What Was Your First Exposure to Professional Theater?

Mine was when my Mother took me to see Ethel Merman in a revival of ANNIE GET YOUR GUN.

Merm, the score, Bruce Yarnell [what a hunk!]--it all seemed so MAGICAL!


I knew right then and there I was destined to be a member of a Theater Message Board someday.


What was YOUR first exposure to Professional Theater?

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Peter Pan, I believe.

Professional - a dinner theatre production of Man of La Mancha (did absolutely nothing for me).

First Broadway show - Annie, January 15, 1978.

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I was first exposed in Hair. But then the audience kept screaming......." PUT YOUR CLOTHES BACK ON!"

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I had a very generous Great Aunt who took me to the theatre from the time I was about five. The first night at the theatre that I can recall in any detail was actually G&S. 'HMS Pinafore'

I believe that everyone on stage was fully clothed that night!

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Original Broadway production of OLIVER - 1964. I was 4 years old.

Dinner at Sardi's and A CHORUS LINE at the Shubert....Magical!

The first time I went to our local theater (which I now work at)

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Guys & Dolls on Broadway when I was really young.

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cats... and yes, on broadway.

Professional...a regional production of Pirates of Penzance

Broadway... Beauty and the Beast in August 1995

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professional theater - A Winter's Tale at ACT in San Francisco

musical - a touring production of The Music Man with Dick van Dyke at the Golden Gate theater in San Francisco

Broadway - Beauty and the Beast in May 1994

my own credits???
Mr. Paravicini in The Mousetrap - October 1979
Tony Brockhurst in The Boyfriend - May 1980
Valere in Tartuffe - October 1980 (cancelled due to death of director)

Updated On: 11/11/04 at 09:16 AM

First local theatre production: Fiddler (I don't even know how old I was, but I remember seeing several local productions of Fiddler w/ my mom and grandmother. My grandmother used to be the house mother in a boarding house for young women who were going to college in NH, and one of the women that lived there was playing Fruma Sarah in one of the productions we saw. She scared the CRAP out of me when I saw her still in her costume and make-up after the show!

My first touring show was Cats in Lowell, Mass. I must have been 6 or so, and I remember being really pissed that we were in the balcony at the beginning when all the cats were running up and down the aisles! Funny, I don't remember anything else about the show...hmmm...

And my first Broadway show was Les Miz when I was 13. That was what really hooked me. After that first trip we started coming to NY to see Broadway shows more often then we'd go to Boston to see touring shows (even though that was only an hour away from good ole Beantown).

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