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Post by alece10 on Apr 8, 2020 6:06:37 GMT
I came up with this idea during the night. Anyone else having awful problems sleeping?
The idea is every couple of days I give 2 name of famous people, one of which will be theatre related, and you have to say if you have met them and the circumstances.
I have a feeling board members will have some very interesting stories to tell.
Please stick to the names only.
So to start with I give you:
The Queen
Benedict Cumberbatch
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Post by adrianics on Apr 8, 2020 9:29:28 GMT
I haven't met Bunnysniff Cucumberpatch, but I do amdram with someone who studied Drama with him at Manchester.
Can't say I'm the biggest fan of him as an actor but by all accounts he's a very genuine, affable bloke.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Apr 8, 2020 9:40:33 GMT
An acquaintance has a friend who went to drama school with Benadryl Cattleprod, and he managed to get his autograph for her and she has it framed in her kitchen at home 😅
I've heard mixed reports about his temprement at stage doors, etc. I did see a video of these fans bothering him at the Nash tho. He had a sore throat and just wanted to go home and was firm but polite, but they just stood round filming him and I'm like... just l e a v e h i m a l o n e
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Post by talkingheads on Apr 8, 2020 10:12:58 GMT
I've met a few people who have met The Queen, does that count?
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Post by crowblack on Apr 8, 2020 10:22:20 GMT
I've heard mixed reports about his temprement at stage doors, etc. I did see a video of these fans bothering him at the Nash tho. He had a sore throat and just wanted to go home and was firm but polite, but they just stood round filming him and I'm like... just l e a v e h i m a l o n e I haven't met him but I don't think you can blame him for this - he doesn't strike me as an actor who has deliberately courted fandom/stardom (e.g. no social media profile, as far as I'm aware), but rather had it thrust upon him c/o Sherlock, a series that was itself a form of deluxe fanfic and played completely into the arms of that sort of fandom. And now the Marvel stuff. It seemed to get a bit like a quieter stage version of the Beatles, who stopped playing live (or so it was said) because they couldn't be heard above the screams. |
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Post by alece10 on Apr 8, 2020 10:37:29 GMT
I've met a few people who have met The Queen, does that count? No. |
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Post by Forrest on Apr 8, 2020 10:39:09 GMT
I've never met Benedict Cumberbatch, but an acquaintance has: she bumped into him on the Millenium bridge. He told her to please be quiet about it, not to alert others, and if she can name 2 films he was in he would keep her company for a while. She did (obviously!) and he walked with her to the National. How adorable is that?! He does strike me as a lovely, clever guy - that has only kind of added to that idea.
Admittedly, I struggle to understand the whole hype of 'celebrity fandom' (for people over 16): I mean, there are people out there who I think are amazing, and would *love* to have a chat with them about the work that they do, but the idea of jumping at them, recording them on my phone while doing ordinary things or anything similar is just... beyond me. I am conflicted on the stage door tradition too. There is a guy who has an instagram account I came across by accident (well, by the power of #hashtags) who goes to see shows and takes photos with everyone he can, and my question is always - why? I mean, if it is a performance or a performer of particular importance for you, fine, I get it. But be nice, polite, respectable, and not a 'selfie hunter' trying to squeeze them into the same frame as yourself. Actors are people, not 'commodities' to be hunted down - some of them are shy or just want to be left to do their job, and some revel in the attention, both approaches are fine - and sometimes I feel many people treat them as such (and think that a ticket for the play also grants them 'access' to the person). But I'm a bit off topic, aren't I, sorry!
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Post by Mark on Apr 8, 2020 10:41:57 GMT
Saw the Queen drive past once in her car!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2020 10:56:26 GMT
I've met a few people who have met The Queen, does that count? No. I paid to visit her house last summer, that's the closest I've come! |
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Post by alece10 on Apr 8, 2020 11:22:36 GMT
I've never met Mr Cumberbatch but I have met The Queen.
In 2011 i was privileged to be invited to one of the garden parties at Buckingham Palace for services given to The Olympic Games. It was a total honour and an amazing day.
We also had lunch at The Ritz before and Liza Minnelli at the RAH after still dressed in a morning suit. I got some very strange looks for being totally overdressed.
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Post by FrontrowverPaul on Apr 8, 2020 11:55:08 GMT
How about expanding the "Have You Met ..." idea to include any famous person living or dead but only in unexpected or unusual circumstances , like the Liza Minelli example, ie not just sitting next to someone well-known in a theatre or seeing them in a shop or on a train?
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Post by intoanewlife on Apr 8, 2020 15:24:14 GMT
I've seen them both on the telly, does that count?
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Apr 8, 2020 15:31:09 GMT
I've never met Benedict Cumberbatch, but an acquaintance has: she bumped into him on the Millenium bridge. He told her to please be quiet about it, not to alert others, and if she can name 2 films he was in he would keep her company for a while. She did (obviously!) and he walked with her to the National. How adorable is that?! He does strike me as a lovely, clever guy - that has only kind of added to that idea. Admittedly, I struggle to understand the whole hype of 'celebrity fandom' (for people over 16): I mean, there are people out there who I think are amazing, and would  to have a chat with them about the work that they do, but the idea of jumping at them, recording them on my phone while doing ordinary things or anything similar is just... beyond me. I am conflicted on the stage door tradition too. There is a guy who has an instagram account I came across by accident (well, by the power of #hashtags) who goes to see shows and takes photos with everyone he can, and my question is always - why? I mean, if it is a performance or a performer of particular importance for you, fine, I get it. But be nice, polite, respectable, and not a 'selfie hunter' trying to squeeze them into the same frame as yourself. Actors are people, not 'commodities' to be hunted down - some of them are shy or just want to be left to do their job, and some revel in the attention, both approaches are fine - and sometimes I feel many people treat them as such (and think that a ticket for the play also grants them 'access' to the person). But I'm a bit off topic, aren't I, sorry! You might enjoy this thread! theatreboard.co.uk/thread/1561/stage-door-dramas?page=50 |
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Post by sfsusan on Apr 8, 2020 16:03:16 GMT
I've heard mixed reports about his temprement at stage doors, etc. I saw him at the Barbican in Hamlet a couple of years ago, and had read that he wasn't doing the stage door 'thing'. So as I walked past the throngs, I felt very smug that I wasn't wasting my time hoping for a glimpse. I was just too far away to go back when I heard the sound of a hundred fans screaming, so apparently he had changed his policy. I do get annoyed when directors have to make a change to the play in order to keep fans from disrupting it... if I remember correctly, that Hamlet started with the soliloquy, so the applause on first seeing BC didn't throw off anyone else. And True West with Kit Harrington started with him on stage in character, giving the audience a chance to get a good eyeful and depriving them of the chance to greet his entrance with screams and hoots. As for the Queen, I saw her at Royal Ascot, got a pretty good photo of her in the Royal Box, and won 10 pounds betting what color hat she'd wear. (And won more money when I bet on a California/hometown jockey to win... and he did!) |
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Post by londonpostie on Apr 8, 2020 16:11:15 GMT
I bumped into The Queen on the Millennium Bridge once and she offered to walk with me to Borough Market if I didn't let on it was her. She still owes me a fiver for the Scotch egg.
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Post by Forrest on Apr 8, 2020 16:47:36 GMT
I bumped into The Queen on the Millennium Bridge once and she offered to walk with me to Borough Market if I didn't let on it was her. She still owes me a fiver for the Scotch egg. I know you are trying to be cynical in response to my post above, but this is - admittedly - gold, and has made me laugh aloud! :) (I don't know her well, she is just an acquaintance, and she may have been lying, but I see no point in coming up with a lie like that.) |
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Post by londonpostie on Apr 8, 2020 16:58:18 GMT
No, not cynical at ali! I'm glad it made you laugh  |
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Apr 8, 2020 18:47:23 GMT
I bumped into The Queen on the Millennium Bridge once and she offered to walk with me to Borough Market if I didn't let on it was her. She still owes me a fiver for the Scotch egg. He he Doesn't carry change does she |
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Post by n1david on Apr 8, 2020 19:04:03 GMT
A long time ago I was at a show in the West End and I was checking my phone in the bar at an interval, and Benedict Cumberbatch (who was in the audience) asked me if I knew the Man U score. Oddly enough, a week later I was at a Scissor Sisters concert at Brixton Academy and (before the show started) Rory Kinnear asked me if I knew the score of some Wimbledon tennis match. For a few months I kept looking for other up and coming actors and having the BBC Sport website bookmarked on my phone.
Online research suggests this would have been June 2010, and by some deduction I think the play might have been Enron at the Noel Coward, but I cannot be certain.
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Post by olliebean on Apr 8, 2020 22:33:17 GMT
I've met a few queens, but never the Queen.
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Post by amp09 on Apr 9, 2020 0:24:28 GMT
I sang a solo for the Queen at Hillsborough Castle in Belfast over 10 years ago with my school, and met her afterwards. She appeared to be very robotic and blank behind the eyes. I felt very sorry for her. It was still a magical experience.
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Post by alece10 on Apr 10, 2020 7:41:44 GMT
Morning
Todays famous people are Ant and/or Dec and Imelda Staunton.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Apr 10, 2020 8:17:44 GMT
Morning Todays famous people are Ant and/or Dec and Imelda Staunton. Best lockdown game on the internet this |
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Post by anthony40 on Apr 10, 2020 8:37:51 GMT
I have met Imelda on several occasion and she has stopped and spoken to me in the street. one was just after her run in Follies. Imelda and her husband Jim Carter live just up the road from me in West Hampstead..
I once saw them both shopping in the local M&S and low and behold found them then scanning their item in the set-check out opposite me!
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Apr 10, 2020 8:56:54 GMT
I sang a solo for the Queen at Hillsborough Castle in Belfast over 10 years ago with my school, and met her afterwards. She appeared to be very robotic and blank behind the eyes. I felt very sorry for her. It was still a magical experience. I’m listening to Elton Johns autobiography at the mo and he recounts that the royal family are very different in private. One of his anecdotes about the Queen and Viscount Linley was astonishing! |
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to have a chat with them about the work that they do, but the idea of jumping at them, recording them on my phone while doing ordinary things or anything similar is just... beyond me. I am conflicted on the stage door tradition too. There is a guy who has an instagram account I came across by accident (well, by the power of #hashtags) who goes to see shows and takes photos with everyone he can, and my question is always - why? I mean, if it is a performance or a performer of particular importance for you, fine, I get it. But be nice, polite, respectable, and not a 'selfie hunter' trying to squeeze them into the same frame as yourself. Actors are people, not 'commodities' to be hunted down - some of them are shy or just want to be left to do their job, and some revel in the attention, both approaches are fine - and sometimes I feel many people treat them as such (and think that a ticket for the play also grants them 'access' to the person). But I'm a bit off topic, aren't I, sorry!
