A Broadway Time Machine... — Page 2

Patronus, I saw the OBC of Chicago and you are absolutely right -- perfection indeed. One of the 2 or 3 best days of my life!!!

Wow, I am very jealous. That's a memory that I'm sure you'll cherish forever!

Chita, Gwen, Jerry, Ethel - those 4 people ARE Broadway for me.

3 out of 4 in one show. Magical.

Updated On: 10/24/05 at 03:39 PM

I would love to see Showboat on it's opening night. That to me is such a musical theater landmark.

Also I would love to see the original cast of Jesus Christ Superstar!

Updated On: 10/24/05 at 03:47 PM

closing night of Merrily We Roll Along

opening night of Carrie

the record- breaking performance of A Chorus Line

first preview of Hair

and breaking the rule but- ANY performance of Our House (West End) God, I love and miss this show.

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Wow....good answers Rath! I'd second (or third) Laurette Taylor...

Also:

any performance of the original Follies

Call Me Madam the night Ethel threw out the drunk (mentioned by best 12)

Gwen in anything

Maggie in Lettice and Lovage...

I would also love to see the closing night of "Funny Girl," when Streisand came back to play Fanny Brice just one last time...

But I think SHOW BOAT's opening night might take the cake for me now... The idea of seeing a Ziegfeld-produced masterpiece in 1927, with everyone dressed up in their finery to attend... in the day when Broadway was BROADWAY... then sitting down to watch Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan, Charles Winninger, Edna May Oliver, etc. ?

To die for.

But, Rath, experiencing Laurette Taylor's Amanda in GLASS MENAGERIE would also be a Broadway lover's ultimate dream. My mother and father both saw her in it... and I will just have to be content listening to them try to describe it.

Oh, Hell, I can't come up with my own answer to the question! How can I expect any of you to do it?

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peter allen wasn't too good, was he?

and by the way...i've seen 4/5

Updated On: 10/24/05 at 04:53 PM

Any performance of "The Act". It has a smashing score, and it apparently was the height of Liza Minnelli's Broadway career. And God knows we'll never see it again; the book must have been atrocious.

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Along with quite a few of the choices here, I'd like to add:

Bert Lahr in Foxy, 1964 at the Ziegfeld Theatre. One veteran theatergoer told me it received the biggest laugh he's ever heard in over 50 years of theatregoing. (The laugh was for a moment where Bert Lahr, being chased by greedy prospectors, raced across the stage and in his fear, appeared to climb up the proscenium arch of the theatre.)

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Most likely, opening night of RENT on Broadway, not for the cast (because I'll get to see them in the upcoming movie JOY) but to experience that victorious night, especially with the absence of Jonathan Larson.

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AL JOLSON :The man WAS Broadway in the early twentieth century. I would love to see him live and see if he lives up to the legend.

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The show that started it all for me - MISS SAIGON. I'd love to have seen opening night in London.

And Patti Lupone in EVITA.