Official Hugh Jackman Appreciation Thread.

[ChaoticPsylocke]

awww! i wish i could see this! im going to New York in March. and im sure hugh and daniel will be long gone from this project by then

[danoyse]

Yep, the show ends December 12th. I passed the theater on my way home one night last week and the cancellation line was all the way out the door. :wow:

[ChaoticPsylocke]

huh? what does that mean?

there was a line of people that didnt want to go to the show anymore?

[narrows101]

They're people hoping to GET tickets from someone who has cancelled.

Broadway refunds and cancellations:

http://www.nytix.com/Links/Broadway/Articles/refundsandcancellations.html


Cancellation Tickets
You may be familiar with the term "cancellation or canceled tickets" - they're the Broadway show tickets that you wait in line for (on the day of the show) when you're desperate to get into a sold-out show. You and the other folks who couldn't manage to get tickets in advance stand there biting your nails, hoping something will become available at the last minute. But everybody who has ever purchased a Broadway show ticket also knows that the box office is quick to point out that there are no refunds or exchanges. So what gives? If nobody is allowed to return their Broadway tickets, then where are these fabled cancellation or refund tickets coming from? These refunded tickets are coming from people just like you.

Broadway Ticket Refunds
The truth is that there is some flexibility to the "no ticket refunds or exchanges" rule. Outright ticket refunds are rare (unless the performance itself is canceled or experiences a technical difficulty), but exchanges are not uncommon - so it's a kind of refund, without being a cash refund per se. It's done by calling up Ticketmaster or Telecharge and asking if they will exchange your ticket for another performance due to some unforeseen circumstance that you have. They are most likely to comply when the Broadway show in question is very popular, because then they are relatively secure that they will be able to re-sell your ticket on short notice. The Broadway show itself would rather not process ticket refunds, but they realize that they must be reasonable, otherwise they face a wave of unpopular opinion.

[danoyse]

Also if the premium seats (which run about $250 and up) haven't sold close to curtain time, the box office will usually drop them down to regular price and sell them to whoever is on the cancellation line.

[danoyse]

I had a Hugh-sighting on my way home from work tonight! I saw him 45th St on his way to the theater. :woot:

He was getting mobbed by a small crowd outside the theater - not nearly as bad as the madness that goes on there after the show, and he had stopped to sign a few autographs.

I was just a few feet away, so I hung around to see (enjoying the view - he is even better looking that close up!), when suddenly this guy behind me yelled "WOLVERINE!!!" at the top of his lungs, and Hugh looked right at me for about 2 seconds when he was searching the crowd for the guy. :wow:

I waved. I hadn't even taken my headphones off, I wasn't expecting to run into all that on my way home tonight! But I did get this extremely blurry picture on my phone:

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e8/JenM512/HJ1.jpg

I love working in NYC. :woot:

[Kelly]

Very cool....

[narrows101]

Nice shot!!! It amazes me that he only seems to get mobbed by the stage door and not when he's walking on the street like a "regular person" LOL.

Here's my lame attempt at a photo from across the street after I saw the show last week - people and traffic kept getting in my way of trying to get a good shot!

Look for the back of the head of the tall man in the fedora in front of the blonde woman - that's him! I tried to get a photo when he was facing the other way but taxi cabs got in the way and by the time they left I couldn't get a good shot. That's his car parked in front that he eventually got into. And BTW, believe it or not, that blonde woman leaned so far over that barricade she knocked it over and fell into the street!

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/A%20Steady%20Rain/MyStageDoorPhoto.jpg

[danoyse]

I have an equally riveting photo of Hugh's hand from the day I saw the show - also from across the street, I wanted no part of that barricade madness. :oldrazz:

Tonight it was before the show, there were only maybe 20 people out there so they didn't even have the barricades up.

I already have his autograph from when he was in Boy From Oz (my folks had gotten it for me when they saw the show), and I hadn't planned on seeing all that tonight. But I'll take it! That 2 seconds of eye contact made my year. :oldrazz:

[VenomVsSpidey]

I had a Hugh-sighting on my way home from work tonight! I saw him 45th St on his way to the theater. :woot:

He was getting mobbed by a small crowd outside the theater - not nearly as bad as the madness that goes on there after the show, and he had stopped to sign a few autographs.

I was just a few feet away, so I hung around to see (enjoying the view - he is even better looking that close up!), when suddenly this guy behind me yelled "WOLVERINE!!!" at the top of his lungs, and Hugh looked right at me for about 2 seconds when he was searching the crowd for the guy. :wow:

I waved. I hadn't even taken my headphones off, I wasn't expecting to run into all that on my way home tonight! But I did get this extremely blurry picture on my phone:

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e8/JenM512/HJ1.jpg

I love working in NYC. :woot:

:awesome: X 10000000000000

[squeekness]

Nice shot!!! It amazes me that he only seems to get mobbed by the stage door and not when he's walking on the street like a "regular person" LOL.

Here's my lame attempt at a photo from across the street after I saw the show last week - people and traffic kept getting in my way of trying to get a good shot!

Look for the back of the head of the tall man in the fedora in front of the blonde woman - that's him! I tried to get a photo when he was facing the other way but taxi cabs got in the way and by the time they left I couldn't get a good shot. That's his car parked in front that he eventually got into. And BTW, believe it or not, that blonde woman leaned so far over that barricade she knocked it over and fell into the street!

That's too funny. :p

[danoyse]

That's too funny. That stage door is madness - watching them trying to get to their cars looked like a scene out of A Hard Day's Night.

So I hear Hugh and Daniel Craig are auctioning off their undershirts after the show now to raise money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS? I love Broadway fundraising time! :woot:

[squeekness]

I admire Hugh and all that, but he can keep his undies. :p

[danoyse]

Eh, it's for a good cause. They auctioned off Daniel Radcliffe's jeans when he was in Equus on Broadway last year. :wow:

They auctioned Hugh's t-shirt when I saw BFO. He'd worn the t-shirt when he danced with a woman in the audience, and the guy doing the auction showed it to her and said "Look, your claw marks are on it." :funny:

The bidding was so high between two people in the audience (over $3000!!) that they got a 2nd shirt (Hugh said "That's OK, I don't need to wear a shirt tomorrow night") and they sold both shirts for $3000 each. :wow:

[narrows101]

Yep, the show ends December 12th. I passed the theater on my way home one night last week and the cancellation line was all the way out the door. :wow:

Just a correction that the show ends December 6. And apparently they auctioned off two more shirts this afternoon for $5,500 each and photos with them for $2,000. Hugh acts as the auctioneer. They are going to get a boatload of money for this charity.

Here's some flickr.com photos from the stage door:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/livingroomcomedy/

[Bim]

I had a Hugh-sighting on my way home from work tonight! I saw him 45th St on his way to the theater. :woot:

He was getting mobbed by a small crowd outside the theater - not nearly as bad as the madness that goes on there after the show, and he had stopped to sign a few autographs.

I was just a few feet away, so I hung around to see (enjoying the view - he is even better looking that close up!), when suddenly this guy behind me yelled "WOLVERINE!!!" at the top of his lungs, and Hugh looked right at me for about 2 seconds when he was searching the crowd for the guy. :wow:

I waved. I hadn't even taken my headphones off, I wasn't expecting to run into all that on my way home tonight! But I did get this extremely blurry picture on my phone:

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e8/JenM512/HJ1.jpg

I love working in NYC. :woot:
We love that u work in NYC too :oldrazz: thanks!

[danoyse]

One of my dad's friends just saw A Steady Rain and braved the stage door crowd - and they got much better pictures than me and narrows did:

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e8/JenM512/steadyrain22.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e8/JenM512/steadyrain52.jpg


Cool! Had fun watching Australia on HBO tonight until the World Series rain delay was over too. :up:

[narrows101]

Oh nice ones!!! Stupid buses, traffic and people getting in front of me when I took mine from across the street!!!

And check out these photos of people mobbing Hugh BEFORE the show.

http://www.accidentalsexiness.com/2009/10/31/hugh-jackman-gets-mobbed/

[danoyse]

LOL! He's too cute. :oldrazz:

That's what it was like when I saw him last week, they just swarmed him. :wow:

[narrows101]

Yesterday was Halloween - there was a Twitter report that there were three guys dressed as Wolverine sitting in the front row at the show! I wonder if that was distracting, and I'm sure the "serious" theater-goers loved that one!

[danoyse]

I just read about that! That's crazy. And I thought it was bad when some guy yelled "WOLVERINE!!!!" when he was outside the theater last week.

At least one of them could have dressed up as James Bond, seeing as how it was Halloween. :oldrazz:

[Bim]

This is so wrong :hehe:

Hugh goes down under! (and they dont mean Australia) http://perezhilton.com/2009-11-03-hugh-goes-down-under

[Bad Supe's Girl]

ha ha... wouldn't have been as bad if he had decided to "adjust" without his hand IN his pants.

[danoyse]

Yikes!! :wow:

File that under 'things not to do when you're constantly followed by paparazzi'. :funny:

[squeekness]

This is so wrong :hehe:

Hugh goes down under! (and they dont mean Australia) http://perezhilton.com/2009-11-03-hugh-goes-down-underD'oh! Nothing inconspicuous about that! :p

[Kelly]

Sometimes ya gotta wrinkle out the crinkle....

[squeekness]

Context is everything. It could also be that he was simply tucking his shirt in. :p

[danoyse]

Context is everything. It could also be that he was simply tucking his shirt in. :p

I would certainly hope that's all it was. :wow: :oldrazz:

[danoyse]

LOL, apparently at last night's performance of A Steady Rain, just before they started the BC/EFA auction after the curtain calls, Hugh asked if anyone in the audience who'd been "dragged to the theater against their will" wanted to know the World Series score.

Then he told everyone who didn't want to know to cover their eyes, and held up a sign with the score, too much cheering. :woot:

I saw Rent during the Superbowl a few years ago and two stagehands walked across the stage at intermission with the score on a cardboard sign.

[danoyse]

So it looks like a lot of people really wanted Hugh and Daniel's undershirts - they've raised over $1 million so far - it's a Broadway fundraising record!

http://www.playbill.com/playblog/?p=2853

007 and Wolverine Give Shirts Off Their Backs, Raise More Than $1 Million for BC/EFA

A steady rain of heavy coins has been following A Steady Rain at the Schoenfeld for a month now, and on Nov. 19 Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman made history in their fund-raising for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS when their show became the first to reach $1 million all by itself — $1,029,833, to be precise.

Jackman came closest to that figure when he raised $612,000 during his Boy From Oz run. “There have been several shows that have come close to that — Rent, Hairspray, The Producers,” said a jubilant Tom Viola, BC/EFA’s executive director. “Basically, when a show — it’s usually a musical — raises $250,000, that’s a tremendous success. The fact that Hugh and Daniel, in the fourth of six weeks of fund-raising, have raised a million dollars is incredible and really speaks to their extraordinary generosity and great good will.”


Among the items being hustled are posters for $300 and Playbills for $60 — both signed — that you can only get at the theatre. “They’re gracious enough to say, ‘Since we’re selling these here, we will not be signing autographs at the stage door,’ because they don’t want somebody to buy a Playbill for $60 and then have somebody else put a Playbill in front of them for nothing.” Also, Craig and Jackson will pose with members of the audience for photos backstage for $2,000 a piece.



But the piece de resistance is a variation on the sweat towels that Jackman peddle during The Boy From Oz: He and Craig literally sell the sleeveless t-shirts right off their backs that they wear under their shirts during the performance — “wife-beaters,” they’re called, after Stanley Kowalski. “They start the bidding at $1,000, saying each will sign their own t-shirt, and the winner will get both. What they have done literally at every performance is sell the t-shirt twice so if the final bid is, say, $4,500, they will ask the underbidder if he will match that, they will both sign each T-shirt. And then Broadway Cares gets twice the donation. They’ve gone for anywhere from $3,500 to, literally one night, $15,000 twice!”

Stars have been sweating for your money since Dec. 16, 1939. The day after “Gone With the Wind” world-premiere in Atlanta, a woman plopped down a pretty penny at the front desk of the Georgian Terrace Hotel for the room just vacated by Clark Gable. Her only stipulation was that the sheets not be changed.

— Harry Haun


I just found out I'm seeing the show for the 2nd time this weekend - I can't wait to see how the auction goes. :woot:

[squeekness]

Wow, good for them. :up: It's all for a good cause.

[danoyse]

I saw the matinee of A Steady Rain today and they did have the BC/EFA auction after the show - they got $7500 for each shirt. It was crazy!

I bought the Playbill signed by Hugh and Daniel after the show:

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e8/JenM512/asrplybl.jpg

I already had Hugh's autograph from The Boy From Oz, but I didn't have Daniel's, and it's for a good cause and my dad helped me get it. It's pretty cool! :woot: