My experience seeing Network and meeting Tony
I am back home after being stuck in NJ for two extra nights due to snow and I know I have already answered a lot of questions about my experience of seeing Network and meeting Tony, but I still feel like writing about it!
My husband and I saw the play at 3 PM on Sunday. We got to the theater about 2:30 and people were waiting to head inside, but soon after they let everyone in. I had balcony seats and I was not happy that my seats were an obstructed view even though they cost the same as the other balcony seats. If you are off to one side, your view is blocked by the boxes. So we could see the side with the TV studio set but not the side with the restaurant where people eat (and where the sex scene takes place!). There were screens though so I guess they consider it not obstructed when everything is also shown on the screens.
Before the show there were people (I guess actors) doing yoga and such on the stage, and Bryan was getting his hair fixed right there on the back of the stage area. When he finished, it was Tony’s turn! I took pictures of him getting ready and I might have been able to take photos during the show too but I didn’t think it would be right to do that!
After he was ready with makeup he went behind the TV studio set and he was doing a shake out thing with his arms which was cute and I tried to get a picture but it didn’t come out.
The show itself was so so for me. To be honest I’m not sure what Tony’s character’s affair really had to do with the point of the show! Bryan did a good job and the content was meaningful but my husband enjoyed it more than I did. Tony once again plays a man who falls in love with a woman who isn’t his wife. I feel like more often than not that is the role he plays. Tatiana’s character is very focused on network ratings and getting the most out of what is happening with Bryan’s character as she can. Tony’s character is more romantic and just wants her to love him.
Like I mentioned, I couldn’t see the sex scene directly from my seat, but it was shown on the screen as well. Tatiana is talking the whole time about ratings and such which made it kind of funny but it was also acted very much like they were having sex, with groans and grunts and all that.
After the show I had to use the bathroom and by the time we got outside there was a pretty big crowd of people waiting to meet the cast and I was kind of freaking out that I wouldn’t be able to get close. Tatiana came out first of the main stars and she is so cute because she has a bike and she just leaves when she’s done signing and talking to people. Bryan and Tony both had cars. I heard that Tony comes out before Bryan but this time Bryan came out first and that’s why I got to meet Tony! I was not close enough at all otherwise. Bryan was really nice and spent a lot of time with his fans. People left after they got their turn with him and I might have gotten up close to him to but I just watched him interacting with people. After he left the crowd was much smaller. Tony was backstage talking to someone (it was posted later that his visitor was an acting mentor of his) and it was an hour total waiting before he came out. When he came outside he thanked everyone for waiting, which was so sweet!
When it was my turn, I had the picture I took of him and Kerry at Live with Kelly and Ryan and I had it on top of the Playbill for him to sign. He right away commented that he liked the picture and I said I took it and he said “you did?!” The way he said it was so genuine, like he really cared about it, which I really appreciated! I told him I took it at Kelly and Ryan and he was like we did that show together? So I said it was when she brought him out as a surprise to play a game and he said he remembered that. Meanwhile he signed both the picture and the Playbill, which I didn’t expect him to do so I thanked him for that. I was going to ask him for a picture but my husband was already taking pictures and I guess we just faced him for a picture at that point. In the last picture my husband took Tony and I are smiling at each other like we’re friends and I don’t remember touching him but I guess I did!
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