We already have like 3 of these threads. But I will list them anyway as I am bored
In No Particular Order: 13 (x2... unfortunate) Billy Elliot Boeing Boeing Xanadu [Title of Show] (x2) Sunday in the Park with George Rent (x4, 15 in total for all years) West Side Story (In DC, it still counts) Little Mermaid Shrek Jersey Boys (x2) In The Heights (x7) Gypsy (x2) August Osage County (I'm seeing it tomorrow so I am still gonna count it.)
Spring Awakening South Pacific Shrek, The Musical The Little Mermaid
"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." Oscar Wilde "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
1/5- Speech and Debate 3/9 - Next to Normal 5/18 - Spring Awakening 7/2 - Gypsy 7/19 - Spring Awakening 8/13 - In the Heights 11/23- Gypsy 12/29 - In the Heights
And this afternoon I saw August: Osage County. What a way to start the year.
The Drowsy Chaperone (Nat'l Tour- Chicago) Sweeney Todd (Nat'l Tour- Chicago) August: Osage County (B'way) Gypsy (B'way) A Midsummer Night's Dream (local High School) Jekyll and Hyde (the play. Northlight, Skokie IL) Caroline, or Change (Court Theatre, Chicago) Sweeney Todd (Northwestern U) Company (local HS) Grey Gardens (Northlight, Skokie IL)
Pamela's First Musical 62nd Tony Awards Mamma Mia Movie Premiere Broadway on Broadway (camped out 4 hours in advance) Xanadu (Final Show) All About Eve Read through Gypsy Billy Elliot (1st preview) DOUBT movie Premiere Pal Joey The Who's Tommy Reunion Concert
Herbie: "Honey, Don't you know there's a depression?"
Rose: "Of Course I know, I Watch Fox News"
-(modified)Gypsy
Broadway Schedule
December 5th- Hamilton, On Your Feet
December 19th- Noises Off, Edith Piaf Concert at Town Hall
The 25th Annual Putnam Count Spelling Bee Ragtime (White Plains Concert w. Farah Alvin) Sunday in the Park with George Blue Man Group Hairspray Gypsy Hair Equus Broadway on Broadway (Does that even count?)
Updated On: 1/2/09 at 11:24 PM
Billy Elliot South Pacific Spring Awakening Rent Avenue Q A Man of No Importance Equus All My Sons Edges My Fair Lady Jersey Boys Hair In the Heights August: Osage County Boeing-Boeing Gypsy The Fantasticks Altar Boyz Fuerzabruta Blood Brothers Dirty Dancing We Will Rock You My Name is Rachel Corrie 12 Angry Men Frost/Nixon Cabaret The Music Man
BLACK WATCH EQUUS 9 TO 5 (AHMANSON L.A.) THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED (KIRK DOUGLAS L.A.) IN THE HEIGHTS ALL MY SONS (GEFFEN L.A.) GYPSY PAL JOEY (WITH CHRISTIAN HOFF!) BILLY ELLIOT SPEED THE PLOW SOUTH PACIFIC (WITH JEREMY PIVEN!) 13 ROAD SHOW WILLIAM FINN'S INFINITE JOY BLASTED THE COLOR PURPLE (TOUR, L.A.) WICKED (PANTAGES, L.A.) DOG SEES GOD (HUSDON TH, L.A.) MY FAIR LADY (TOUR, AHMANSON, L.A.)
Wicked (3x) Avenue Q Hairspray (3x) Leaglly Blonde (2x) The Gazillion Bubble Show Gypsy (2x) The Little Mermaid Rent (3x) Grease The Tony Awards In The Heights (2x)
Into the Woods (high school) Rent (Broadway) The Lion King (tour) The Foreigner (high school) The Odd Couple: Female Version (high school) Gypsy (Broadway) White Christmas (Broadway) In the Heights (Broadway) West Side Story (Pre-Broadway)
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-Neil Patrick Harris
[title of show] Legally Blonde In the Heights Jersey Boys Young Frankenstein Xanadu Altar Boyz Spamalot (London and on tour) Hairspray (London) Billy Elliot (London) We Will Rock You (London) Wicked (London) Avenue Q (London) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (London) 39 Steps (London)
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 2/26/08 Rock 'N' Roll 2/27/08 Is He Dead? 2/27/08 Sunday In The Park... 2/28/08 Next To Normal 2/29/08 August: Osage County 3/01/08 The Homecoming 3/01/08 Passing Strange 3/02/08 In The Heights 3/02/08 Port Authority 6/17/08 The Little Mermaid 6/18/08 Saved 6/18/08 Gypsy 6/19/08 South Pacific 6/20/08 Boeing-Boeing 6/21/08 The Country Girl 6/21/08 A Catered Affair 6/22/08 All My Sons 11/24/08 The Seagull 11/25/08 Farragut North 11/26/08 Equus 11/26/08 Spring Awakening 11/27/08 Shrek 11/28/08 Pal Joey 11/28/08 Speed-The-Plow 11/29/08 Billy Elliot 11/29/08 13 11/30/08
I'm from Toronto, Canada, and you know something? I would not want to have missed ANY of these shows. There were/are lots of good things in all of them. My advice - Forget the critics and the reviews. Go see what appeals to you, what you are most interested in. You will probably not be disappointed. Of course I saw many other shows up here in Toronto, at the Stratford & Shaw Festivals nearby. I guess I'm a theater junkie, and proud of it.
NEW YORK: Young Frankenstein South Pacific A Catered Affair The Little Mermaid Glory Days Gypsy Almost An Evening Boeing Boeing No, No Nannette A Tale Of Two Cities 13 Road Show Romantic Poetry
SIGNATURE THEATRE, ARLINGTON VA The Happy Time The Visit
LONDON Make Me A Song Jersey Boys Gone With The Wind Marguerite They're Playing Our Song La Cage Aux Folles August, Osage County Piaf A Little Night Music Sunset Boulevard Maria Friedman Re-arranged
CHICHESTER FESTIVAL Funny Girl
EDINBURGH FRINGE The Spitfire Grill Jonah Boy Zanna, Don't Only The Brave Jet Set Go I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change The Last Five Years
Plus amateur shows in various locations in the UK too numerous too mention!
THEATRE 2020: CURTAINS**** LET'S HEAR IT FOR THE GIRLS***** WICKED***** KEITH RAMSAY TAKING NOTES WITH EDWARD SECKERSON***** KAYLEIGH MCKNIGHT CONCERT***** RAGS***** ON MCQUILLAN'S HILL** DEAR EVAN HANSEN***** THE JURY***
My Fair Lady (LA) Droswy Chaperone (LA) Jersey Boys (LA) Spring Awakening Break Out! Equus All My Sons In the Heights Boeing-Boeing Gypsy Altar Boyz Fuerzabruta Lion King Mary Poppins Little Mermaid Shrek 13 Tale of Two Cities Road Show Legally Blonde Xanadu The Seagull What's That Smell? Rock of Ages American Buffalo 39 Steps Speed-the-Plow Slava's Snowshow [tos] To be or not to be
I once heard someone describe her (Ruthie Henshall) singing as sounding as though she's trying to swallow a whole meatball slightly larger than her windpipe. (The same person compared Michael Ball's singing to sounding as though he's sitting on a washing machine on spin cycle and Colm Wilkinson's to a man with a paralyzed lip trying to eat cottage cheese.) --- Schmerg_The_Impaler