every two weeks usually. This month I am attending an Actor's Fund performance of Sweeney Todd and the Broadway Festival and next month I'm seeing Encore's Kismet besides other broadway shows.
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
I am going to one right now....I am in my schools original Murder Mystery.
"I never had theatre producers run after me. Some people want to make more Broadway shows out of movies. But Elliot and I aren't going to do Batman: The Musical." - Julie Taymor 1999
Usually only once or twice a year. However, last year was exceptional because I went to New York for the first time. Twice. So I went to the theatre 18 times, saw 13 different shows, and most of those were packed into the space of 3 weeks.
I envy you guys so much! I wish I could go to them that often!! I live no where near a theatre!! The closest is Toronto and that's like a full days drive! I only saw two "professional" musicals. One in Toronto and one in NY. I saw a bunch from like community theatre and school plays and whatnot.
Over a year, it would tend to average out to one show a week ish - I see around 50 things per year. However in the course of the year, I might for example only see one thing in the entire of March and one in the entire of May...but then 20 things in September. lol. It all evens out But if I haven't seen anything for three weeks, I tend to call that AGES and get antsy.
This year is 2 weeks old. I've seen two shows already. However both were last week in the space of three days *g*
Usually once every three months. I've seen the following shows last year:
THE LION KING PHANTOM (SECOND TIME) LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA THE PILLOWMAN DOUBT SWEET CHARITY THE WOMAN IN WHITE SOUVENIR
Makes a total of seven shows if you don't count Phantom, which I don't...
I might go see RENT on Monday for MLK day, I'll hopefully see Sweeney Todd soon, and we're planning on seeing SPAMALOT in June for my sister's birthday.
MARGARET: "Clara, stop that. That's illegal." - The Light in the Piazza
"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel
Once a month. Once in a while, twice. Two years ago, I did three shows in a month. That was awesome. I am seeing Doubt Saturday.
"Life is not measured by the number
of breaths we take, but by moments
that take our breath away."
"Life isn't about how to survive the storm,
but how to dance in the rain."
Until a year ago, only about every 6 months, but now that I've moved back into New York, about three or four times a month (depends on funds). Mostly off-Broadway, again because of funds, or lack thereof.
Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. -Nocturne
As often as I can, but it's not nearly enough. It's usually every few months or so, unfortunately. I saw "Beauty and the Beast" last week. Updated On: 1/14/06 at 12:25 AM
Argggg. I wish I lived in NYC. I live in the Midwest, so I see or am a part of about 6 shows a year through my college and I prolly see 2 community theatre shows a year and 4 professional shows a year. So, like, one a month.
Living in Switzerland at least I try to go when my favorite actress Mary Stuart Masterson is doing something somewhere on stage. More or less it worked so far.
Saw her in:
"Nine - The Musical" in April and December 2003 on Broadway (I just had to see her with both casts)
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" in June 2004 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC
"National Anthems" in March 2005 in London
"Commentaire d'Amour" (staged reading) in November 2005 at the Florence Gould Hall in NYC
Everytime I also plan to visit two or three other plays/musicals. So I can say about once or twice a year I am doing a so-called "theatre trip" to NYC, London or wherever.....
it depends. During the summer when i am home, once a week (if i win lotto or student rush). However at school in boston less often. I am picky about the shows i choose to see, like i am not going to spend money on the les mis tour coming.
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
Wow...you're all so lucky! I will probably never make it to New York, and it's hard to get somebody to drive me 3 hours to Atlanta (I don't like driving in big cities; I'm a nervous wreck, pun intended), so I'll have to be content with 5-6 shows a year, whatever stops at the theatre near me. When I see Wicked in May, that will make a total of 2 major tours I've seen. Ooooo.....
"I never had theatre producers run after me. Some people want to make more Broadway shows out of movies. But Elliot and I aren't going to do Batman: The Musical." - Julie Taymor 1999