Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?

[C is for Company]

Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?#0

Posted: 1/9/06 at 2:04am

Has anyone put in their birthdate in IBDB to see what shows opened on that date in history? Anybody have any interesting ones?

5/8- A funny thing happened to me on the way to the forum

Basically the only good one for me.

Updated On: 1/9/06 at 02:04 AM

[Lorelai]

re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?#1

Posted: 1/9/06 at 10:38am

I'm bored so I just checked mine...

Fiddler on the Roof, A Touch of the Poet, On the Town and Sweet Charity are the ones of note.

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[Fosse76]

re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?#2

Posted: 1/9/06 at 10:41am

Miss Saigon either opened or had its first preview (West End) on my birthday, I don't remember which (I think it was the first preview)

[liotte]

re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?#3

Posted: 1/9/06 at 10:47am

Phantom of the Opera

[RENTingFAME]

re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?#4

Posted: 1/9/06 at 11:04am

5/10 - nothing too notable opened, but Fred Astaire was born that day.

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[Eastwickian]

re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?#5

Posted: 1/9/06 at 11:16am

4th May - 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and The Look of Love. I am in such illustrious company...

Updated On: 1/9/06 at 11:16 AM

[Nothatsmrt]

re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?#6

Posted: 1/9/06 at 11:19am

Me and My Girl...August 10.

On another note, I share a birthday with Antonio Banderas. YUM!

[wowobball2000]

re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?#7

Posted: 1/9/06 at 11:36am

7/16- Sweeney Todd

"Will the world remember you when you fall?" Les Miserables

[jacobtsf]

re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?#8

Posted: 1/9/06 at 11:38am

The revival of 1776.

David walked into the valley With a stone clutched in his hand He was only a boy But he knew someone must take a stand There will always be a valley Always mountains one must scale There will always be perilous waters Which someone must sail -Into the Fire Scarlet Pimpernel

[cathywellerstein]

re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?#9

Posted: 1/9/06 at 11:43am

liotte! we have the same birthday!!

phantom of the opera

[dramaparoxysm23]

re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?#10

Posted: 1/9/06 at 11:47am

Nothing too interesting.

Mary's Ankle 08/06/1917
The Supporting Cast 08/06/1981
If you ever leave me...I'm going with you! 08/06/2001

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[Dre2387]

re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?#11

Posted: 1/9/06 at 12:30pm

how do you check it? in the opening night search? (it's probably really simple and I'm just being stupid, but I really can't find it.)

<--- the set of A Midsummer Night's Dream that I was assistant stage manager for during the 2007 season at the STNJ outdoor stage.

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[Enjolras77]

re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?#12

Posted: 1/9/06 at 12:39pm

Wow..two great juggernauts in theatre history opened on my birthday 8/9. The first one was Divorce in 1871 and the second was the amazing production of the show Tangerine in 1921.

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[apdarcey]

re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?#13

Posted: 1/9/06 at 12:48pm

shenandoah and the recent revival of frankie and johnny...

[Magdalene]

re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?#14

Posted: 1/9/06 at 1:00pm

nothing interesting on mine...

"NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!"

[BroadwayBaby21]

re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?#15

Posted: 1/9/06 at 1:09pm

4/21/88

Macbeth opened on my actual birthday
and Annie opened in '77, and Inherit the Wind opened in '55

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[iluvtheatertrash]

re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?#16

Posted: 1/9/06 at 1:25pm

Only one worth noting:

On 9/28/1961, PURLIE VICTORIOUS opened.

I do share a birthday with Gregory Jbara which totally rocks, though.

"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman

[ashley0139]

re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?#17

Posted: 1/9/06 at 1:26pm

Flower Drum Song and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife

[brdwaybaby17]

re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?#18

Posted: 1/9/06 at 1:51pm

March 17th... Everything that opened on my birthday failed...
Is that a precursor?

[Dre2387]

re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?#19

Posted: 1/9/06 at 1:56pm

ah, figured it out now.

well, nothing interesting opened on my birthday (Feb. 23)

but I do share my birthday with Peter Fonda and Robert Lopez (who is the brother-in-law to one of my friends at college) so, that;s cool.

<--- the set of A Midsummer Night's Dream that I was assistant stage manager for during the 2007 season at the STNJ outdoor stage.

-Dre- You must remember all the same that at the crux of every game is knowing when it's time to leave the table... And it's important to be artful in your exit. No turning back, you must accept the con is done... It was a ball, it was a blast. And it's a shame it couldn't last. But every chapter has to end, you must agree.
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
There's a special kind of people known as show people. We live in a world full of dreams. Sometimes we're not too certain what's false and what's real. But we're seldom in doubt about what we feel.
~Curtains~
It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to, than I have ever known.
~A Tale of Two Cities ~

[WhatDoINeedWithLove?]

re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?#20

Posted: 1/9/06 at 2:01pm

4/9:

The Social Whirl
Suspect
The Magic and The Loss
The Next President
Kataki
Aaah Oui Genty!
The Ride Down Mt. Morgan



BORING! haha, but I do share my bday with Cynthia Nixon! Granted she was born 19 years earlier!

[EugLoven]

re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?#21

Posted: 1/9/06 at 2:37pm

A lot of things I've never heard of but...

April 11
Miss Saigon
Company
The King and I

Cool enough!
Updated On: 1/9/06 at 02:37 PM

[WithoutATrace]

re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?#22

Posted: 1/9/06 at 2:51pm

Baker Street 2/16/65. And the CD comes out on January 31st!!!

[ByMySide25]

re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?#23

Posted: 1/9/06 at 2:56pm

September 25th:
PORGY & BESS 1976 Revival
TARTUFFE 1977 Revival
EVITA Original Broadway Production
QUILTERS Original Production

Those are the ones I recognized.

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[Mandi Moo]

re: Checked IBDB for opening nights on your birthday?#24

Posted: 1/9/06 at 3:01pm

12/20 - Dreamgirls. Cool times.