A show you wish you had seen

[kristinchenofan570]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 8:03am

What are some shows you wish you had seen before they closed or that closed before you were old enough to see it?

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 8:06am

Passing Strange closed a week before I was scheduled to see it.

Same thing for Xanadu....(I'd already seen it but) had stage tix for my kids. They were disappointed.

I'm sure there were others.

[kristinchenofan570]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 8:08am

I would have loved to see the Apple Tree but I just didn't have a lot of time to when it was playing! Really wish I had made time now. There are probably others but thats the one thats I wish I had seen the most.

[James2]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 10:24am

While many of these were panned, I would still like to see them either because they have actors I like or because I want to say "I saw that."

A Class Act
Sweet Smell of Success
Amour
Dance of the Vampires
Little Shop of Horrors (saw the tour, but I would love to have seen the plant go into the audience)
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks (I want to see Mark Hamill live in something)
King Lear with Christopher Plummer
Assassins
The Frogs
Pacific Overtures
La Cage aux Folles
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Glengarry Glen Ross
The Odd Couple
Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life (one of the performances with Dick Van Dyke)
The Pajama Game
The Threepenny Opera (I saw Lincoln Center's video, but I would love to have seen this live)
The Apple Tree
Frost/Nixon
LoveMusik (later into the run; I saw the first preview and found it an overlong mess)
The Ritz
The Homecoming
Macbeth with Patrick Stewart
A Catered Affair
Boeing-Boeing
[title of show]
The Story of My Life

[uncageg]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 10:36am

Merrily We Roll Along (Orig. cast)
Grey Gardens
Gypsy (Lupone)
[tos]
Pillowman (Saw it regionally)
Equus
Road Show
The Little Dog Laughed
Carrie

There are more I am sure

Updated On: 5/26/09 at 10:36 AM

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 11:05am

All of mine are plays -

Streetcar with Jessica Tandy
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf OBC esp Ute Hagen
Hamlet with Richard Burton
Marat/Sade OBC
The Lark OBC esp Julie Harris
The Lion in Winter with Rosemary Harris and Robert Preston
The Rainmaker with Geraldine Page
Sweet Bird of Youth with Geraldine Page and Paul Newman




Updated On: 5/26/09 at 11:05 AM

[kate86]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 11:15am

The Pirate Queen
The Boy of Oz
Xanadu

[BenKaye]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 11:21am

Assassins
Caroline, or Change
Urinetown
Cabaret
See What I Wanna See
Bernarda Alba
In My Life (just for the hell of it)
The Frogs
Pacific Overtures

[Tom's Cat]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 11:33am

The Glass Menagerie - 1945 (starring Laurette Taylor)
West Side Story - 1957
Follies - 1971

[Geridith]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 11:41am

The Wedding Singer
[title of show] << will forever regret it...

[Felm_heart]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 11:46am

Patti LuPone GYPSY! I bought a plane ticket months in advance, but it closed early.

[chenothegood]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 11:47am

The Pirate Queen... i dont care how bad people said it was, i enjoyed the CR! I had tickets for the show two weeks too late!

Funny Girl... with Barbra Streisand! :)

Gypsy or Annie Get Your Gun... with Ethel Merman, just so i can see what all the hype is about her! haha

Wicked - OBC

Grey Gardens

The Wild Party - Lippa... come on i mean Idina, Julia, Brian and Taye all on one stage together?

Last Five Years - Sherie and Norman

[title of show] - I stood infront of the theatre, and then decided to go see the little mermaid instead

Boy I could go on and on, but i'll stop!

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[StageManager2]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 11:48am

EVITA (original Broadway cast). I wasn't born yet.

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 11:51am

HOME SWEET HOMER - 1976
GOT TU GO DISCO - 1979
BRING BACK BIRDIE - 1981
MARLOWE - 1981
MARILYN: AN AMERICAN FABLE - 1983
WIND IN THE WILLOWS - 1985
INTO THE LIGHT - 1986
RAGGEDY ANN - 1986

[katie2]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 12:05pm

Side Show, Ragtime and Gypsy (LuPone)

[Brick]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 12:38pm

DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS

Many more, but this is a recent addition. So, its flame is the brightest.

[jordangirl]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 12:41pm

The only one I'm really kicking myself over missing is Side Show. I'd opted to go to school in the DC area instead of a school here in NYC and didn't know about cheap options for transportation up to NYC to see it.

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 1:09pm

Blackbird at MTC two years ago.

[manic_magic_n2n2]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 1:20pm

Side Show OBC
Wicked, specifically with Julia Murney and again with Stephanie J Block. Love them.
Lippa's The Wild Party
See What I Wanna See
Assassins
The Last Five Years
Songs for a New World
Ragtime (literally anywhere... why haven't I ever seen this show?)
Company
33 Variations (was away at school and just missed it)

[Marianne2]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 2:14pm

Desire Under the Elms
The Story of My Life
A Chorus Line
Into the Woods

[CSonBroadway]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 2:20pm

Grey Gardens and Gypsy with Patti Lupone, or any Rose. I've never seen Gypsy live, and West Side Story OBC

[legallysam]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 2:38pm

Parade (Donmar Warehouse)
A Chrous Line (OBC + Revival)
Xanadu
Miss Saigon
Witches of Eastwick

[TalkinLoud]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 3:07pm

The recent Sunday in the Park revival.

[brandontwin2]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 4:03pm

LuPone Gypsy and Ragtime

[boydowncenter]

Posted: 5/26/09 at 4:05pm

Caroline or Change