stage door after the program, the musicians who file out greet her warmly.
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