Audra McDonald is looking out an overeager fan who adopted her residence after a Broadway efficiency.
The Gilded Age actress, 55, detailed the scary encounter in a “PSA” Instagram video on Saturday, August 16. She mentioned the incident happened the evening earlier than after she left New York Metropolis's Majestic Theatre following her efficiency as Mama Rose in Gypsy.
McDonald mentioned that the theatergoer “snuck round and located me the way in which I'd exited from the theater and adopted me all the way in which to the place I used to be staying, got here into the constructing and was uncomfortably shut. After which once I lastly bought some safety to assist me, their response was, ‘Effectively, hey, I've come all the way in which …' and so they wished an autograph and felt that they deserved an autograph.”
“That's crossing an enormous previous boundary. I simply wish to name that out. That's an enormous no-no. That's now messing with me security. It's not proper,” the Tony winner added.
McDonald mentioned that whereas she generally greets followers on the stage door, she has chosen to not for her run in Gypsy with the intention to “preserve vitality” to have the ability to “get by the following present and the following present and the following present.”
“Actors, as a lot as we'd like to greet each one in every of you after a present, generally we're simply exhausted and it's exhausting. There's one million causes,” the actress defined.
She continued, “There's numerous causes performers don't do the stage door. There are reveals that I've achieved it and reveals that I've not achieved it. Among the causes are: they're exhausted, some folks get nervousness about doing stage door, some persons are in a rush to catch trains to allow them to get residence, some folks keep away from the stage door for well being causes.”
McDonald concluded her video by asking followers to respect actors' boundaries and privateness after theater performances.
“Whenever you see an actor go away the stage door, in the event that they don't cease, go away them alone. There's a cause that they're not stopping, and it has nothing to do with you,” she mentioned. “It's them defending their house and peace. In the event that they do cease and wave, take an image with you, or signal an autograph, nice. However please respect the right boundaries.”
McDonald concluded her acclaimed run in Gypsy on Sunday, August 17. The present opened in December 2024 and had greater than 260 performances.
