As Brenda sent in her feedback for Episode 167…she too has met several celebrities despite not going to conventions. She’s lucky enough to meet them at the theatre!
I really enjoyed the Gallifrey One reports, and your discussions about the current situation with photos and autographs at conventions brought to mind my own celebrity encounters. I’ve never attended a con, but I do frequently wait at stage doors after seeing Broadway and other theater shows, so I’ve had some fun encounters there. I saw Brent Spiner in Big River around 1985 and about 10-15 years later I saw him as John Adams in 1776. Both were singing roles, and he is really quite good on the stage. I met many of the cast of Next Gen when they came to Atlanta in the play Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, but I was so star-struck I forgot to use my camera. That play featured Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Gates McFadden, Brent Spiner and Colm Meaney. I’ve also met Hugh Jackman, Chris Noth, Charles Durning, Rue McClanahan, Leslie Jordan, Marilu Henner, Michael Learned, Jonathan Pryce and lots of others who are known in the theater world though not so much on screen. I met George Takei when he came to Columbia, SC (where I was living at the time) shortly after the first Star Trek movie came out. But my favorite encounters are the several times that I met Ewan McGregor, first when he was filming Big Fish in Alabama, later at a charity event in London, and again when he performed Guys and Dolls in the West End. There is a very long story there, but I’ll save it for another time when I’m not running into a deadline as you start to record this week’s show. I attached some of these photos for your enjoyment.
She also included her Whomobile Dashboard for part-time job with Lyft. You can see all of them below!
