Swing Joined: 2/23/07
First Broadway Show - Starlight Express in 1987
Also saw Les Miserables (with Gary Morris), original cast of Into the Woods, Coastal Disturbances (with Tim Daly and Annette Bening), and one of the last casts of A Chorus Line. I loved it all, but remembering not being that impressed with A Chorus Line.
I saw a non-equity production of A Chorus Line that had more heart than the one I saw on Broadway in 1987.
First show - "Cats" national tour stop in Davenport, IA sometime in 1998.
First Broadway Show - Grey Gardens, Jan 5th, 2007
~Jacob.
Play: "A Naked Girl on the Appian Way" - 3rd December 2005
Musical: "Hairspray" - 4th December 2005
My first trip to Broadway was in 1996 and I had the privelage to see Jerry Lewis as Appelgate in "Damn Yankees!" From that day forward my dream role has been Joe in the show, and have since wanted nothing more than to be on Broadway. It's amazing that all it takes is being inspired by one show and now 11yrs later, i'm moving to NYC in AUG! WOW! Broadway inspires indeed!
Not sure if I posted or not...
First Bway Show: ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, September 25, 1999; 8 pm.
First show... my mom did a whole bunch of community theatre, I don't remember which was my first but I saw one when I was two apparently.
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
FIRST SHOW ON BROADWAY: Wicked, December 2005
(Living on the other side of the pond, it's hard for me to get over often...)
FIRST SHOW EVER (Probably West End): Not sure, probably Les Mis or Cats (ugh), it would have been 1993 or 4, I would have only been about 2 or 3 years old. Haven't stopped since. I've now seen Les Mis about 6 times. Unfortunatley, I've seen Cats about 3 times.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
The first show I ever saw on Broadway was Irving Berlin's MISS LIBERTY in the Fall of 1949. The show starred Eddie Albert, Allyn McLerie and Mary McCarty, and introduced the now-standard song "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor." The choreography was by a young Jerome Robbins.
Stand-by Joined: 1/3/07
Cats,
DreamGirls Revival
1/2 of Carrie- brother's friend's cousin was in it.
Into the Woods
After a break.....I saw Beauty with Kerry Butler
Understudy Joined: 7/15/06
hmm, saw Les Miserables in Sacramento in April 2003. I was 11. Valjean was an Understudy.
I'm going to NYC this summer with my family (!!!!!) and can't wait to see as many shows as possible. And not just Broadway shows, but off Broadway, off-off Broadway, and anything I can get to.
Sad thing: The Producers is closing before I go. That was the one I wanted to see the most. Depressed.
First show: Grease tour in 1997
First Broadway show: Phantom of the Opera in '98.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
"You know I can't hear you when the Waters's running", way back when. Don't ask.
"The Magic Show", won the tickets in a sales contest my first real job.
Miss Saigon. The 1st show I bought tickets on my own, and have been hooked ever since!
Beauty & the Beast, I don't remember exactly what year seeing as I was quite young,
But I saw it twice during its origional run.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
First show: Beauty and The Beast, Shubert Theatre, 1995
First Broadway Show: The Boy From Oz, June 10, 2004
Broadway Star Joined: 1/28/06
First Show: The Joesph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat tour with Donny Osmond, lol.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
Shenandoah at the Mark Hellinger around 1977. I had listened to the cast album endlessley. When I saw the show, I had the cast album in my head and didn't understand why the vocal inflections weren't the same (obviously I was seeing the replacement cast not the OBC).
OLIVER, the original, I went backstage to interview Davey Jones (yeah, the Monkee) for my high school newspaper.
An urchin who looked about 7 peeked in the dressing room and said:
"David has a hickie on his prickie!"
ah Broadway.
Beauty and the Beast
Understudy Joined: 2/10/07
Understudy Joined: 10/12/06
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