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What Was Your First Exposure to Professional Theater?
laactress
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/7/04
#25re: What Was Your First Exposure to Professional Theater?
Posted: 11/11/04 at 12:39pm42nd Street when I was 20 months old!
It started with a sipmle idea, collecting one paper clip for every life lost, the feelings that connect us...are greater than those that divide us!
Stagedoor2
Leading Actor Joined: 8/1/04
#26re: What Was Your First Exposure to Professional Theater?
Posted: 11/11/04 at 1:01pm
I grew up in a college town and there was children's theater that I remember going to. My parents also took us into Chicago for lots of shows -- "Annie", "A Chorus Line", "The Music Man" with Tony Randall, etc. It always makes me laugh that I couldn't see "Grease" in the movie theater because of the language and sexual suggestiveness, but my parents had no qualms about taking me to see "A Chorus Line". It's theater, so it's okay...
My first official New York Broadway experience was , I'm sad to say, "Cats". I remeber thinking, huh -- I don't get it?
#27re: What Was Your First Exposure to Professional Theater?
Posted: 11/11/04 at 9:07pm
first b-way show: Beauty and the Beast... many a moon ago.
i didn't become hooked until about two years ago, though
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
CurtainUp2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/8/04
#28re: What Was Your First Exposure to Professional Theater?
Posted: 11/11/04 at 9:15pmMy Junior High School history class went to see "1776", and I've been hooked ever since.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
- Nelson Mandela
Mythus
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
#29re: What Was Your First Exposure to Professional Theater?
Posted: 11/11/04 at 9:52pmMy first Broadway show (and my first real theatre experience that I can remember) was CATS. I don't remember much about it. I remember staring at the bathtub hanging in the upper left corner and wondering if it had any significance. It didn't. I also remember that someone proposed to someone else onstage during intermission. Oh! And when the boat came out of the wall. That was cool.
#30re: What Was Your First Exposure to Professional Theater?
Posted: 11/11/04 at 10:08pmIs it werid that I don't have a specific first memory of theatre? I honestly don't remember the first time I saw a show, it just seems like i've ALWAYS been a theatre-geek! =)But the first show I actually saw in NYC was RENT 3 years ago.
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broadwaystar2b
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
#31re: What Was Your First Exposure to Professional Theater?
Posted: 11/11/04 at 10:10pm
Cats on Broadway when I was 7 
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