I'm glad you are over what happened. I think what you said in your last post was a much more mature way of looking at the situation. But you posted a lot of really ridiculous and childish things in your original story, and you can't put that kind of stuff on the internet and expect to receive a bunch of sympathetic posts about how "mistreated" you were. I'm new to the BWW message boards too, but even I can tell that's not how things work here. honestly i am shocked that even one person agreed with you. You have every right to express your opinions, but if our responses have been too "nasty" for you, then I suggest next time you avoid the internet altogether. I'm glad you posted here though, I think you needed that cold splash of reality.
Isn't it BC/EFA collection week now? When I went to see Other desert Cities this past week, cast told audience members they are not signing playbills 'cause they are selling signed playbills for such amount of $ for the charity.
Don't you think that could be one of the reasons he did not sign your playbill?
Obviously not something I'm proud of and I've since corrected the issue but at least I can now claim the experience of recently having had problems arriving to work on time has yielded something positive I can relate to the feeling of being really late.
First of all, it isn't true that signing an autograph is a 2 second thing. It doesn't matter if it's actually a 3 second thing. The perspective of the person NOT running that late doesn't matter.
Trust me...you DO NOT stand in the way of a guy who's running THAT late to ANYTHING. Especially if that includes a couple thousand people who paid good money to see a show that he's in and is likely a highlight of to a good number of those couple thousand.
Not to mention, this is BROADWAY. Serious business. Not that being late is OK in the sticks, but you know what I mean.
In my boring, ordinary little world where being tardy once or twice every couple of months is no biggie, the frequency of it reached a point where--I kid you not--I'd completely flip out at cars ahead of me that weren't in such a hurry. Even when I knew I'd make it on time, but just barely, I'd flip out at anything that got in my way even if only for one second. ONE second.
I don't think the OP realizes just HOW LATE Mr. Martin was and how critical every second is. And this is a business where it isn't unheard of for lead actors to go in half hour before curtain. They've got everything timed down to a science, being even a minute late so that it disrupts such a well oiled machine will cause a bunch of pissed off looks and LOSS.
To me, it isn't at all surprising that he did not take 2 seconds to scribble something. The fact he wasted extra time explaining to the OP and even dealing with her at all, AND giving the little girl a kiss, speaks volumes of just what a gentleman Mr. Martin is and how incredibly entitled and insensitive the pre-show stage doorer was. Pre-show stage dooring itself really rubs me the wrong way...let's surprise and disrupt the actors' pre-show routine to beat the crowds and sneak in an autograph...or two, 15 MINUTES before curtain!!!
This will be the last time that I will respond to a message on here. To Dollypop I am not a fraud, a child or a smelly sock puppet. I am a mother that had a moment and expressed my experience. In my past thread I did state that at least he gave my daughter a kiss and didn't ignore us totally. I have no reason to make something like this up. The only reason why I had said how immature some of the comments were was because I knew they were adults making them. I always believe you can never judge until you are in a situation. Some people will view things differently. Reading the posts I can see there were only a few that could understand a little about what I meant. Thank you!
I know many others have posted but I had to add my two cents. First, I would have never dreamed of asking for autograph that close to curtain. Obvioulsy, he was running real late and has other things to worry about besides signing a Playbill before the show. Second, Broadway performers don't owe fans anything more than a good performance. For the most part, they are extremely generous with their time after the show. I have done the stage door "thing" with my daughters many times and the performers have been very nice and will even pose for pictures most of the time. I can't tell you how impressed I was a few years ago when I saw Angela Lansbury signing programs after the show at her age. If you think Mr. Martin was "rude", try asking a athletefor a autograph after a ball game and I think you will appreciate Mr. Martin more. Third, my wife was friends with Robert Cuccioli (Jekyll & Hyde) when they were in HS. We were lucky to see the show back in 1997 and visit him backstage after the show. Leaving the the show that night with him and another old friend of my wifes that knew him, we left bypassing the stage door entrance. Mr. Cuccioli told us he did feel bad when he did not sign on a few occasions but told us a few "horror" stories of fans who were a bit "nutty". Finally, I can't believe you let this incident "ruin" the performance for you.
You're pretty good. lol. You almost had me there. So much fun to get the tired old hackles raised here a bit from the dusty mothballs. Troll on, McDuff.
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