Broadway Performers are Amazing People to Meet, As Long As You're Not a Jerk

True Story: A woman I knew from way back was performing in a Broadway show, not her first but definitely her biggest role. I happen to be in town for a work event so I thought I might surprise her while she stage doored after the performance. 

When she walked out the door, the crowd cheered and she started taking pictures and signing autographs. 

Just before she got to me, a woman started talking to her while she was signing her playbill. 

"Great job tonight!" the woman said. 

"Thank you so much!" the actress replied. 

"I thought your last show was so much better but I had fun tonight too," the woman replied. 

Right then and there you could definitely see looks that spelled out "Umm thanks?" before looking at me with a "Did you just hear that?". 

To be honest, I see this a lot. When Broadway performers are giving with their time, allow fans to get a candid look at their lives through social media, when they come out to stage door and some fan decides to be a jerk. 

Maybe this woman didn't know how her comment sounded when she said it. Maybe she did. Either way to me, the actress and everyone within an earshot, it was an eyebrow-raising moment that was completely unnecessary. 

I can name on one hand the amount of Broadway personalities that feel they belong on the pedestal fans put them on. Because most don't, that's what makes their interactions with their fans so genuine. So it's on the fans to understand and appreciate that(which most do) and not to be jerks.