First Musical you ever saw?- Page 2

[wonkit]

Posted: 10/9/16 at 10:24pm

The original Flower Drum Song.

[broadwayguy91]

Posted: 10/9/16 at 11:13pm

Spring Awakening

[Jarethan]

Posted: 10/9/16 at 11:26pm

Broadway: Ben Franklin in Paris, not the greatest first live musical

Movies: Gigi, still my favorite movie musical

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 10/10/16 at 12:30am

If we're listing movies too, it was probably the 1999 TV version of ANNIE. or The Sound of Music.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 10/10/16 at 5:35am

My first was MARY, a pre-Broadway tryout of a musical adaptation of MARY OF SCOTLAND starring Inga Swenson and John Cullum, or CALL ME MADAM starring Ethel Merman. Both played the same Fort Lauderdale theater when I was 12.

[Broadway Geek2]

Posted: 10/10/16 at 10:52am

"Hello Dolly!" pre-Broadway at the National Theatre in Washington, DC.  Original Broadway cast including Ms. Channing.

And, yes, I do have tickets to the 2017 revival 

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 10/10/16 at 11:03am

The first movie musical I ever saw was Chitty bang bang or the sound of music. 

[nyc88]

Posted: 10/10/16 at 11:34am

Coco in 1970.  I went with my mom at age 6 or 7.  Only think I remember (assuming it is accurate) was there was a long staircase and she walked down it in white.  When I went to look up the date, I learned that it starred Katherine Hepburn, Andre Previn wrote the music, and Alan J Lerner wrote the book and lyrics. Michael Bennett choreographed and Harold Wheeler did the dance arrangements. Lots of talent.

[Taryn]

Posted: 10/10/16 at 11:54am

The earliest I can remember is seeing a tour of Camelot with Robert Goulet as Arthur.  I think I was around 10 or so.

[mamaleh]

Posted: 10/10/16 at 6:41pm

BAKER STREET on a school trip.

[BroadwayRox3588]

Posted: 10/10/16 at 6:45pm

Either Into the Woods at Buffalo State, or Beauty and the Beast on Broadway. I don't remember which was first.

[aj88]

Posted: 10/11/16 at 7:20am

The first thing I ever saw in live theatre would've been The Nutcracker when I was 4.

The first musical I ever saw was the tour of Hello Dolly starring Carol Channing when I was 6.

And then on my 10th birthday, I saw my first Broadway show which was the original production of Ragtime.

[buhbuhbilly]

Posted: 10/11/16 at 7:51am

I hardly remember it, but I saw THE PIRATE QUEEN in previews on a high school trip to NYC

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 10/11/16 at 12:45pm

MARY, a pre-Broadway tryout of a musical adaptation of MARY OF SCOTLAND starring Inga Swenson and John Cullum

Ummmmm I need to hear this.

[Ado Annie D'Ysquith]

Posted: 10/11/16 at 1:48pm

It was probably Lion King or Beauty and the Beast, but I was super young so I don't remember them.

The first Broadway musical I clearly remember seeing was Wicked on my 8th grade class trip.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 10/11/16 at 2:33pm

First ever: The Pajama Game - Theatre Under the Stars, Houston, TX 1975

First Broadway musical: Les Miserables 1988

First West End musical: The (New) Rocky Horror Show 1999

[Finch]

Posted: 10/11/16 at 2:42pm

"The  Music Man" -- Preston, Cook, Kelton, Hodges, Wolfington, the original cast.  Last row in the orchestra on the left.  It was the start of many, many more shows on Broadway for me.  The show and the trip to NY was part of a 15th birthday present for me from me.

[Pit Monger]

Posted: 10/13/16 at 11:45pm

A High School production of "Hello Dolly" at 11 or 12, the National Touring company of "Jesus Christ Superstar" early in high school and finally on Broadway during a school trip the summer of 1977 "Annie", "I Love My Wife" & "Chicago". 

[10086sunset]

Posted: 10/14/16 at 8:37am

Miss Saigon, OBC, 1991

[LarryD2]

Posted: 10/14/16 at 9:45am

My One and Only during my first trip to NYC, July 1983. On the same trip, I saw 42nd Street, You Can't Take It With You, Agnes of God, A Chorus Line, and the revival of Mame.

[whatacharacter]

Posted: 10/14/16 at 10:52am

Whistle Down the Wind in it's Pre-notgoingtoBroadway tryout at the National Theatre in DC with Davis Gaines.

[AHLiebross]

Posted: 10/16/16 at 1:04am

Other than kiddie theater shows, my first musical was "Carnival," on Broadway with Mel Ferrer and Susan Watson (who replaced Anna Maria Alberghetti). I was seven years old and blown away. Maybe it was the beginning of my "Phantom" obsession -- I recently saw "Carnival" again, and realized that the stories are similar, except that "Carnival" has a happy ending.

Audrey

[ARTc3]

Posted: 10/16/16 at 1:14am

Carnival, staring Liza Minnelli at The Paper Mill Playhouse. It blew me away. My first Broadway musical was Hello Dolly starring Pearl Bailey. Pretty amazing start.

[nycward]

Posted: 10/16/16 at 1:45am

Wow. Okay. Was raised in New York and began seeing Broadway shows back in high school. My first show was The Roar Of The Greasepaint with Anthony Newley. It absolutely captivated my theatre lovers heart and I have never forgotten "Who Can I Turn To." I've never seen anyone try to revive the show anywhere, but I guess because it is so stylized, it feels a bit of it's time in the late 60's. A great memory that I'm smiling about as I write this post. 

[SweetLips]

Posted: 10/16/16 at 1:54am

Bye Bye Birdie-Brisbane/Australia-I was 15, impressionable, growing and about to break loose.

Updated On: 10/18/16 at 01:54 AM