Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?
Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?
C is for Company
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#0Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?
Posted: 1/9/06 at 2:04am
Has anyone put in their birthdate in IBDB to see what shows opened on that date in history? Anybody have any interesting ones?
5/8- A funny thing happened to me on the way to the forum
Basically the only good one for me.
#1re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?
Posted: 1/9/06 at 10:38am
I'm bored so I just checked mine...
Fiddler on the Roof, A Touch of the Poet, On the Town and Sweet Charity are the ones of note.
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Fosse76
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/05
#2re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?
Posted: 1/9/06 at 10:41amMiss Saigon either opened or had its first preview (West End) on my birthday, I don't remember which (I think it was the first preview)
#3re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?
Posted: 1/9/06 at 10:47amPhantom of the Opera
#4re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?
Posted: 1/9/06 at 11:04am5/10 - nothing too notable opened, but Fred Astaire was born that day.
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Avatar: Me with Al Larson, Jonathan Larson's father.
Avatar: Me with Al Larson, Jonathan Larson's father.
#5re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?
Posted: 1/9/06 at 11:16am
4th May - 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and The Look of Love. I am in such illustrious company... 
Updated On: 1/9/06 at 11:16 AM
#6re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?
Posted: 1/9/06 at 11:19am
Me and My Girl...August 10.
On another note, I share a birthday with Antonio Banderas. YUM!
#7re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?
Posted: 1/9/06 at 11:36am7/16- Sweeney Todd
"Will the world remember you when you fall?" Les Miserables
#8re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?
Posted: 1/9/06 at 11:38amThe revival of 1776.
David walked into the valley
With a stone clutched in his hand
He was only a boy
But he knew someone must take a stand
There will always be a valley
Always mountains one must scale
There will always be perilous waters
Which someone must sail
-Into the Fire
Scarlet Pimpernel
#9re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?
Posted: 1/9/06 at 11:43am
liotte! we have the same birthday!!
phantom of the opera
#10re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?
Posted: 1/9/06 at 11:47am
Nothing too interesting.
Mary's Ankle 08/06/1917
The Supporting Cast 08/06/1981
If you ever leave me...I'm going with you! 08/06/2001
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
I remember days
Or at least I try
But as years go by
They're sort of haze
And the bluest ink
Isn't really sky
And at times I think
I would gladly die
For a day of sky
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And Starbucks will use the words 'large' and 'small', not pretentious crap like grande and tall.
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"You could get away with anything if you call it art and tell people who don't like it that it's cutting edge culture." --vmlinnie
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
I remember days
Or at least I try
But as years go by
They're sort of haze
And the bluest ink
Isn't really sky
And at times I think
I would gladly die
For a day of sky
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
And Starbucks will use the words 'large' and 'small', not pretentious crap like grande and tall.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"You could get away with anything if you call it art and tell people who don't like it that it's cutting edge culture." --vmlinnie
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
#11re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?
Posted: 1/9/06 at 12:30pmhow do you check it? in the opening night search? (it's probably really simple and I'm just being stupid, but I really can't find it.)
<--- the set of A Midsummer Night's Dream that I was assistant stage manager for during the 2007 season at the STNJ outdoor stage.
-Dre- You must remember all the same that at the crux of every game is knowing when it's time to leave the table... And it's important to be artful in your exit. No turning back, you must accept the con is done... It was a ball, it was a blast. And it's a shame it couldn't last. But every chapter has to end, you must agree.
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
There's a special kind of people known as show people. We live in a world full of dreams. Sometimes we're not too certain what's false and what's real. But we're seldom in doubt about what we feel.
~Curtains~
It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to, than I have ever known.
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
~Curtains~
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
#12re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?
Posted: 1/9/06 at 12:39pmWow..two great juggernauts in theatre history opened on my birthday 8/9. The first one was Divorce in 1871 and the second was the amazing production of the show Tangerine in 1921.
"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
apdarcey
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/10/04
#13re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?
Posted: 1/9/06 at 12:48pmshenandoah and the recent revival of frankie and johnny...
#14re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?
Posted: 1/9/06 at 1:00pmnothing interesting on mine...
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BroadwayBaby21
Broadway Star Joined: 8/20/04
#15re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?
Posted: 1/9/06 at 1:09pm
4/21/88
Macbeth opened on my actual birthday
and Annie opened in '77, and Inherit the Wind opened in '55
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iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#16re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?
Posted: 1/9/06 at 1:25pm
Only one worth noting:
On 9/28/1961, PURLIE VICTORIOUS opened.
I do share a birthday with Gregory Jbara which totally rocks, though.
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#17re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?
Posted: 1/9/06 at 1:26pmFlower Drum Song and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#18re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?
Posted: 1/9/06 at 1:51pm
March 17th... Everything that opened on my birthday failed...
Is that a precursor?
#19re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?
Posted: 1/9/06 at 1:56pm
ah, figured it out now.
well, nothing interesting opened on my birthday (Feb. 23)
but I do share my birthday with Peter Fonda and Robert Lopez (who is the brother-in-law to one of my friends at college) so, that;s cool.
<--- the set of A Midsummer Night's Dream that I was assistant stage manager for during the 2007 season at the STNJ outdoor stage.
-Dre- You must remember all the same that at the crux of every game is knowing when it's time to leave the table... And it's important to be artful in your exit. No turning back, you must accept the con is done... It was a ball, it was a blast. And it's a shame it couldn't last. But every chapter has to end, you must agree.
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
There's a special kind of people known as show people. We live in a world full of dreams. Sometimes we're not too certain what's false and what's real. But we're seldom in doubt about what we feel.
~Curtains~
It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to, than I have ever known.
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
~Curtains~
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
WhatDoINeedWithLove?
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/11/03
#20re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?
Posted: 1/9/06 at 2:01pm
4/9:
The Social Whirl
Suspect
The Magic and The Loss
The Next President
Kataki
Aaah Oui Genty!
The Ride Down Mt. Morgan
BORING! haha, but I do share my bday with Cynthia Nixon! Granted she was born 19 years earlier!
#21re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?
Posted: 1/9/06 at 2:37pm
A lot of things I've never heard of but...
April 11
Miss Saigon
Company
The King and I
Cool enough!
Updated On: 1/9/06 at 02:37 PM
#22re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?
Posted: 1/9/06 at 2:51pmBaker Street 2/16/65. And the CD comes out on January 31st!!!
ByMySide25
Stand-by Joined: 5/17/04
#23re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?
Posted: 1/9/06 at 2:56pm
September 25th:
PORGY & BESS 1976 Revival
TARTUFFE 1977 Revival
EVITA Original Broadway Production
QUILTERS Original Production
Those are the ones I recognized.
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#24re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?
Posted: 1/9/06 at 3:01pm
12/20 - Dreamgirls. Cool times. 
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