First Broadway Show?

[cpnchicago]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 5:55pm

Just for fun, what was the first show you ever saw? Mine was Jerome Robbins Broadway (1990). My dad surprised me with a trip to NYC and took me to see it.

[showbiz287]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 5:57pm

first show Phantom of the Opera in Boston 1996
first Broadway show Lion King 1998 I believe

[C is for Company]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 5:57pm

Les Mis, April 18th 2003. Haven't stopped going since.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:00pm

First show- The Wizard of Oz Tour at the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia, January 2, 1998

First real Broadway musical- Lae Miserables Tour at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, March 27 2004

First Broadway Show- Wicked at the Gershwin Theatre, March 26 2005

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:01pm

Rent- January 25, 2005

[Bohemian1232]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:03pm

The Music Man in 2001.

[aspiringactress]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:03pm

42nd Street Revival - I don't remember what year.

[ihearttheatre]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:04pm

Beauty and the Beast- 1996

[Candleshoe2]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:07pm

Hairspray - 2003 (OBC)

[ILoveMyDictionary]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:07pm

I can't remember my very first ever show, it was probobly at a high school somewhere. The first show I saw that was professionaly done was The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged)Can't remember what theatre on the West End of the winter of 2002. My first Broadway show was All Shook Up on July 3rd 2005.
Updated On: 5/24/06 at 06:07 PM

[beenthere]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:13pm

The original Le Cage

[Yero]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:14pm

DRS last weekend.

[Kringas]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:21pm

My parents took me to see Evita in 1981 for my seventh birthday.

[Just_John]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:26pm

umm either BIG, The Sound of Music or CATS.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:28pm

Dreamgirls with Julia McGirt

[Jade]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:30pm

First show: Cats in the West End, 1985
First Broadway show: Rent, 2005

[Overthewall]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:35pm

First Show: Les Miserables 1992
First Broadway Show: Chicago 2001

[best12bars]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:38pm

Well, my parents were both in theatre, so I started going at a very young age.

First show (at least that I remember): Blythe Spirit, with my mom as Ruth. I was 5 years old.

First Broadway tour: "1776" in 1970 or '71 (?). It starred Rex Everhart, George Hearn, Barbara Lang, Pamela Hall, Walter Charles, etc. I was 7 or 8 years old.

But I didn't get around to seeing an actual Broadway show until the '83 Tony-winning revival of "On Your Toes" with Natalia Makarova, Dina Merrill, George S. Irving, Lara Teeter, George de la Pena and Christine Andreas. I remember I cried when the overture started. No joke. Hah! (What a big baby, right???)

And the following night I saw the OBC of "Cats." I actually went on a "theatre bender" that entire trip, and also saw Torch Song Trilogy, Dreamgirls, Agnes of God, Forbidden Broadway, Nine and 42nd Street.

Pure heaven.

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[VeuveClicquot]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:38pm

EVITA in 1980.

[Practically Perfect]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:41pm

Beauty and the Beast - April 1996

Mary P x

[xxnewgirlxx]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:41pm

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying...

with Matthew Broderick, Megan Mullally, Victoria Clark, etc... I don't remember the year offhand...maybe 96? 97?

[lisaspo]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:43pm

First show I saw on Broadway was A Chorus Line... I was around 15, I think, so, that was around '84.

I'm not sure what my first show ever was, but, the first I really remember was the King and I tour in the early 80s with Yul Brynner. And a dinner theater production of Fiddler that scared the crap out of me.

[xoxRogue]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:43pm

Chicago ~ July 9, 2003

[Tag]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:46pm

Most Happy Fella. I think '91-ish

[Parks]

Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:50pm

Avenue Q--March 6th, 2005. Seen it 4 times since--every time I'm in NYC, I make a stop at Avenue Q