Close encounters of the actor kind

Mike and I saw Sweeney Todd at the Signature tonight--it was fantastic. But that's not the story here. After the show, we were walking back to my car and ran into a guy who looked very familiar to me. "Hey," I thought, "it's the guy who played Sweeney [Edward Gero]!" Now, logic would say that this would be pretty impressive, because the play had ended fairly recently. But then, I've also seen some actors get changed and get out very quickly, so it didn't raise too much of a flag. So after making eye contact, I approached and said how much we enjoyed the show. He was like, "Oh, were you in the audience?" and I said that yes, we were, and what a great show, etc. Then he made a comment about it being a true story and I realized what had happened.

He wasn't Edward Gero. He was Andrew Long, who was in I Am My Own Wife, also at the Signature.

Fortunately, I immediately realized this, and said that whoops, I was mistaken, but I had seen him in My Fair Lady, which I just loved. Then I went on to compliment that performance in more detail, and somehow managed to keep my babbling to a minimum.

He, happily, was very, very nice and didn't seem to think I was a complete idiot. Of course, he is a professional actor--and a good one. So that doesn't really mean anything. I did feel like an idiot, though. (Mike says that I didn't come across too insanely, but I was completely flustered.)

Anyway, on a somewhat unrelated note, I'm Facebook friends with one of the actors in Sweeney. I met him on a tour of the Les Mis set at the Signature back in 2008, and we haven't had any contact since then...but I kind of want to write him a note, like, "Hey, awesome job!" But that seems weird. I'm Facebook friends with another local theater actor, and I struggle with that with him, too. It was particularly odd that when I logged on to Facebook just now, the Sweeney actor was also listed as active. I guess I know what he does after the show.