A Broadway Time Machine...- Page 2

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 10/24/05 at 3:18pm

Merman's final performance of GYPSY.

[cbreining2]

Posted: 10/24/05 at 3:20pm

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!!!

[Sant]

Posted: 10/24/05 at 3:32pm

I'd definitely want to see the original Broadway cast of CHICAGO do the show.

[Patronus]

Posted: 10/24/05 at 3:39pm

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

[jasobres]

Posted: 10/24/05 at 3:46pm

I would see Wayne Brady in Chicago, but if you would like a show from the very past, I would probably want to see either the original cast of Fiddler or the cast that my mother saw with Bette Midler in her debut as Tzeitel.

Better yet, I would see A Chorus Line or Les Miz. I already saw the latter, but I was very young, so I had a lot of trouble understanding it.

Updated On: 10/24/05 at 03:46 PM

[safety_in_falsehood]

Posted: 10/24/05 at 3:47pm

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

[Gothampc]

Posted: 10/24/05 at 3:51pm

I'd like to go back and see any of the shows I saw as a teenager. Just to see if my opinion was any different.

I'd like to see the original "Oliver" to see Georgia Brown at work.

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 10/24/05 at 3:56pm

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.

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 10/24/05 at 3:57pm

Let me guess Rath: the three you saw were Shogun, Nick & Nora, and The Red Shoes?

[lildogs]

Posted: 10/24/05 at 4:05pm

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...

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 10/24/05 at 4:09pm

The Original casts of Company, Follies and A Little Night Music.

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/24/05 at 4:44pm

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?

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 10/24/05 at 4:49pm

Almost, Trace. Replace THE RED SHOES with LEGS DIAMOND.

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 10/24/05 at 4:53pm

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

[moowithme111105]

Posted: 10/24/05 at 5:41pm

IDINA IN WICKED!!!!!





ok, i'm just joking, i would love to see A Chorus Line, becuse alot of famous broadway actors got there start in that show, and the music is so good.

[roquat]

Posted: 10/24/05 at 6:07pm

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.

[buffyactsing]

Posted: 10/24/05 at 6:16pm

Donna Murphy in The King and I...I saw but but it kills because I was 11 and can barely remember it...except that I loved it.

[Smaxie]

Posted: 10/24/05 at 6:20pm

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.)

[wexy]

Posted: 10/24/05 at 7:45pm

April 14th 1865 Off Broadway "Our American Cousin" at the Ford Theatre.

Sic Semper Tyrannis, Booth, the assasination.
Can ask Mrs Lincoln what she thought of the play.

[rose&lark]

Posted: 10/24/05 at 8:03pm

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.

[jasobres]

Posted: 10/25/05 at 12:33pm

Oh, I would also love to see the most recent Broadway revival of Guys and Dolls when Nathan Lane and either Peter Gallagher or Tom Wopat were in it.

[Enjolras77]

Posted: 10/25/05 at 1:07pm

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.

[NBC]

Posted: 10/25/05 at 1:20pm

I can't pick just one...so here are some of my top picks in roughly chronological order

Carol Channing in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Anthony Perkins in Tea & Sympathy

Gwen in Can-Can

Opening night of West Side Story

The original cast of The Rocky Horror Show

The original cast of Chicago

Dancin' circa July 1979, on a night when everyone was in (except maybe James Dunne...)

The first Sweet Charity revival, on a night when Debbie Allen was out and Bebe had to fill in...

Les Liaisons Dangereuses with Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan

[WholeLottaShakin]

Posted: 10/25/05 at 8:07pm

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.

[Piazzaslight]

Posted: 10/25/05 at 8:42pm

Hmmm...

Sunday in the Park with George
Song and Dance
Carrie
Dinner at Eight
42nd Street
West Side Story

Too many to list.