The Ongoing Wicked Discussion Thread

There were loads stage dooring after Taboo last week, and there were no notices to say people couldn't

I was surprised seeing pictures of people at stagedoor and pictures of performers posing with their masks pulled down. But if they tested positive yesterday, as much as stagedooring on Tuesday evening will have been a very silly thing to do, they probably caught it before Tuesday evening and gave it to each other during rehearsals or dress run or something.

So there was 200 plus people at SD on Tuesday ?! I don’t know what Security can do about it. Apart from get the Cast to leave via a different exit ?

I haven't been to Wicked stage door in a looooooooong time, but don't they usually have barriers up, so cast can choose to walk down the line or otherwise they sneak out at the top? Doesn't stop fans from running after them anyway, but that is usually what used to happen, back in the OG and second cast of Wicked days. LOL

No idea, but both were off last night.

Sorry Jacob but No, It is not okay. You have been asked nicely not to do it, yet feel entitled to do so because it is the stagiest night of the year. It isn’t ‘we don’t want to do it because we want to get home’. It isn’t ‘I’m sorry we need to eat, there isn’t time’. At its darkest it is ‘I’m sorry, I want to stay alive’. It’s bad enough them picking up bugs at the stage door scrum. It can’t be wholly blamed but it can be wholly controlled.

Of course they could in theory, and the theatre should be accommodating that, but they might not be.

Regardless, that doesn't excuse the idiocy of anyone who tries to stage door in the current climate. Only they can control whether they go to the stage door or not, the cast can't control that. It is the so-called "fans" (whose lack of consideration for the cast frankly makes them anything but fans in my book) who are unnecessarily increasing the risk to the cast for no good reason.

And if you still think turning up to stage doors is OK despite being told not to do it then I'm afraid you need to grow up and appreciate the severity of the situation and that you and the others who stage door are the problem. You need to realise this is about the health of the cast and you are putting that at risk for your own selfish desires, which is not OK.

“In all fairness, they could leave a different way and also have security say something.I’ve been at shows where the SDM has come out to say “please leave” despite a few of us being there
Not aiming to start the debate again, but in all fairness SD shouldn’t solely be blamed for anyone getting COVID, right? Commute, families etc”

I have no idea if you were or weren’t. But supporting the very notion is out of order.

Thinking I got this wrong, Wicked LDN is a year or two younger than me—

Wonder if Lucie and Helen are on tonight

Neither are on tonight, judging by some tweets I’ve seen .

I guess I’d be another of the young fangirl generation having only just turned 18 😂. My peak Wicked phase was from like 14 to 15 I’d say but I’ve had a resurgence recently.