Broadway Closing Performances -- Which Ones Have You Attended?
Broadway Closing Performances -- Which Ones Have You Attended?
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#0Broadway Closing Performances -- Which Ones Have You Attended?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 8:47pm
My most memorable was A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC.
Yours?
#1re: Broadway Closing Performances -- Which Ones Have You Attended?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 8:49pm
None yet.
But I know with out a doubt - the day Chicago closes (which I hope isn't for a while) I will be there!
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#2re: Broadway Closing Performances -- Which Ones Have You Attended?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 8:49pmDracula...Wildhorn was in the audience, but that was it
#3re: Broadway Closing Performances -- Which Ones Have You Attended?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 8:52pm
I was at AIDA's. I almost didn't go - I hadn't really planned on it at all, until somebody (
) offered me a second ticket she had, telling me she knew I'd regret it if I wasn't there. I wouldn't have had it any other way - I needed to be there, and it was the perfect way, if I had to at all, to say goodbye to my favorite show. The show that day had the most energy I'd ever seen in it. I cried so much. The audience was full of alumni and devoted fans, and it got the sendoff it deserved. The perfect culmination of at lot of memories.
#4re: Broadway Closing Performances -- Which Ones Have You Attended?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 8:53pmLittle Women...I will post my review later tonight.
jczelyph
Broadway Star Joined: 10/21/04
#5re: Broadway Closing Performances -- Which Ones Have You Attended?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 8:55pm
Posted this in the Little Women Closing thread but this thread seems more apt.
*****
I have a question: are shows generally hard to get tix for for the night they close? I do love a bit of emotion and I really want to go to the last performance of a show (does that make me weird?).
"Jane, I've been dealt a blow - I've been dealt a blow, Jane."
#6re: Broadway Closing Performances -- Which Ones Have You Attended?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 8:56pmtaboo!
TheGaIsSilent
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/25/04
#7re: Broadway Closing Performances -- Which Ones Have You Attended?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 8:58pm
Gypsy w/Bernadette Peters
JOHN LITHGOW
I just realized, your last name is Butz! Both "Norbert" AND "Butz" are in your name! You must have gotten picked on a lot as a child!
#8re: Broadway Closing Performances -- Which Ones Have You Attended?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 8:58pm
In the closing night of SEUSSICAL, "All For You" STOPPED the show.
Earlier, Cathy Rigby holds an auction for Horton the Elephant. She said her normal line "Congratulations, the Elephant goes to the bald headed man with the greasy mustache." She followed it with "Oh - I'm terribly sorry Mrs. Weissler!!"
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
BJC899
Broadway Star Joined: 7/20/04
#9re: Broadway Closing Performances -- Which Ones Have You Attended?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 9:00pmOff-Broadway but, Fame on 42nd Street. So sad that everyone was crying at the end...
Bway_Mill_Fan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/24/03
#10re: Broadway Closing Performances -- Which Ones Have You Attended?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 9:12pm
without a trace-hurry! please! 
as of now La Boheme. wanted to do Little Women and Millie but i had graduation which i had to go to
Amneris
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#11re: Broadway Closing Performances -- Which Ones Have You Attended?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 9:18pmyou're a good man charlie brown...omg so sad. EVERYONE was crying. Anthony was crying during the end of "Happiness" when Ilana patted him on the shoulder to say her last line.. it was heartbreaking.. then after that, Saturday Night Fever which was wild and then Urban Cowboy which was also very wild.
MTRBOI24
Broadway Star Joined: 12/11/04
#12re: Broadway Closing Performances -- Which Ones Have You Attended?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 9:20pmNot Broadway but I was at the closing of the equity tours of Fame; and Miss Saigon (which John Hill was in, and saw him play Chris that closing week).
moljul
Broadway Star Joined: 5/28/03
#13re: Broadway Closing Performances -- Which Ones Have You Attended?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 9:22pm
Bernadette and Tom Wopat's last show in Annie Get Your Gun
Closing of Gypsy with Bernadette
Closing of Bells Are Ringing with Faith Prince and I think one more that I can't think of right now.
All closing shows are absolutely amazing to attend.
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#14re: Broadway Closing Performances -- Which Ones Have You Attended?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 9:23pm
GYPSY w/ B. Peters
CAROLINE, OR CHANGE
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
Jezebel
Featured Actor Joined: 5/5/05
#15re: Broadway Closing Performances -- Which Ones Have You Attended?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 9:31pmI was at the last performance of Thoroughly Modern Millie, which was only three quarters full and didn't really seem to be anything special.
Sluggy
Featured Actor Joined: 7/15/04
#16re: Broadway Closing Performances -- Which Ones Have You Attended?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 9:38pm
Wonderful Town. Half the audience didn't even know it was the closing, but the energy in the theatre was - well, wonderful!
The cast seemed so supportive of one another, and many were visibly moved as the show approached the final scene. Big respect for Brooke Shields for making sure that Linda Mugleston got the respect she deserves! I know that next time I really love a show, I'll definitely want to be there when it closes!
"Which way do you want these pleats turned?"
"Toward Mecca."
#17re: Broadway Closing Performances -- Which Ones Have You Attended?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 9:44pm
i just saw "Little Women" close today...
what a great experience!
#18re: Broadway Closing Performances -- Which Ones Have You Attended?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 10:08pmkiss me kate, which i don't remember
"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
MusicalDirector109
Leading Actor Joined: 5/16/03
#19re: Broadway Closing Performances -- Which Ones Have You Attended?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 10:20pm
"Gypsy" with Bernadette Peters
"Into the Woods" - Revival
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#20re: Broadway Closing Performances -- Which Ones Have You Attended?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 10:41pmYAGMCB - it was an amazing experience...
"Not a day goes by..."
#21re: Broadway Closing Performances -- Which Ones Have You Attended?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 11:14pm
dracula
i sat in the front row, it was one of the best days of my life... i met wildhorn and everything.
#22re: Broadway Closing Performances -- Which Ones Have You Attended?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 11:16pmLittle Women today, it was awesome!
#23re: Broadway Closing Performances -- Which Ones Have You Attended?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 11:17pmLaChiusa's Wild Party. A show that should have lasted much longer...
#24re: Broadway Closing Performances -- Which Ones Have You Attended?
Posted: 5/22/05 at 11:19pmthe revival of oklahoma @ the gershwin!
awkward.
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