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First show you saw alone..
Joined: 12/31/69
#75re: First show you saw alone..
Posted: 10/18/08 at 4:55pm
I think the first show I saw by myself was the original production of Into the Woods a couple of months before it closed. I think I was 16, it was a matinee, full house, Ellen Foley was the Witch, Chip Zein was still in the show, I could swear that Paige O'Hara was the baker's wife but according to ibdb.com she was never in the show, (I have long lost my playbill so I have no way of finding out for sure.) and a few other original cast members were still with the show. One of the things I remember is being able to hear birds singing in the auditorium at the Martin Beck before the show started. That was very cool. I remember that the show very good. I think I went to see Black and Blue with my brother that night.
The first show I ever saw on Broadway was My One And Only, original cast, the day before Thanksgiving, 1983. I was 13 years old and shocked at how tiny the St James was compared to our massive, 3,500 seat barn in Dallas.
#76re: First show you saw alone..
Posted: 10/18/08 at 5:14pmFirst show I saw alone was the original Los Angeles production of Phantom at the Ahmanson back in 1992. I was all of 13 years old. It was so exciting.
Recreation of original John Cameron orchestration to "On My Own" by yours truly. Click player below to hear.
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#77re: First show you saw alone..
Posted: 10/18/08 at 5:57pmI think it was the 42nd Street revival when I was 13 or 14.
#78re: First show you saw alone..
Posted: 10/18/08 at 6:16pm
First show? On the Record
First Broadway show? Tarzan
kazacalo
Featured Actor Joined: 5/25/04
donna_darko_23
Broadway Star Joined: 2/25/06
BudFrump23
Broadway Star Joined: 5/20/03
#81re: First show you saw alone..
Posted: 10/18/08 at 7:41pm
I can't really remember - but I think it might have been Hairspray about 3 years ago.
I did go with a friend to see La Cage Aux Folles when it was revived a few years back, but we had separate seats...I think that counts. (She was 2 rows ahead of me - but after intermission, there was an empty seat next to her, so I moved up.)
Now I see them all the time by myself.
(All by myself...oh, Celine!)
I'm as jumpy as a virgin at a prison rodeo!
Updated On: 10/18/08 at 07:41 PM
#83re: First show you saw alone..
Posted: 10/18/08 at 8:51pmBilly Elliot in London. It's the only show i've ever seen alone. Its hard convincing people to go see the same show over and over again.
grnsmwhr
Stand-by Joined: 5/27/04
#84re: First show you saw alone..
Posted: 10/18/08 at 8:54pmCamelot with Robert Goulet
You see, obsessions are very personal things, they come from deep inside us, where we are open and vulnerable, which is why I consider them sacred, not to be belittled....PalJoey
#85re: First show you saw alone..
Posted: 10/18/08 at 9:08pm"The Me Nobody Knows" was my first show alone.
eatlasagna
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#86re: First show you saw alone..
Posted: 10/18/08 at 11:09pm
hey explorer... i was in that show in college! haha.. no one ever knows that show when i bring it up..
the first show i saw alone was waaaay back in 1997... it was the national tour of Beauty and the Beast here in san diego.... i was 18 years old... and then interestingly enough... my first show alone on Broadway was also Beauty and the Beast.. haha... didn't realize that till now... i saw it three years ago... i was 25...
#87re: First show you saw alone..
Posted: 10/18/08 at 11:17pmIn The Heights wendsday after the tony's. I won the lotto =]
Shows Seen This Year: 13, A Chorus Line, Avenue Q, Chicago, Curtains,Gypsy,In The Heights,Legally Blonde,Mamma Mia,Spamalot,Spring Awakening, and The Little Mermaid
Swing Joined: 12/31/69
#88re: First show you saw alone..
Posted: 10/18/08 at 11:20pm
March 19, 2008.
In the Heights.
Krysta Rodriguez was on for Karen Olivo.
twelfth row center, on the end.
I got to meet LMM after. I was shaking and couldn't really speak. so overwhelmed.
In the Heights gave me my passion back.
#89re: First show you saw alone..
Posted: 10/18/08 at 11:27pmI never have, but I will see something alone when I go visit schools in February if my parents dont want to go with me. Probably Spring Awakening or In the Heights
"I told you, NO Rodgers and Hammerstein!"- Bart Simpson
#90re: First show you saw alone..
Posted: 10/18/08 at 11:36pmAvenue Q. It was the first Broadway show I ever saw and I went by myself. Times I've been to shows by myself since: I just counted 64.
kooky
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/05
#91re: First show you saw alone..
Posted: 10/20/08 at 1:23pm
The show was " What Makes Sammy Run? " starring Steve Lawrence in a small
theatre on 54th St. NYC, circa 60's ............
rentheadca
Stand-by Joined: 10/20/08
#92re: First show you saw alone..
Posted: 10/20/08 at 1:26pm
I haven't gone into a theatre alone, but whenever I win lotto my parents usually sit farther back so it's not as loud 
I've only see Hairspray and In The Heights where I was sitting alone, in lotto seats :)
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#93re: First show you saw alone..
Posted: 10/20/08 at 1:37pm
PIPPIN at the Imperial Theatre on W. 45th Street. Late December 1972. I was 7 years old.
Bad habit of wanting to see things repeatedly started about a year earlier with the film WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY. My folks ended-up starting a tradition of dropping me off at the movie theater and then picking me up after the film. Times were different then and management would keep an eye out on me. This tradition permitted me to see hords of films continually, especially since my folks were 'one time only' people.
This tradition floated over after I saw PIPPIN on Broadway, which was the very first show I ever saw on Broadway. As expected, I haggard my folks and that week I got to see the show 2 more times. The rule was as follows: go to your seat; do not go outside during intermission; wait by the box office window after the performance where they would pick me up.
There are countless shows I was able to see repeatedly, courtesy of this tradition which my folks gladly indulged me with. This is how I was able to see the original productions of CHICAGO and A CHORUS LINE about 10 times each the summer of 1975.
Spoiled? You betcha. Did I take it for granted? Not one single moment.
avab802
Broadway Star Joined: 5/17/06
#94re: First show you saw alone..
Posted: 10/20/08 at 2:10pmThe OBC of Ragtime, November 1998. I was visiting NYC with a group of my RENThead friends, and of course all they wanted to do was see RENT over and over. I really wanted to see Ragtime, but no one wanted to go with me, so I bought myself the cheapest ticket I could get. (I was also a poor college student at the time). I was all alone in the very last row of that barn of a theater but I loved every second of that show and was sobbing by the end. That still ranks as one of the best experiences I've ever had in a theater, and I'm so glad I decided to go even though I had to go alone.
#95re: First show you saw alone..
Posted: 10/20/08 at 3:37pm
The first national tours I saw without my parents were "Dancin'" and "The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas." (I can't remember which was first.) Talk about a pair of eye-openers.........
First Broadway show: original "A Chorus Line"
First Off-Broadway show: original "Fantasticks"
These two choices were made so I would have bragging rights in situations like this thread..........
#96re: First show you saw alone..
Posted: 10/20/08 at 5:56pm"Sunday in the Park with George" in London- rushed, got a front row seat, and loved every second of it.
#97re: First show you saw alone..
Posted: 10/20/08 at 6:09pmThe first show I ever saw alone was Grand Hotel....and then the next day I saw Aspects of Love alone... and then again that evening....
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
#98re: First show you saw alone..
Posted: 10/20/08 at 6:14pm
Can we go back a minute to Chuck012's original post that started this thread.........
Are you saying that you were there on one of the most famous nights in Broadway history, the night that Shirley MacLaine was discovered and whisked off to Hollywood? That night? Is that what you are saying???
#99re: First show you saw alone..
Posted: 10/20/08 at 7:54pmChuck...OH MY GOD!!!! Somebody was lucky!
#100re: First show you saw alone..
Posted: 10/20/08 at 8:04pm
The first show I saw alone was CONTACT at the Vivian Beaumont... Followed by LES MISERABLES (Original Broadway run), BOMBAY DREAMS, ALL SHOOK UP, A CHORUS LINE (Revival), and PASSING STRANGE.
By the way BW is such a sweet distraction from school work! haha.
