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What it was your first experience in Broadway?
What musical?
How old were you?
Did you like it?
Updated On: 1/19/08 at 06:18 PM
The first musical I ever saw was Annie when I was 6, but the first musical I actually saw on Broadway was the Les Miz revival. I was...probably older than you. I liked some of it.
A Chorus Line (the original run...but not original cast!)
I was 16 ~ a junior in high school.
I was enchanted.
Two days later we saw Starlight Express (less enchanted) and Les Miserables (again, original run I think some original cast...along with Gary Morris as Valjean. Back to enchanted). Then a couple of days after that, we saw The Fantastiks (again, enchanted).
The first Broadway show I saw was either RENT or Beauty & the Beast when I was in high school. I saw them very close to each other so I cant recall exactly which was first.
Five years later, I saw my first show ON Broadway - Legally Blonde this past summer.
The first show I ever saw on Broadway was Phantom of the Opera, but I saw Miss Saigon about a month or so later. I was 14.
My first musical on Broadway was Promises, Promises when I was about 10. Lorna Luft was the female lead, and she was fantastic. I've been hooked on Broadway ever since!
Annie Get Your Gun with Bernadette Peters
Avenue Q..2 months ago..21 years old, and I am still 21 years old.
I'm still not over it.
luvcaroline, that's amazing..I kinda have a feeling that my life would be so much different if I saw my first show when I was 10 (or younger). Are they bringing Promises, Promises back anytime soon?
I can't seem to recall the first musical I ever so (ever in life), but I can definitely recall my first B'way musical: 1776 at the Gershwin (was it?) in '97. I was 10, and I sat like, first or second row while the rest of my elementary school sat mid-to-rear orchestra. I can't remember *LOVING IT* at the time, but I can distinctly recall the curtain call, and how amped I was by having Thomas Jefferson and John Adams smiling down on me then. Nowadays, I adore the show to no end. -)
NYcurious: I would love for a revival to happen. It's an amazing score, and it's truly a shame that Bacharach never wrote another show. "Knowing When to Leave" is still one of my all time favorite songs from a musical.
Understudy Joined: 9/23/07
I saw Beauty and the Beast when I was 7. I loved it!
WICKED when I was 12.
ufffffff, I LOVE it¡¡¡¡
I think is one of the best musicals in the history.
All, the scenography, the songs, the story, the characters.....all
Thanks, Menken, thanks.
I love Broadway thanks to Beauty and the beast
Updated On: 1/19/08 at 06:33 PM
Les Mis was the first show I ever saw - on tour
RENT was the first one on Broadway for me and I was 17. Loved it!
My first Broadway musical: The Lion King in San Francisco
My first Broadway musical on Broadway: The Light in the Piazza
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/04
My first show I saw was Mamma Mia, I just turned 15 the day before.
1980, Peter Pan on Broadway (with Sandy Duncan). I was in second grade, and I've been hooked on theatre ever since.
The Wiz on Broadway with the original cast.
My first Broadway musical was the Chicago revival.. I was 19. I know I'd seen productions of musicals earlier but nothing on Broadway.
first musical and broadway musical that i saw was Crazy For You.
I was 6 and the show was incredible! I gave them a standing ovation (and I had no idea what that was at the time)
Still one of my favorite shows (if not my number 1)
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/1/08
First touring Broadway show: Les Miserables at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago. Haaaaaated every single second of it. At intermission I turned to my family and said "I have no idea what is going on." I sat through the show with my playbill open to the songs page, counting down the number of songs left til the torture ended.
I went to see the show again with a high school group, and it was great--I think I was old enough to appreciate it. And now it is one of my all-time favorite shows.
My first Broadway show in New York is of course THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA on December 16 1998. Front row. Wow what a night. And rules must have changed since then about pictures because I asked an usher to take a picture of me in front of the stage and she did. hmmmmmmm.
ohhhhhh, I missed Phantom when it came to Spain, I was so sad...
Perhaps I will go Broadway to see it, I love the movie (2004) and the score,
My first musical was The Lion King in LA.
My first Broadway show was Rent in 2003. I was fifteen and I loved it!
First musical was Jane Eyre at my HS. Magical.
First musical on Broadway was Mary Poppins. Ehh.
First musical on Broadway I really liked was Grey Gardens. So beautiful.
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