First show you saw alone..- Page 2

[DRSLOL776]

Posted: 6/11/08 at 2:40pm

Gypsy with Bernadette Peters.

She was excellent, but I did not like the show.

[theatrespaz]

Posted: 6/11/08 at 2:43pm

I very rarely go alone to the theatre, so my first experience alone was very recent. I was at the APAP conference in NY and decided to see Come Back, Little Sheba by myself. I rushed and got 3rd row center.

[BillyE]

Posted: 6/11/08 at 2:50pm

Thoroughly Modern Millie
It was my 4th of 7 times seeing that show. Wish I could have been there more.

[LifeofTheParty2]

Posted: 6/11/08 at 2:50pm

I had a summer of a LOT of theatre alone...I can't remember if the first was Wicked or Altar Boyz....probably Altar Boyz. And that was funny because I asked the women next to me if I could switch and sit on the aisle (sprained knee), and ended up getting pulled onstage for "Something About You" and everyone then assumed I was a part of the show since I was there alone.

Edited because I seriously cannot spell Updated On: 6/11/08 at 02:50 PM

[AudrasBoi]

Posted: 6/11/08 at 2:53pm

Wow this question really hurts my brain. lol. I would have to guess that my first time going it alone at a show would be The Life. My mother was supposed to go with me but, she ended up going to see something else with my dad. I remeber getting a really crappy seat in the rear but as I waited for the show to begin me and others up in the heavens were asked to move down. I ended up 8th row center on the isle. I had a blast, and sometimes going it alone can really be great.

[gumbo2]

Posted: 6/11/08 at 2:57pm

I go alone a lot...I'm usually in the city by myself for breaks during school and such. It's hard to remember but I think maybe Light in the Piazza might have been one of the first. For me it's actually an exciting rarity when someone sees a Broadway show with me.

[suicidalmickeymouse]

Posted: 6/11/08 at 3:08pm

In The Heights on April 5th of this year.

I made the mistake of taking my two best friends on my trip NYC for my birthday, they went to Phantom instead of In The Heights because Phantom was waaaaay better cause they liked the movie and it was the best thing on Broadway right now. And when we went to RENT later on, one fell asleep, the other was constantly commenting how ugly the set and costumes were, and that none of them could sing and they all were ugly. And also she said the songs were terrible. So I now love going alone, there is nobody to ruin my experience expect for my myself. Sorry for the rant.

Updated On: 6/11/08 at 03:08 PM

[Marianne2]

Posted: 6/11/08 at 3:09pm

Spamalot

My next one will be 'In the Heights.'

[Rigazzi2]

Posted: 6/11/08 at 3:30pm

My first show on Broadway that I caught by myself was SWEENEY TODD, I think... either that or DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS. I think it was SWEENEY, though...

I did, however, see the touring production of Miss Saigon by myself nearly ten years ago in San Francisco...

[Pippin]

Posted: 6/11/08 at 3:35pm

the first was "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife"

the second was "Young Frankenstein".

[DrMark]

Posted: 6/11/08 at 3:45pm

"Cabaret" at Studio 54. It was also the first show I saw on Broadway (but not my first Broadway show). It was a magical experience. I was absolutely blown away.

[Theatreboy49]

Posted: 6/11/08 at 3:50pm

First time I went to NY I saw two shows with my dad (Q and DRS) and then saw Lestat and Sweeney myself.

[Ed_Mottershead]

Posted: 6/11/08 at 3:52pm

My family took me to NYC on a regular basis since the mid-50's. By 1960 or thereabouts, they'd let me see a show on my own (I THINK it was a mystery called Write Me a Murder with Kim Hunter); part of my 16th birthday present was permission to go to NYC alone, on which date I saw Tchin-Tchin (with Anthony Quinn and Margaret Leighton). As a result, it never bothered me to go by myself, and, truth to tell, I prefer it that way to this date. The social part comes after.

[fnyboi88]

Posted: 6/11/08 at 4:02pm

Beauty and the Beast

[misschung]

Posted: 6/11/08 at 4:08pm

I just answered on the twin thread, oops.

Mine was the Company revival as well - apropos and ironic.

Lavieboheme, I see movies alone, just not often. But that has more to do with the fact that there are fewer and fewer movies that I'm willing to pay $10+ to see in the theater.

[The Boy From Ohio]

Posted: 6/11/08 at 4:12pm

When I was 16-17 I would see most shows by myself, no one to go with, or they didn't want to pay, etc. Now I get 2 tix and take someone with me (preferably someone cute). I can't remember the first one...

Updated On: 6/11/08 at 04:12 PM

[Weez]

Posted: 6/11/08 at 4:29pm

'Sunday In The Park With George'.

I see the vast majority of things on my own. I go to way too many shows to manage to get company to all of them, and organising more people than just myself is a pain in the backside. I've got six shows coming this month, and I'm only seeing one of them with another person. ^_^

[Hiram]

Posted: 6/11/08 at 4:43pm

I was sixteen. I saw the great, late Cliff Gorman in LENNY.

[saulssweetie]

Posted: 6/11/08 at 4:47pm

I'm about to see Hamlet alone. ;_;

[Weez]

Posted: 6/11/08 at 5:24pm

Saulssweetie, please know that if they had invented trans-Atlantic instant teleportation, I would SO come with you.

[StarUsher]

Posted: 6/11/08 at 5:24pm

I go by myself all the time now too. I thought I was crazy for preferring it that way. The first time was Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. No one else I knew had the money or wanted to see it so I went myself. I did end up going with someone to the closing performance of Company and I almost wish I hadn't. I think I would have been able to appreciate it more if I didn't have my friend going on and on about the creep she was seeing, before the show, during intermission and after.

[luceecool]

Posted: 6/11/08 at 5:34pm

The Viewing Room (play), Marguerite (musical), I've been going alone increasingly more this year as I review shows for our Uni paper and most press offices will only give us one ticket as we're a lowly (20000 demographic!) student newspaper

[ExceedinglyPeculiar2]

Posted: 6/11/08 at 5:38pm

tobiasragg-I agree, and nobody to add commentary DURING the performance.

[gonepishing]

Posted: 6/11/08 at 6:30pm

A local production of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." If you mean a professional show, I've never seen one by myself.

[SgtDonut]

Posted: 6/11/08 at 6:35pm

Never. My family doesn't trust me in Downtown Chicago/The Whole Manhattan Island. I would sneak in to so many shows in New York or who knows what in Chicago!