When you were born...

[joeyjoe]

When you were born...#0

Posted: 8/27/04 at 9:33am

do you know what shows were on Broadway that year?

Anyone Can Whistle
The Athenian Touch
Bajour
Ben Franklin in Paris
Cindy
Divorce Me, Darling
Fade Out, Fade In
Fiddler on the Roof
Foxy
Funny Girl
Golden Boy
Harold Rome's Gallery
Hello, Dolly!
High Spirits
I Had a Ball
Instant Marriage
Jericho-Jim Crow
Maggie May
Our Man Crichton
Robert and Elizabeth
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
To Broadway with Love
Tom Jones
What Makes Sammy Run?

[popcultureboy]

re: When you were born...#1

Posted: 8/27/04 at 9:43am

No, I don't know. And how would I find out?

Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.

[LadyGuenevere]

re: When you were born...#2

Posted: 8/27/04 at 10:04am

The 1987-1988 season (I was born in 87)

1. Happy Birthday, Mr. Abbott! or Night of 100 Years
2. Broadway
3. Dreamgirls
4. The Student Prince
5. Sweeney Todd
6. Sherlock's Last Case
7. The Desert Song
8. Roza
9. Italy on Stage
10. Mort Sahl on Broadway!
11. Burn This
12. Late Nite Comic
13. Anything Goes!
14. Cabaret
15. Don't Get God Started
16. Into the Woods
17. Teddy & Alice
18. Breaking the Code
19. Penn & Teller
20. Sally (in concert)
21. The Phantom of the Opera
22. Sarafina!
23. Serious Money
24. The Music Man
25. A Walk in the Woods
26. A Streetcar Named Desire
27. M. Butterfly
28. The Gospel at Colonus
29. Joe Turner's Come and Gone
30. Oba Oba
31. Mail
32. Michael Feinstein in Concert
33. Macbeth
34. Chess
35. Romance/Romance
36. The World According to Me
37. Speed-the-Plow Royale Theatre
38. Carrie

Man, good stuff. I wish that I was born earlier so I could have witnessed that season and seen a couple of shows.

[Unknown User]

re: When you were born...#3

Posted: 8/27/04 at 10:04am

popcultureboy - just enter a year in the search engine of ibdb.com

[amasis]

re: When you were born...#4

Posted: 8/27/04 at 10:05am

Just a selection...

Grease
Man of La Mancha
Pippin
Much Ado About Nothing
Lysistrata
Mourning Becomes Electra
Don Juan
Medea
A Little Night Music
Cyrano
Nash at Nine

[Broadwayboobs]

re: When you were born...#5

Posted: 8/27/04 at 10:26am

Vintage '60
The World of Carl Sandburg
The Hostage
Les Ballets Africains
Farewell, Farewell Eugene
Irma La Douce
A Taste of Honey
Becket
An Evening With Mike Nichols and Elaine
Laughs and Other Events
The Wall
Tenderloin
Face of a Hero
The 49th Cousin
Invitation to a March
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
The Rape of the Belt
Period of Adjustment
Under the Yum-Yum Tree
Advise and Consent
All the Way Home
Little Moon of Alban
Camelot
Send Me No Flowers
Love and Libel
Critic's Choice
Wildcat
Do Re Mi

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson

[POLisPOL]

re: When you were born...#6

Posted: 8/27/04 at 10:28am

The year I was born... opened A CHORUS LINE ! YAY!

Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!

[popcultureboy]

re: When you were born...#7

Posted: 8/27/04 at 10:36am

SHOWS OPENING DURING THE 1975-1976 SEASON
Chicago
The First Breeze of Summer
Death of a Salesman
A Chorus Line
Truckload
The Skin of Our Teeth
Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Count Basie
Ah, Wilderness!
The Robber Bridegroom
Trelawny of the "Wells"
Lamppost Reunion
The Leaf People
Edward II
Treemonisha
Me and Bessie
Yentl
Summer Brave
The Time of Your Life
Travesties
Kennedy's Children
Three Sisters
Hello, Dolly!
A Musical Jubilee
Fonteyn & Nureyev on Broadway
Boccaccio
Habeas Corpus
The Norman Conquests: Living Together
The Norman Conquests: Round and Round the Garden
The Norman Conquests: Table Manners
Hamlet
The Glass Menagerie
Very Good Eddie
Angel Street
Murder Among Friends
Sweet Bird of Youth
The Royal Family
Awakening
Home Sweet Homer
The Poison Tree
Push Comes to Shove
Pacific Overtures
A Memory of Two Mondays / 27 Wagons Full of Cotton
They Knew What They Wanted
Paul Anka
A Matter of Gravity
Rockabye Hamlet
Mrs. Warren's Profession
Knock Knock
Me Jack, You Jill
Dance Theatre of Harlem
Bubbling Brown Sugar
Geraldine Fitzgerald in Songs of the Street
Zalmen or The Madness of God
The Lady from the Sea
My Fair Lady
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Secret Service
Boy Meets Girl
Shirley MacLaine
The Heiress
Streamers
Rex
So Long, 174th Street
The Belle of Amherst
Threepenny Opera
George Abbott...A Celebration
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
The Mikado
Des Journees Entieres Dans le Arbres
The Pirates of Penzance
Legend
H.M.S. Pinafore
The Runner Stumbles
Something's Afoot

Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.

[judy_in_disguise]

re: When you were born...#8

Posted: 8/27/04 at 10:44am

Notable 84-85 shows....
Oedipus Rex
Death of a Salesman
Much Ado About Nothing
Cyrano de Bergerac
The Three Musketeers
The King and I
Biloxi Blues
Leader of the Pack
Big River
Arms and the Man

cool :) I've been in productions of Oedipus, Much Ado, and Leader of the Pack. Hehe.

[The Grovers Corners Yenta]

re: When you were born...#9

Posted: 8/27/04 at 10:46am

1957 Volpone Intermezzo A Hole In The Head Brigadoon A Moon For The Misbegotten Ziegfeld Follies of 1957 Le Misanthrope I am old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Friends are the people you chose as family."....Me.

[Millie42]

re: When you were born...#10

Posted: 8/27/04 at 10:48am

Thanks Judy! I didnt even need to look up my year. I figured someone like you or FF would get there before me.

Not a bad collection...

"My friends have made the story of my life." -Helen Keller

[NYadgal]

re: When you were born...#11

Posted: 8/27/04 at 11:09am

just a few -

The Sound of Music
West Side Story
Bye Bye Birdie...

"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."

[POLisPOL]

re: When you were born...#12

Posted: 8/27/04 at 11:10am

in their first run nyadgal?

Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!

[NYadgal]

re: When you were born...#13

Posted: 8/27/04 at 11:10am

ouch.

yes.

It was the 1959-1960 season.

"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."

Updated On: 8/27/04 at 11:10 AM

[POLisPOL]

re: When you were born...#14

Posted: 8/27/04 at 11:11am

wow...

Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!

[NYadgal]

re: When you were born...#15

Posted: 8/27/04 at 11:13am

I'll take that as a compliment...

"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."

[POLisPOL]

re: When you were born...#16

Posted: 8/27/04 at 11:14am

it is, for sure!
and btw! I love that picture of Audrey!
she's my goddess since I've been 14

Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!

[NYadgal]

re: When you were born...#17

Posted: 8/27/04 at 11:15am

mine, too.

She's a classic!

"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."

[aspiringguy715]

re: When you were born...#18

Posted: 8/27/04 at 12:24pm

Mandy Patinkin in Concert: "Dress Casual"
Shenandoah
Freddie Jackson: Up Close & Personal
Sweeney Todd
Orpheus Descending
Mastergate
Dangerous Games
The Secret Rapture
Love Letters
Sid Caesar & Company
Meet Me in St. Louis
3 Penny Opera
Prince of Central Park
Grand Hotel
A Few Good Men
Gypsy
The Circle
Artist Descending a Staircase
The Victor Borge Holiday Show on Broadway
The Tenth Man
City of Angels
Peter, Paul & Mary "A Holiday Celebration"
Tru
The Merchant of Venice
Stephanie Mills Comes "Home" to Broadway
Don Cossacks
Miss Margarida's Way
Oba Oba '90
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Grapes of Wrath
Lettice and Lovage
Aspects of Love
The Piano Lesson
Truly Blessed
Accomplice
A Change in the Heir
Prelude to a Kiss
Some Americans Abroad
Zoya's Apartment
The Cemetery

YAY! for "Sweeney Todd"

[FindingNamo]

re: When you were born...#19

Posted: 8/27/04 at 1:12pm

"Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter" debuted not too very long before I did, if memory serves. Which explains my lifelong fascination with Orson Bean and Tina Louise.

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[papalovesmambo]

re: when you were born...#20

Posted: 8/27/04 at 1:23pm

this explains so many things, buck white with muhammad ali and donald sutherland opened the day before i did.

r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.

...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty

pray to st. jude

i'm a sonic reducer

he was the gimmicky sort

fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective

[BroadwayDiva]

re: When you were born...#21

Posted: 8/27/04 at 1:24pm

SHOWS OPENING IN 1990
Don Cossacks
Miss Margarida's Way
Oba Oba '90
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Grapes of Wrath
Lettice and Lovage
Aspects of Love
The Piano Lesson
Truly Blessed
Accomplice
A Change in the Heir
Prelude to a Kiss
Some Americans Abroad
Zoya's Apartment
The Cemetery Club
Bugs Bunny on Broadway
Stand-Up Tragedy
The Miser
Jackie Mason: Brand New
Once on This Island
Oh, Kay!
Buddy
Bobby McFerrin's Voicestra on Broadway
Those Were the Days
Six Degrees of Separation
Shadowlands
Fiddler on the Roof
Shogun, The Musical
Peter Pan

I have my books and my poetry to protect me...

[GovernorSlaton]

re: When you were born...#22

Posted: 8/27/04 at 1:24pm

1990-91 season:

Michael Feinstein in Concert: Piano and Voice
Bugs Bunny on Broadway
Stand-Up Tragedy
The Miser
Jackie Mason: Brand New
Once on This Island
Oh, Kay!
Buddy
Bobby McFerrin's Voicestra on Broadway
Those Were the Days
Six Degrees of Separation
Shadowlands
Fiddler on the Roof
Shogun, The Musical
An Evening with Harry Connick Jr. and His Orchestra
Peter Pan
Monster in a Box
La Bête
Mule Bone
Taking Steps
Lost in Yonkers
The Speed of Darkness
The Big Love
Penn & Teller: The Refrigerator Tour
Lucifer's Child
I Hate Hamlet
Miss Saigon
The Secret Garden
Our Country's Good
The Will Rogers Follies

[papalovesmambo]

re: When you were born...#23

Posted: 8/27/04 at 1:34pm

although this makes perfect sense, oh, calcutta! opened the same year as me, too!

r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.

...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty

pray to st. jude

i'm a sonic reducer

he was the gimmicky sort

fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective

[SueleenGay]

re: When you were born...#24

Posted: 8/27/04 at 1:43pm

Arrah-Na-Pogue
Richelieu

It was a very slow season.

PEACE.