First Musical- Page 2
First Musical
ikmbway
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/05
#25re: First Musical
Posted: 4/1/05 at 10:56pmi havent been a broadway fanatic as you can tell by what musical im going to say so what got me into broadway is Wicked although it started when i had front row seats to mamma mia dont ask but wicked changed my life and RENT is right behind it
whatyouown223
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/4/05
milliefan1922
Swing Joined: 5/11/04
#27re: First Musical
Posted: 4/1/05 at 11:22pmMine was the tour of Beauty and the Beast...I was amazed.
La Vie Boheme
Leading Actor Joined: 1/7/05
#28re: First Musical
Posted: 4/1/05 at 11:23pm
Lion King and Aida
Saw 4 shows my first trip to Bway, those were my two favorite and I really wanted to go into theatre because of those shows.
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stylinbohemian
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/24/05
#29re: First Musical
Posted: 4/1/05 at 11:57pm
musical - bye bye birdie
broadway - Fame on 42nd st
#31re: First Musical
Posted: 4/2/05 at 12:02am"The Wiz" - Original Broadway Cast.
"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"
redmustang
Broadway Star Joined: 5/14/03
#33re: First Musical
Posted: 4/2/05 at 12:17amMine was sound of music. I watched it religously growing up, still do. Mary Poppins was a big one too. Not many five year olds going crazy for Julie Andrews flicks.
#34re: First Musical
Posted: 4/2/05 at 10:37amDefinitely Rent. I remember getting the CD for Christmas one year and in less than a week I knew all the lyrics. It was just so passionate and raw and....man I'm getting chills now lol.
~~**I've had a knack from way back of breaking the rules once I learned the games**~~
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#36re: First Musical
Posted: 4/2/05 at 10:46amI was in the hospital for surgery when I was five, and they were showing the Sound Of Music on TV. My mom wanted to watch it, and it was late at night. I'll never forget it, Julie Andrews has been a favorite of mine ever since. For my 6th bday, she got me the vhs of it and I watched it about 10 times in that day alone!
~And let us try, before we die, to make some sense of life~
Therese
Broadway Star Joined: 1/2/05
#37re: First Musical
Posted: 4/2/05 at 12:42pm"The Music Man," the film version with Robert Preston & Shirley Jones. I wanted to live in River City, Iowa! When I was 8, I saved up my allowance to buy the movie soundtrack album (first soundtrack or cast recording I ever bought for myself). In grade school, like maybe once a year, we could order paperback books from a catalog (I think it was from Scholastic?), and I bought the "novelization" of "Music Man" with photos from the movie (I was probably 10).
"In my own little corner..."
#38re: First Musical
Posted: 4/2/05 at 12:43pmLes Miserables.
awkward.
"I think it was the Korean tour or something. They were all frickin' asian!" -Zoran912
#39re: First Musical
Posted: 4/2/05 at 1:20pmLes Miserables. It was my mom's favorite musical since she was 20 or so, so it had always been playing in my house. I watched the Les Mis concert video a lot when I was 7 or 8, and sang Castle on a Cloud to the point where I can't even listen to it anymore. lol. I finally saw it for the first time on broadway when I was 13, and again on tour when I was 16. So amazing. Definitely made me get into music and theater.
FabalaCohen
Broadway Star Joined: 10/30/04
#40re: First Musical
Posted: 4/2/05 at 1:24pm
Recording was "Titantic," and the very next year I saw Phantom up in Toronto.
I've been hooked ever since.
"During this performance, please feel free to let your cell phones and pagers ring willy-nilly. However, do remember that there are heavily-armed knights on stage and you might well be dragged up and impaled."
(Pre-curtain announcement at the new Broadway musical Monty Python's Spamalot)
dancersmom2
Stand-by Joined: 1/9/05
#41re: First Musical
Posted: 4/2/05 at 2:42pm
On TV, it was Mary Martin in Peter Pan. I thought that was the most magical thing I had ever seen!
The Sound of Music was my favorite childhood movie. My grandmother thought I looked like Gretl and I imagined I was.
A Chorus Line wasn't my first stage musical, but it should have been as it hooked me on theater for life.
#42re: First Musical
Posted: 4/2/05 at 3:33pm
annie and peter pan
i watched both those movies like crazy and annie was the first proffesional touring play i ever saw...at least that i remember...if you dont co unt peter rabit ahha
#43re: First Musical
Posted: 4/2/05 at 3:42pmrent no doubt about it.
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
#44re: First Musical
Posted: 4/2/05 at 3:43pm
the first musical i saw was the king and i when i was 7
made me want to be on the stage from the first note of the overture
"No two shows are alike in the making. Each show is a living
piece of your life in a small unreal world with its own character
and integrity; its own new set of memorable experiences and
incredible happenings. You begin to love and adapt to its strangeness.
Dreams harden into substance. Values come into focus. You wish
it would never end. The dream world vanishes like mist before a
rising sun; part of you vanishes with it. And back you land in the
real world with a thud- fogged, uneasy, jittery, difficult to get
along with. There is only one cure. A new show. A new, small
unreal world; new visions, experiences, incredible happenings.
Again you love it, adapt to it, wish it would never end.
But end it does. Another part of you vanishes.
That's show business."-Anonymous
#45re: First Musical
Posted: 4/2/05 at 3:58pmThe Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan, Mary Poppins, and Annie. I can't remember which was first, but I was 3 at the time that I saw them all.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
#46re: First Musical
Posted: 4/2/05 at 4:20pmA Chorus Line...
Happy, smile! Sad, frown! Use the corresponding face with the corresponding emotion! - Kate (Meg Ryan), French Kiss
#47re: First Musical
Posted: 4/2/05 at 4:22pmkiss of the spider woman
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
#48re: First Musical
Posted: 4/2/05 at 5:41pmThe "Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat" movie got me obsessed with musicals and the Rent OBCR is definatly the one recording I couldn't live without.
QtKt
Leading Actor Joined: 9/15/04
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