Broadway Time Machine August 1996..........

This is just a FUN thread!!!!!!!!!

I want you to imagine you have been sent back to New York August 1995 and you can see 5 shows from the list below, what would be your 5 shows?

Shows from weekly grosses August 1995.

Plymouth A Delicate Balance
St. James A Funny Thing...Forum
Ethel Barrymore An Ideal Husband
Palace Beauty and the Beast
Shubert Big
Ambassador Bring in Da Noise....
Wintergarden Cats
Helen Hayes Defending the Caveman
O'Neill Grease!
Circle in the Square Hughie
Imperial Les Miserables
Booth Love Thy Neighbor
Golden Master Class
Broadway Miss Saigon
Nederlander Rent
Walter Kerr Seven Guitars
Gershwin Show Boat
Virginia Smokey Joe's Cafe
Roundabout Summer and Smoke
Minskoff Sunset Boulevard
Neil Simon The King and I
Majestic The Phantom of the Opera
Marquis Victor/Victoria

Updated On: 7/7/09 at 11:20 AM

If I went back to 1995, the only thing I'd do is give myself a firm reminder not to throw away any of the Spice Girls stuff I will start accumulating in a year's time.

OK so on this list i also saw Beauty And The Beast, Forum and Big
I walked out of Bring In Da noise and fell in the street begging for a headache pill!

I've seen Forum- but not live... great fun!
Big- love a train wreck
Victor/Victoria- especially during Liza's stint!!!
Sunset Boulevard- it was a spectacle even if it didn't all work
Delicate Balance- love some Albee

Miss Saigon (Have never seen)
Big (Like the cast recording)
Sunset Boulevard (Only seen the scaled down revival, would be good to see how it was on a big scale)
Rent (Original Cast :)
A Funny Thing...Forum (Well it was either this or Cats).

Oh yea and of course saw, 'Rent'.
Easy to forget.

Saw it enough in town.
I've never been one to see a show on Broadway just cos it played London or even vice versa.

Beauty and The Beast hands down!

Followed by Sunset Boulevard

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Forum (1st choice Whoopi, 2nd Nathan)
Victor/Victoria (1st choice Julie, 2nd Liza)
Rent (cos I never seen it)
The King and I (we had this discussion last night)

Not sure I need a fourth but it would probably be a transfer like Sunset, or maybe Masterclass.

ooo! i'll add Victor/Victoria to my list...always been one of my secret loves!

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Suprised so many of you loved beauty and the beast so much, I thought it just be me!

A Delicate Balance. I saw nearly all of those shows, but I regretted not seeing this production.

I thoroughly enjoyed the Broadway production of Big. It was the tour that was hideously awful. If I could see only one of them again, I'm not sure what it would be. Donna Murphy and Lou Diamond Phillips were magical in King and I. Betty Buckley was a force to be reckoned with in Sunset Boulevard. Patti delivered one of the most engaging performances I've ever seen in a play in Master Class (only to be surpassed by Janet McTeer in A Doll's House the following year, marking my favorite female performance in a play). The original cast of Rent was so iconic (and incomparable to any of the replacement casts), I saw them three times the summer they won the Tony simply so I could remember the music and the performances (the recording had yet to be issued). Ann Duquesnay was the cherry on top of a unique and historically important new series of vignettes tracing African American heritage through dance and music in Bring in Da Noise/Bring in Da Funk. The one major disappointment was Julie Andrews in Victor/Victoria. Luckily, I went back and saw Liza in the show who breathed some energy and life back into the character.

Hughie is not a great play, but I attended the final dress rehearsal as I was studying at Circle in the Square at the time and watching Pacino perform was like witnessing an acting master class. He was riveting.

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