A Broadway Time Machine...- Page 2

[FOAnatic]

re: A Broadway Time Machine...#25

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

Merman's final performance of GYPSY.

"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde

[cbreining2]

re: A Broadway Time Machine...#26

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]

re: A Broadway Time Machine...#27

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

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

[Patronus]

re: A Broadway Time Machine...#28

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.
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[jasobres]

re: A Broadway Time Machine...#29

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.

"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!" - Jimmy Durante "Breathe from your hoo-hoo." -Kristin Chenoweth

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[safety_in_falsehood]

re: A Broadway Time Machine...#30

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]

re: A Broadway Time Machine...#31

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.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

re: A Broadway Time Machine...#32

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.

[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.

[WithoutATrace]

re: A Broadway Time Machine...#33

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

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

[lildogs]

re: A Broadway Time Machine...#34

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]

re: A Broadway Time Machine...#35

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

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

[best12bars]

re: A Broadway Time Machine...#36

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?

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[Rathnait62]

re: A Broadway Time Machine...#37

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

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

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

[WithoutATrace]

re: A Broadway Time Machine...#38

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

peter allen wasn't too good, was he?

and by the way...i've seen 4/5
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[moowithme111105]

re: A Broadway Time Machine...#39

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]

re: A Broadway Time Machine...#40

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.

I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."

[buffyactsing]

re: A Broadway Time Machine...#41

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.

"This ocean runs more dark and deep than you may think you know...I'll be the fear of the fire at sea." -Marie Christine

[Smaxie]

re: A Broadway Time Machine...#42

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.)

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

[wexy]

re: A Broadway Time Machine...#43

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.

'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'

[rose&lark]

re: A Broadway Time Machine...#44

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.

Q: What is the most weirdest or funniest thing a fan has asked you? Joe Flanigan, Stargate Atlantis: When a fan asked me for help with his grammar. I'm available.

[jasobres]

re: A Broadway Time Machine...#45

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.

"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!" - Jimmy Durante "Breathe from your hoo-hoo." -Kristin Chenoweth

[Enjolras77]

re: A Broadway Time Machine...#46

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.

"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man

[NBC]

re: A Broadway Time Machine...#47

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

"I cried during the Frug." - MC

[WholeLottaShakin]

re: A Broadway Time Machine...#48

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]

re: A Broadway Time Machine...#49

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.

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