How many times have you seen some of your favorites?
How many times have you seen some of your favorites?
#1How many times have you seen some of your favorites?
Posted: 12/11/06 at 8:46am
I thought this might be cute since I went to go see The Wedding Singer for the 5th time this past weekend. So, I ask...how many times have you guys seen some of your favorites on broadway/off broadway: Here is my list:
Wedding Singer: 5 times
Rent: 4 times on broadway; 2 tour productions (hershey and washington)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: 3 times
Wicked: 3 times (all with OBC)
Jersey Boys: 2 times
and...I am getting tickets to see Grey Gardens for the second time in about 2 weeks! Can we say ADDICTION!
I made a list of all your faults, it was quite detailed and lengthy too and when I read it through I missed you. Your like a classic Eagles song, you just cant help but sing along even though it sometimes gets annoying too. I just know I want to be wherever I can wake and see you there next to me. **High Fidelity**
Love is what I do **The Wedding Singer**
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#1re: How many times have you seen some of your favorites?
Posted: 12/11/06 at 8:52amFor me, three is my limit. I've seen a bunch of shows three times: Rent, Les Miserables, A Chorus Line (Original), Chicago (Revival), Aida, Drowsy Chaperone, Spelling Bee, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, etc. However, to the best of my recollection I haven't seen anything a fourth time.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
SNLMedia
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/6/05
#2re: How many times have you seen some of your favorites?
Posted: 12/11/06 at 8:58am
Oh boy. I will readily admit to seeing my favorites multiple times. My top three:
Hairspray - 31
Altar Boyz - 29
Spelling Bee - 10
I know there are others on here though that can beat those numbers.
"The world is a better place because of hairspray." - Michael Ball
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#3re: How many times have you seen some of your favorites?
Posted: 12/11/06 at 9:02am
Avenue Q- 6
Hairspray- 4
Forbidden Broadway- 61 (Over 23 years)
Martin Short- 4
Jay Johnson- 5
Drowsy Chaperone- 2
Updated On: 12/11/06 at 09:02 AM
coolphantom919
Broadway Star Joined: 6/6/06
#4re: How many times have you seen some of your favorites?
Posted: 12/11/06 at 9:19am
Wicked: 3
Phantom: 2
Spelling Bee: 2
And I've mostly just tried seeing different shows than the same!
#5re: How many times have you seen some of your favorites?
Posted: 12/11/06 at 9:20amSpelling Bee 10 times huh? I thought that one was a good one too...very cute!! 10 times!! wow! I am impressed here. And is forbidden broadway really that good, have not checked that out at all yet?
I made a list of all your faults, it was quite detailed and lengthy too and when I read it through I missed you. Your like a classic Eagles song, you just cant help but sing along even though it sometimes gets annoying too. I just know I want to be wherever I can wake and see you there next to me. **High Fidelity**
Love is what I do **The Wedding Singer**
Xanadu - Best NEW Musical of the Season!
avab802
Broadway Star Joined: 5/17/06
#6re: How many times have you seen some of your favorites?
Posted: 12/11/06 at 9:26am
RENT - I think I'm on 42, counting Broadway & tours.
Other than that I'm in the single digits.
#7re: How many times have you seen some of your favorites?
Posted: 12/11/06 at 9:29amI've seen Drowsy Chaperone 5 times and I thought that was impressive.
SNLMedia
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/6/05
#8re: How many times have you seen some of your favorites?
Posted: 12/11/06 at 9:39am
RentHead2, I highly recommend Forbidden Broadway. I had heard of it for years but never had the desire to see it. I went on a whim and loved it. It's hilarious! And the show changes every few weeks/months because there is always something new on Broadway to poke fun at.
I need to get back to Drowsy soon. Troy was out the night I saw it. But that lotto is hard to win!
"The world is a better place because of hairspray." - Michael Ball
#9re: How many times have you seen some of your favorites?
Posted: 12/11/06 at 10:13amI have seen LES MIZ 11 (I would have gone more if I could have)times and PHANTOM 13. AIDA 3 times. CHICAGO 9 times.
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES---
"THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
#10re: How many times have you seen some of your favorites?
Posted: 12/11/06 at 10:13amI have seen LES MIZ 11 (I would have gone more if I could have)times and PHANTOM 13. AIDA 3 times. CHICAGO 9 times.
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES---
"THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
#11re: How many times have you seen some of your favorites?
Posted: 12/11/06 at 10:18am
Wicked 9
The Light in the Piazza 7
Sweet Charity (revival) 6
The Pajama Game (revival) 5
#12re: How many times have you seen some of your favorites?
Posted: 12/11/06 at 10:28amWell some of us don't live anywhere close to any proffesional shows/theatres, and some of us can't afford it which is the truth. But I've seen Wicked twice (Chicago and Bway). And that's a record for me.
C is for Company
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#13re: How many times have you seen some of your favorites?
Posted: 12/11/06 at 10:36amI saw Sweeney Todd 7 times, Rent 5 times, and I find this a sad fact to disclose, the Drowsy Chaperone 4 times in 2 weeks.....easy lotto apparently.
#14re: How many times have you seen some of your favorites?
Posted: 12/11/06 at 10:37am
Sweeney Todd-8
Gypsy-6
They are my two favorite shows including Ragtime (which I saw when I was 10) so its fitting that I saw them the most.
Happy...Everything!
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xerotheory7803
Stand-by Joined: 10/16/06
#15re: How many times have you seen some of your favorites?
Posted: 12/11/06 at 10:38am
wedding singer 34 times
evil dead 3 times
everything else ive seen only once
#16re: How many times have you seen some of your favorites?
Posted: 12/11/06 at 10:39amThe only show I've seen more than once so far was Les Mis, which I saw twice.
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COOOOLkid
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/05
#17re: How many times have you seen some of your favorites?
Posted: 12/11/06 at 10:40am
Cats 3 times (all the same recent Troika tour)... Now, if you thought twice was already enough.
Once as a 'concert version'
Another time as a refund ticket
Then, one last time as the part of Broadway/LA season..
"Hey, you! You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!"
-Family Guy
#18re: How many times have you seen some of your favorites?
Posted: 12/11/06 at 10:42am
I saw Sweeney seven times, Aida five. I've seen Rent eight times and the Company revival six, counting the one in Cincinnati.
I refuse to disclose my highest number. Some of you know it, but looking back, it is nothing but embarassing. It's not even all that high compared to many people here -- it just barely reaches the double digits, but the combination of the number and the show just... makes me feel ridiculous.
COOOOLkid
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/05
#19re: How many times have you seen some of your favorites?
Posted: 12/11/06 at 10:46amTell us! =)
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#20re: How many times have you seen some of your favorites?
Posted: 12/11/06 at 10:52amNooo.
avab802
Broadway Star Joined: 5/17/06
#21re: How many times have you seen some of your favorites?
Posted: 12/11/06 at 11:04amCome on emcee, I disclosed my 42 times for RENT.
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#22re: How many times have you seen some of your favorites?
Posted: 12/11/06 at 11:10am
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels-27
Rent-10
Sweeney Todd-9
Wicked-7
Hairspray-6
Phantom-6
Spelling Bee-6
I'll just stop it there. 
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#23re: How many times have you seen some of your favorites?
Posted: 12/11/06 at 11:19am
I have seen most shows only once but ive seen -
Avenue Q - Twice (In the space of 3 days)
We Will Rock You - Twice
Blood Brothers - Twice, soon to be 3 in Feb.
Id give anything to see Rent, hope it can hold on in NY for another 2 years.
#24re: How many times have you seen some of your favorites?
Posted: 12/11/06 at 11:29am
Original Productions:
Urinetown - 10 (2X Fringe, 2X Off B'way, 5 times B'way, 1X Chicago)
On Twentieth Century - 8 (once w/Madeline Kahn, the rest w/Judy Kaye)
Sweeney Todd - 8 (6 X w/Lansbury & Cariou, 2X w/Loudon and Hearn)
The Producers - 5 (Opening Night + 3 more X, 1X L.A.)
A Chorus Line - 5
Ragtime - 4
Titanic - 4
Sunday in the Park With George - 3
Revivals:
My Fair Lady (1976) - 6
Sweeney Todd (2005) - 2
Gypsy ('74, '89, '03) - 6 (1X w/Lansbury, 2X w/Daly, 1X w/Lavin, 2x w/Peters)
Embarrassed to Admit:
Phantom - 3X
Cats - 3x
Aspects of Love - 3X (1X B'way, 2X West End)
Sunset Boulevard - 3X (Patti in London, Betty in New York, Petula in S.F.)
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Updated On: 12/11/06 at 11:29 AM
