How are you not dead? If I saw either Angela or Ben I would die. My poor heart couldn't handle both in one day.
It helps that I had met Angela before when I stagedoored. She and Julian were two of the first people to come out after the July 5th show in Boston, and I left shortly after because I was mortified after a comment my mother made to Jacob regarding the illness he had just recovered from (disclaimer: I am a childhood friend of Jacob, which makes it all the more mortifying that my mother didn’t even say hello and just launched in with the “so did you SHIT YOURSELF?”). She didn’t remember me when I saw her today but she was super sweet and so happy I loved her performance as Medda. I was so jazzed to meet her that I did a little dance and promptly had a terrible back spasm.
As for Ben, he was on his phone the whole time and so I didn’t get to talk to him. He was great in Newsies but I’m not one of those “Ben fangirls” (at least with Ben Cook, Fankhauser is another story and as someone who saw Beautiful but didn’t get to stagedoor for very long, I would shit myself and die if I got to meet Fank) so I wasn’t like on the ground dying.
Those actually weren’t the only two actors I saw today. I also saw Gerard Canonico from Spring Awakening heading into Dear Evan Hansen rehearsals (and he was smoking, bad Gerard!), Andrew Chappelle, Christian Borle and the spacey looking girl from OITNB (the one that was boning the guard, I don’t watch the show).
If I meet Fank, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jonathan Groff or if I see Jacob again, THEN I’ll probably die of shock…