First Broadway Show? — Page 2

#26

re: First Broadway Show?

Posted: 5/24/06 at 6:53pm

POTO in the early 90s.

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#27

re: First Broadway Show?

Posted: 5/24/06 at 7:11pm

Noises Off (Revival)- May of 2002

#28

re: First Broadway Show?

Posted: 5/24/06 at 7:14pm

Kiss of the Spider Woman 1995. I still haven't seen anything better.

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#29

re: First Broadway Show?

Posted: 5/24/06 at 7:14pm

Phantom, in 96 I believe.

#30

re: First Broadway Show?

Posted: 5/24/06 at 7:16pm

rocky horror show in previews- school trip
...unfortunately my grandma would only pay for one show that year, and the next one offered was The Producers, also in previews.

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#31

re: First Broadway Show?

Posted: 5/24/06 at 7:16pm

Cats when I was 5 or 6. I haven't stopped going since.

#32

re: First Broadway Show?

Posted: 5/24/06 at 7:18pm

Avenue Q - August 28, 2004. The start of a never-ending addiction.

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#33

re: First Broadway Show?

Posted: 5/24/06 at 7:21pm

Cats 1995

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#34

re: First Broadway Show?

Posted: 5/24/06 at 7:24pm

First Broadway show - Beauty and the Beast in 2000

After that I didn't see one until 2005, but since November of 05 I have seen around 20 shows :)

#35

re: First Broadway Show?

Posted: 5/24/06 at 7:27pm

Beauty and the Beast 2000

#36

re: First Broadway Show?

Posted: 5/24/06 at 7:28pm

Phantom in 94 for a sixth grade class trip...

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#37

re: First Broadway Show?

Posted: 5/24/06 at 7:44pm

Movin' Out. September 23, 2004 during my first ever trip to New York City. I have been hooked ever since, and have seen nearly 30 shows either on or off Broadway.

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#38

re: First Broadway Show?

Posted: 5/24/06 at 7:51pm

First Broadway show - Les Miserables in 2003.

First show - POTO in Toronto, 1997

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#39

re: First Broadway Show?

Posted: 5/24/06 at 7:53pm

Wicked, Sep 14th, 2005.
I have an excuse for the pathetically late start, I'm not American and NY's a 20 hour plane trip away :p

#40

re: First Broadway Show?

Posted: 5/24/06 at 8:00pm

I saw Mamma Mia! in Boston of 2003.
And then saw 42nd Street on Broadway in 2004. I saw Wicked the next day.

#41

re: First Broadway Show?

Posted: 5/24/06 at 8:01pm

First show: Peter Pan, 1990-ish.

First Broadway Tour: also Peter Pan (the FIRST time Cathy Rigby did it), 1991-ish.

First show on Broadway: Kiss Me Kate, January 2000.

#42

re: First Broadway Show?

Posted: 5/24/06 at 8:04pm

Okay,
First Musical: Guys and Dolls-1997 (the obsession starts) :)

.....years pass...the obsession fades....

First Broadway Show: Spamalot-April 28th, 2005 (my 21st Birthday)
The obsession is reborn!!! 25 Broadway shows later...here I am!

#43

re: First Broadway Show?

Posted: 5/24/06 at 8:06pm

First Broadway tour was CATS.
First Broadway show was DAMN YANKEES with Jerry Lewis, I think that was summer of 1994. Also saw LES MISERABLES that same evening.

#44

re: First Broadway Show?

Posted: 5/24/06 at 8:17pm

A Chorus Line (first tour in the 70's...I am old!)

#45

re: First Broadway Show?

Posted: 5/24/06 at 8:18pm

First show: either Cats or Show Boat, both sometime in 1998
First Broadway show: Wicked in December 2004

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#46

re: First Broadway Show?

Posted: 5/24/06 at 8:40pm

Either YAGMCB, Peter Pan, or the Sound of Music.

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#47

re: First Broadway Show?

Posted: 5/24/06 at 8:45pm

The original pre-Broadway tour of Aida

The first show I saw on Broadway was also Aida.

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#48

re: First Broadway Show?

Posted: 5/24/06 at 8:46pm

HIGH SPIRITS starring Beatrice Lillie and Tammy Grimes. 1964.

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#49

re: First Broadway Show?

Posted: 5/24/06 at 8:50pm

TOMMY

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#50

re: First Broadway Show?

Posted: 5/24/06 at 8:51pm

Peter Pan I was 7

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