Posted: 5/10/17 at 10:32pm
Ever love a show so much, after it closed you think about it every now and then, and get sad you'll never get to see it again? I know it may make me seem weird, but for me that show is Gentlemens Guide.
Posted: 5/10/17 at 10:36pm
I miss the Golden Age of our theatre. The real and only one.
And that makes me sad.
Posted: 5/10/17 at 10:46pm
You've been sad a long time A8. SAD!
I really really miss Fun Home.
Posted: 5/10/17 at 10:52pm
I second Fun Home. I really miss it.
Posted: 5/10/17 at 10:56pm
Hedwig and the Deaf West Revival of Spring Awakening. Both shows meant a lot to me and helped me through some personal rough times. I miss them dearly.
Posted: 5/10/17 at 11:40pm
The Drowsy Chaperone.
Guilty pleasure answer: Newsies.
Posted: 5/10/17 at 11:44pm
Hedwig.
Makes me want to cry. Thank goodness for the movie.
Posted: 5/10/17 at 11:47pm
They're polar opposites... but Hedwig and Honeymoon in Vegas. Sigh...
Posted: 5/11/17 at 12:57am
This will be me when Amelie closes.
Posted: 5/11/17 at 1:12am
The original Les Miserables. Rent. If Great Comet were in any other theater, I would have seen it already. But I know it will be sad to see the Imperial so drastically transformed. Alas, when I found out Oak was joining, that was enough to get me to try it.
As much as I miss rent, it did need to close or have a Les Miz-style mass firing because it was so sloppy toward the end. But I prefer sloppy rent to no rent.
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Posted: 5/11/17 at 1:17am
The recent SITPWG - seeing it 8x now doesn't seem like enough.
And Legally Blonde and Xanadu because they were fun, breezy shows you could watch over and over again without much effort.
Posted: 5/11/17 at 4:28am
The Mark Rylance Twelfth Night.
Posted: 5/11/17 at 7:19am
Rylance's 'Twelfth Night' is available on DVD.
I would love to see the original La Cage aux Folles again.
Posted: 5/11/17 at 7:35am
Passing Strange. I miss it and Daniel Breaker's performance so much every time I think about it that it's almost difficult for me to listen to the score! (Mary! I know)
Posted: 5/11/17 at 7:45am
In The Heights, Legally Blonde, Fun Home, Matilda, The Color Purple
Posted: 5/11/17 at 7:48am
No. One of live theatre's great beauties is its ephemeral quality - no performance will ever happen exactly the same way a second time. It's your special experience, that you can replay in your mind whenever you like.
What I find sad is a show that's merely a machine, replicated perfectly night after night.
Posted: 5/11/17 at 7:55am
^My thoughts exactly. What I cherish most is the memories I have of the experience. I've certainly been sad to see shows close....but not overly so....and never in a "forever" sort of way.
Posted: 5/11/17 at 8:00am
The London production of Love Never Dies.
Posted: 5/11/17 at 8:09am
Deaf West's Spring Awakening, Falsettos, Hedwig, American Psycho, Pippin, Significant Other
Posted: 5/11/17 at 8:09am
Deaf West's Spring Awakening, Falsettos, Hedwig, American Psycho, Pippin, Significant Other
Posted: 5/11/17 at 9:01am
I don't know that I miss the show itself so much (with cast albums you can try to relive the experience) but I wish you could see a show for the first time again and fall in love with it all over. For me those shows would be Hedwig and Falsettos
