Best Matinee+Evening Performance Combination
Best Matinee+Evening Performance Combination
SahDu
Leading Actor Joined: 3/22/05
#0Best Matinee+Evening Performance Combination
Posted: 5/4/05 at 7:46pm
Okay, so heres the question. What are the best shows you have seen in combination at matinee then evening?
For me, this past August, I was able to catch the matinee of Avenue Q at 2:00 and then hit up Wicked that night at 8:00. Pretty good day... both fabulous shows. I loved every minute. What's yours?
Updated On: 2/15/14 at 07:46 PM
#1re: Best Matinee+Evening Performance Combination
Posted: 5/4/05 at 7:46pm
I've never done this, but I want to. I always wanted it to be RENT and AIDA... but I suppose I can't really do that anymore. 
jjdude2000
Broadway Star Joined: 12/1/04
#2re: Best Matinee+Evening Performance Combination
Posted: 5/4/05 at 7:47pm
dont do that to yourself Emcee!!!!
You can see RENT and Chitty....
Grace: I just gave a quarter to a homeless man. I think it was Johnny Depp.
#3re: Best Matinee+Evening Performance Combination
Posted: 5/4/05 at 8:15pmI've only done this once, a little over two years ago. I saw Les Miserables for the matinee and La Boheme at night (with Peter Lockyer as Rodolfo!!!)
Ladyofthe Lake
Leading Actor Joined: 1/1/05
#4re: Best Matinee+Evening Performance Combination
Posted: 5/4/05 at 8:18pm
I've only had one shot at doing that, but it was a pretty darn good one from my POV..."Spamalot" matinee and "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" in the evening.
Definitely one of my better days!
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#5re: Best Matinee+Evening Performance Combination
Posted: 5/4/05 at 8:21pm
-- Angels in America: Millenium and Perestroika
-- Nicholas Nickelby
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
#6re: Best Matinee+Evening Performance Combination
Posted: 5/4/05 at 8:24pm
jj, you're right!! Wonderful idea!
I can't fall in love with this show. I don't need another mediocre musical love.
::skips away singing::
Luckydave14
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/04
#7re: Best Matinee+Evening Performance Combination
Posted: 5/4/05 at 8:42pmI saw a Little Shop of Horrors matinee and then a Chicago evening performance in August last summer.
andyf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#8re: Best Matinee+Evening Performance Combination
Posted: 5/4/05 at 8:50pm
Certainly not the best combination, but definitely the weirdest I've done...
Doubt in the afternoon, Spamalot at night.
The one that made the most sense was probably Good Vibrations matinee and then All Shook Up at night.
And if I didn't hate RENT, I'd probably say the best combination I've done was RENT matinee and Q at night, but alas...
Andrew, tonight isn't about you! It isn't even about me!!! - [FD]
Updated On: 5/4/05 at 08:50 PM
#9re: Best Matinee+Evening Performance Combination
Posted: 5/4/05 at 8:54pmLast time i did it was all shock at 2 pm and hairspray at 8pm.
#10re: Best Matinee+Evening Performance Combination
Posted: 5/4/05 at 8:57pm
Les Miserables matinee, Kiss Me Kate in the evening. THE most awesome day ever. It was for my 12th birthday, I was in Broadway Heaven!!!
~And let us try, before we die, to make some sense of life~
Updated On: 5/4/05 at 08:57 PM
andyf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#11re: Best Matinee+Evening Performance Combination
Posted: 5/4/05 at 8:59pmOoooh I just remembered, I did Altar Boyz matinee and then Q evening one Sunday. That was a good time.
Andrew, tonight isn't about you! It isn't even about me!!! - [FD]
#12re: Best Matinee+Evening Performance Combination
Posted: 5/4/05 at 9:02pm
This past weekend, I saw a matinee of Spamalot and the evening performance of Spelling Bee. My stomach muscles ached the next day from laughing all day.
In between, had a phenomenal meal at Blue Chili.
The truly beautiful should be lawfully restricted from wearing clothing; and the truly butt-ugly should be lawfully mandated from going naked.
#13re: Best Matinee+Evening Performance Combination
Posted: 5/4/05 at 9:02pm
i have two:
Caroline or Change/Assassins
Pacific Overtures/White Chocolate
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#14re: Best Matinee+Evening Performance Combination
Posted: 5/4/05 at 9:06pmgood hairspray, all shook up ive also done chicago and then rent. i wanted to do lsoh then hairspray. i might do hairspray/ave q this summer
"gimme a bottle of bourbon and half a chicken and i'll conquer the world!"
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#15re: Best Matinee+Evening Performance Combination
Posted: 5/4/05 at 9:08pm
I did Chicago and Wicked
and I did Rent and Into the Woods
They were both good days, the latter being completely free 
#16re: Best Matinee+Evening Performance Combination
Posted: 5/4/05 at 9:22pm
Brooklyn the Musical 2:00pm
Brooklyn the Musical 7:00/8:00pm
#17re: Best Matinee+Evening Performance Combination
Posted: 5/4/05 at 9:23pm
Rent and AIDA is THE way to go. Too bad it's no longer possible
awkward.
"I think it was the Korean tour or something. They were all frickin' asian!" -Zoran912
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#18re: Best Matinee+Evening Performance Combination
Posted: 5/4/05 at 9:31pmLast time I did that was in January, a Bug and 'Night, Mother combination. It was...draining.
#19re: Best Matinee+Evening Performance Combination
Posted: 5/4/05 at 9:32pmEmcee, this past August I saw Caren as Mimi in the RENT matinee then saw Aida later that night with Deborah and Adam. That day will never be forgotten!
#20re: Best Matinee+Evening Performance Combination
Posted: 5/4/05 at 9:35pm
::has nostalgic thoughts::
::tear::
Ah, well. AIDA can't be replaced, but now I have that damned flyin' car!
#21re: Best Matinee+Evening Performance Combination
Posted: 5/4/05 at 9:39pm
I think I've only done it twice.
The Full Monty/AIDA
AIDA/Final Taboo
I'd say the 2nd one was the best.
*edit* Also did Phantom/Oklahoma. Not a good day.
I hung out with Cheyenne Jackson in his dressing room waayyyyyy before he tickled D2. "unleash the girly"
Updated On: 5/4/05 at 09:39 PM
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Sluggy
Featured Actor Joined: 7/15/04
#22re: Best Matinee+Evening Performance Combination
Posted: 5/4/05 at 9:46pm
July 1999 -
Mom thought it was too humid to walk around much, so we did TKTS for matinee of Cathy Rigby in Peter Pan. Good dinner at Charley O's (back when it was in Shubert Alley).
Spent evening watching Judi Dench in "Amy's View" from 2nd row, then got to talk to her in her dressing room afterward. Still ranks as one of my all-time favorite days!
Oh, and Focusing, your icon is cracking me up!
"Which way do you want these pleats turned?"
"Toward Mecca."
Updated On: 5/4/05 at 09:46 PM
Jim2
Understudy Joined: 11/9/03
#23re: Best Matinee+Evening Performance Combination
Posted: 5/4/05 at 9:57pm
Titanic 2:00 matinee/The Life 8:00 evening
Wicked 2:00 matinee/Vanessa Williams Christmas Concert at the Palace 8:00 evening
Razz77
Broadway Star Joined: 11/22/04
#24re: Best Matinee+Evening Performance Combination
Posted: 5/4/05 at 9:58pm
This is the story of my life - I try to squeeze in as much as possible all the time...I think some of the best combinations I've experienced are:
Avenue Q/Wonderful Town
Golda's Balcony/Pacific Overtures
....I also managed to do The Rivals/Baltimore Waltz/Whoopi all in one day, which was quite intense (Whoopi had a 10:00 show when it was running)
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