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John Barrowman - Borders Signing
May. 2nd, 2007 10:35 pmSo on Saturday I hauled my ass out of bed and headed down to Borders on Oxford Street for the John Barrowman signing. I'm always a little ambivalent about this kind of signing as you end up queuing for hours and get about 20 seconds with the actor in question - it tends to be why I prefer conventions as you can usually have a conversation with the person you've gone there to meet.
I arrived about 10 and met up with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cyberamanda and we basically spent the next two hours queuing upstairs (in the quantum physics section no less! It seemed cruel to be queuing in a bookshop and find yourself stuck in a cramped aisle in front of a firedoor in a section full of books I would need a dictionary to even begin to understand!). We entertained ourselves by chatting to people in the queue (Hi Sylvia!) and getting increasingly entertained at the nervous sounding public announcements from the Borders staff who clearly hadn't expected quite so many people to show up and were a bit bewildered when the queue reached the point that it had to span two floors. They started off with one solitary Borders staff member on the top floor but as soon as they saw the small armies of children, excitable teens and women coming towards them they called for reinforcements until the place was swarming with red shirted Borders staff. At just shy of noon John arrived and got started signing straight away. I had a brief hilarious interchange with the guy in front of me who had been a fan of John for years and was horrified that now he'd done "TV" (the word was spat out with about as much venom as he could muster) there were hundreds of people wanting to meet him wherever he goes. Yeah I'm sure John is really distressed by that too! There does seem to be a degree of snobbery from a minority of John's fans who became fans of his because of his musical theatre career and don't like all the Torchwood/Who fans jumping on the bandwagon.
Anyway finally got up to John - had my picture taken and he signed my CD. I told him I'd bought his Reflections on Broadway cd last week (worked out about £7 in a shop in New York dedicated to Broadway - and worth every penny!) and that I loved it. He was suitably effusive in his thanks and that was it - my 20 seconds over!
Always nice to see him but hopefully he won't be quite as busy at the Eridge Fair. Is anyone planning on going to that by the way? It's on Sunday 24th June. It would be lovely for some of us to meet up and go together.
Anyway all my pictures of John alone were as blurry as hell as it was virtually impossible to catch him when he wasn't posing or signing and my camera kept playing up and shutting itself off but here's my photo with him:
I arrived about 10 and met up with
cyberamanda and we basically spent the next two hours queuing upstairs (in the quantum physics section no less! It seemed cruel to be queuing in a bookshop and find yourself stuck in a cramped aisle in front of a firedoor in a section full of books I would need a dictionary to even begin to understand!). We entertained ourselves by chatting to people in the queue (Hi Sylvia!) and getting increasingly entertained at the nervous sounding public announcements from the Borders staff who clearly hadn't expected quite so many people to show up and were a bit bewildered when the queue reached the point that it had to span two floors. They started off with one solitary Borders staff member on the top floor but as soon as they saw the small armies of children, excitable teens and women coming towards them they called for reinforcements until the place was swarming with red shirted Borders staff. At just shy of noon John arrived and got started signing straight away. I had a brief hilarious interchange with the guy in front of me who had been a fan of John for years and was horrified that now he'd done "TV" (the word was spat out with about as much venom as he could muster) there were hundreds of people wanting to meet him wherever he goes. Yeah I'm sure John is really distressed by that too! There does seem to be a degree of snobbery from a minority of John's fans who became fans of his because of his musical theatre career and don't like all the Torchwood/Who fans jumping on the bandwagon.Anyway finally got up to John - had my picture taken and he signed my CD. I told him I'd bought his Reflections on Broadway cd last week (worked out about £7 in a shop in New York dedicated to Broadway - and worth every penny!) and that I loved it. He was suitably effusive in his thanks and that was it - my 20 seconds over!
Always nice to see him but hopefully he won't be quite as busy at the Eridge Fair. Is anyone planning on going to that by the way? It's on Sunday 24th June. It would be lovely for some of us to meet up and go together.
Anyway all my pictures of John alone were as blurry as hell as it was virtually impossible to catch him when he wasn't posing or signing and my camera kept playing up and shutting itself off but here's my photo with him:
