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what was your first broadway experience?
#75re: what was your first broadway experience?
Posted: 6/2/05 at 12:22amI saw Jelly's Last Jam when I was like 3 or something...I'm 16....The first one I remember seeing was Beauty and The Beast when I was like 5 or 6.
nelliecollins
Understudy Joined: 6/24/05
#76re: what was your first broadway experience?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 1:18pmThe first show I ever saw on Broadway was "Damn Yankees" starring Jerry Lewis. I'm guessing this was circa 1995. I was 13, it was my first trip to New York. (Also saw Cats, Les Miz and Beauty and the Beast on that trip.)
stylinbohemian
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/24/05
#77re: what was your first broadway experience?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 1:22pmFame on 42nd St!
#78re: what was your first broadway experience?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 1:29pmbeauty and the beast- many moons ago. we sat in a box. i never followed up until two years ago.
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#79re: what was your first broadway experience?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 1:33pm
On Broadway? The Lion King with a school trip about a year and a half ago.
But my first actual show was a tour of Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby that I saw when I was 8. Seven years ago, and I still have the program (who knew that as an 8 year old I would have the insight to keep it?)
#80re: what was your first broadway experience?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 1:38pm
First tour or regional production- no frickin idea i was really young.
First boadway show- Thoroughly modern Millie, the date was early august 2003 and it was Harriet Harris' last performance. The show that bit me with the broadway addict bug.(i've seen 14 b'way shows since)
#81re: what was your first broadway experience?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 1:47pmwell i saw Lion King in Toronto when i was 10 and i absolutely loved it!... but my first broadway show in NYC was Throughly Modern Millie with my school
AngelofAvenueB
Understudy Joined: 3/1/05
#82re: what was your first broadway experience?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 1:56pm
my first show (besides local and high school stuff) was the Rent tour january '05, same with stage door
my first broadway show was also Rent in april '05, then two days later i saw wicked, and the day after that i saw Rent again. Stage doored all of them.
forget regret...
#83re: what was your first broadway experience?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 2:14pm
While I've seen many live productions in Chicago, my first genuine New York, Broadway experience was "How to Succeed..." with Matthew Broderick and Megan Mullally.
Still the sentimental favorite; even saw the touring company starring Ralph Macchio. Wow.
#84re: what was your first broadway experience?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 2:57pm
Wow! All of you make me feel really old and I'm not! LOL
My first Broadway show was A CHORUS LINE with Vicki Frederick as Cassie. I've said it before and I'll say it again, she is amazing. I was also fortunate to have seen her in Bob Fosse's DANCIN' as well. Talk about an amzing cast! Whew.
"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds."
~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns
#85re: what was your first broadway experience?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 3:08pmA Raisin in The Sun- about this time last year July 2nd 04
"If I have something to say, the whole world (BroadwayWorld) should hear it." - Thenardier
#86re: what was your first broadway experience?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 3:21pm
Hairspray, 2002, when I was 15
It was the first time I'd ever been to New York too, so it was all a very overwhelming experience.
I remember being somewhat disappointed in the show, though I don't recall why. Harvey was hilarious...
because when it's theatre, nothing else matters
#87re: what was your first broadway experience?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 3:28pm
Although I saw Starlight Express as a kid at the Pantages and Phantom of the Opera at the Ahmanson over 10 years ago, my first Broadway Musical was Rent and my first Broadway play was The Graduate.
Since then I have seen at least 10 other shows, my favorite being Wicked.
"I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tightrope dancer, so that no incompetent would dare step upon it." Goethe
notabb
Broadway Star Joined: 5/12/03
#88MAME with Angela
Posted: 6/29/05 at 3:31pmWhich makes me older than dirt , I guess. The next night I saw CABARET with the original cast .Lotta Lenya was magnifcent.
#89re: what was your first broadway experience?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 3:38pmNoises Off with Patti in 2001. It was just well done and hysterical and I was hooked for life. Ever since then, I try to fly to NY a couple of times a year for theater weekends -- and for the record, I was 27 in 2001, making me just a tad older than 14
"She sang each word, the angels heard ... They closed her mouth and shipped her south. The woman's done."
lizzie1326
Understudy Joined: 12/2/04
#90re: what was your first broadway experience?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 3:45pmMy first Broadway experience was the Kiss Me, Kate revival. I was 10 years old.
#92re: what was your first broadway experience?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 3:53pmThe first Broadway caliber show I ever saw was the touring company of South Pacific with Robert Goulet back in the late 80's. Seeing the tour of Les Miserables in 1994 is what got me hooked (I have had Enjolras77 as my screen name SINCE THEN--we have had AOL for ages). The first show I saw on Broadway was Sunset Boulevard back in 1995. I got to see the entire original cast including Glenn Close. Since then I have been to NYC practically every year and have seen a large percentage of all the musicals that have played on Broadway.
"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man
#93re: what was your first broadway experience?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 4:57pmI saw Les Mis years ago and that was my first show, however the first show that I ever went to because I wanted to was Wicked on Jan. 1 because I didn't want to miss Idina.
"Will the world remember you when you fall?" Les Miserables
#94re: what was your first broadway experience?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 4:59pmTo be honest I don't remember...it's either Sound of Music (which I think it was), Annie, or A Christmas Carol in the 3rd grade.
#95re: what was your first broadway experience?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 5:28pmnelliecollins- Wow, "Damn Yankees" starring Jerry Lewis was also my first Broadway show. I saw it when I was 8.
Dov'`e mia luce, mio cor?
bdwybelle
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/04
#96re: what was your first broadway experience?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 5:38pmVictor/Victoria or Triumph of Love, when I was 6 or 7. I can't remember which one came first.
minimel8817
Understudy Joined: 9/29/04
#97re: what was your first broadway experience?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 6:35pmCats in 1997...i was about 8 years old. o i can't count the shows ive seen since then, maybe like 2 a year...
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